Everyone knows much information about the lifestyle of pirates through the movies and the fairytales that Hollywood provides us with. However, are you sure that you have learned everything about them? There are plenty of things you didn’t know about the pirates that lived back in the 17-19th century. Is everything that you know true about the real-life pirates or just a myth? Let’s find out.
Was The Famous Walking The Plank A Myth?
Yes! Pirates didn’t force their prisoners and their enemies to walk the plank. This only happens in movies. However, it did happen in certain occasions, according to a record from a mutiny back in 1788:
“The food, notwithstanding the mortality, was so little, that if ten more days at sea, they should, as the captain and others said, have made the slaves walk the plank, that is, throw themselves overboard, or have eaten those slaves that died,” confessed a surgeon-mate to the House of Commons.