Two Man O'war In Choopy Seas, HMS Beagle And HMS Ganges, Drawn By Lieutenant Later Captain Owen Stanley,

Two man o'war in choopy seas, HMS Beagle and HMS Ganges, drawn by Lieutenant later Captain Owen Stanley, 1827,28 and 41

𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟕𝟐𝟏, 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲. 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭

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There’s a flush to Anne’s cheeks that has nothing to do with the bottle of rum floating its way among the crew. (She’d found her way to some green almost-tobacco-shite and been talked into smoking it almost on a dare.) She has to squint up at Bonnet and spends three entire seconds trying to remember his name. Her head is swimming and there’s a strange, pleasant lightness to her that even has her smiling at him. That should be a sign in and of itself that something’s off.

“Bonn—nah, S…Ssssssssss—nnnn.” Anne makes a face, unaware that she hasn’t strung together a full word yet. Twat suits him, suits most people really, but Izzy’s already using that one. Anne screws one eye up, trying to get a new measure for what to call the man.

“Nnnnnnnamby Pamby!” she finally announces with a point and a cocked eye. “Namby, fuckin…fuckin fucked ship, mate. Mental, ah? Hard t’imagine what sick fuck designed it.” She shakes her head and takes another draw from the pipe, coughing wretchedly as she does so.

“Odd burn goin down,” she observes as much to herself as anyone around.

Hit the heart and I’ll fling a birate at you?

THE HISTORY OF ONE ANNE BONNY, WHO NEVER HANG’D

Lord William Cormac (lately of Old Head of Kinsale, in Cork County, Ireland) was quite a lot of things, but loyal was seldom among them. While the lawyer’s wife lay dying, he was seducing the help—specifically one Mary Brennan. When his in-laws threatened to expose his infidelity, William Cormac moved with his maid and illegitimate daughter to Charleston, South Carolina. By the time the move to their new plantation was finished, William Cormac and his new wife were happy to invite their perfectly legitimate son to be a clerk in his father’s law firm. Andy Cormac was a quick study and had a good head for law. It was almost a shame when the news made its way down to Charleston from London, anyway, that William had seduced and now married the maid and their daughter was somewhere with them. Anne lost five things by the time she turned 16: her identity and the freedoms therein as Andy; her mother, who passed away suddenly; her childhood as she took over the household duties her mother had seen to; her conscience, which now boasted one charge of fraud, one of battery, and one of murder; and her heart.

Anne brought home her fiancé, James Bonny (a small-time pirate attempting to legitimize himself), and introduced him to her father. Upon the day of their marriage, Anne Bonny was legally disowned by her loving father—and I do mean that unironically, as Anne was her father’s pride and joy, and his greatest love. It would later turn out that William Cormac was right to dislike James Bonny. James had likely planned to use his marriage to Anne as a means of accessing the small fortune her father had amassed. His attempts to legitimize himself consistently fell flat, likely because he was not a trustworthy person, and so when his marriage to Anne failed to produce money readily, James began to sulk. Anne, annoyed by his sulking, would spend her time in bars of all sorts, rubbing elbows with all kinds of ruffians. The more time she spent, the rougher she became; the rougher she became, the rougher the company she kept. Soon Anne was friends with many a pirate in the port, and through those friendships James saw a way out of his circumstances. Unbeknownst to Anne, James began selling out her cohorts, cashing in on their relationship to his wife by using her to provide the most recent news of them to the authorities. It was insidious, and it worked. There was just one problem.

Anne had fallen in love with someone else, having long been out of love with James.

While James had been developing a reputation as a poor pirate with distasteful legal dealings, Anne found a new solution to the problem of pirates being given to the governor: she simply stopped telling James about her friends and acquaintances, even when one such friend started to become much more. “Calico” Jack Rackham was a pirate captain with a reputation all his own, and while not a particularly good pirate, he was one of the small handful known throughout the Caribbean. He and Anne fell into a whirlwind romance, the culmination of which ended in Jack attempting to buy Anne out of her marriage. When James denied this and threatened Jack instead, Anne took to the sea with Jack, taking the good-for-nothing’s name along with her.

Anne is left in Cuba to give birth to her and Jack’s first child, who is never heard from/of again, for one reason or another. By the time Anne joins back up with Jack, he’d taken a Dutch ship and pressed the sailors into piracy, including a young man named Mark Read. Despite starting a piratical career against their will, Mark grew to love the life and their companions, especially Anne. The two grew very close, assisted in no small part by Mark’s most precious of secrets. Jack would become jealous of Mark and Anne, believing the scuttlebutt that the two were having an amorous affair. The scuttlebutt happened to be true. Anne, however, fearing for Mark’s safety, revealed their secret to one other person aboard the ship. Once Jack learned Mark’s secret, he turned a blind eye to their dalliances with Anne, and likely had dalliances with Mark to boot. Mark, you see, was biologically a woman. A woman named Mary Read.

October of 1720 proved to be the downfall of the Revenge and her crew. The pirate ship had just taken a Spanish commerce ship and spent the night celebrating this victory by drinking to excess, with the notable exceptions of Mark and Anne. The next morning, the Revenge was attacked by a former pirate currently working as a naval captain. The celebrations of the night before had incapacitated Rackham and his crew, who stayed below decks or otherwise surrendered without a fight. Anne and Mark were the only two crewmen to fight back against the British Navy, and being only two, they lost handily. The entirety of the pirate crew were taken to Port Royale to stand trial, at which time Anne famously berated Jack. (“Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang’d like a dog.”)

Anne and Mark were granted temporary stays of execution, as both were pregnant at the time the rest of their crew was sentenced to death. Mark would die in prison from a fever, never giving birth; Anne, on the other hand, is a case less clear. Most simply say that she disappeared. Others, however, suspect William Cormac may have had something to do with it. Specifically, that William paid Anne’s ransom and brought her back to South Carolina, where she ended up having her second child, remarrying, and dying quietly surrounded by eight other children on April 25, 1782.

There were two small spots of ruddy color in Anne’s cheeks, unnoticeable if you didn’t know her—but a clear sign of violence to come for anyone who did. James. Fucking. Bonny. The useless fuck! How dare he come waltzing aboard, singing his own praises—

“Cocksucking liar,” Anne growled, unconsciously taking a step towards him. She stopped suddenly, shook her head as if to clear him from it…but her cutting (stabbing?) glare hasn’t moved an inch from Bonny. Her top lip curled and her left hand, the unnoticed dominant, is planted firmly on the hilt of her sword. Maybe killing him would be worth Bonnet’s ire.

“Ye know him better. How pissed is he likely t’be if I kill the dumbshite right now?”

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"Can't say I'm fucking surprised honestly," Izzy said, looking ahead as Bonnet talked to the specified man taken aboard the Revenge. The look on his face did not change throughout and he paused following her threats. His eyes stayed straight ahead as they watched. "Oh I know you will, got no doubts there. Pretty sure he can see it too. Bonnet and him both."