What did pirates do with their ships?
Most times they hid them
If we’re to confine ourselves to the Gold Age of Piracy, the Caribbean and West African coasts were very sparsely populated, and there were loads of deserted areas where a pirate ship could his out, only to sally forth when a ripe merchant vessel came by.
They’d tend to avoid established government towns, unless they had a pirate-friendly government, like Tortuga or Grand Bahama, and sometimes Port Royal.
Or they could even possy up at Madagascar, which for a time had its very own pirate haven.
It wouldn’t last long, though, and the motto of a pirate’s life being a short ,but merry one, quickly came true. Soon, the pirate’s life was actually too short to ever be merry.
And despite the fact that pirates were truly horrible people, they make great subject matter for fiction, even heavy metal fiction.
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