Did piracy exist during the Victorian era?

Hi all,. For as long as people have had objects of value, there have always been those who have wanted to steal those objects. The same principle goes for the Victorian era. As your answer is somewhat ambiguous to the type of piracy, I will refer to all of them. read more

Piracy has existed as long as people have knocked a few bits of wood together and launched themselves across the whale's road, and it still exists now, so, at a guess, yes, there were Victorian era pirates. read more

Yes, they did exist. And yes, they aren't "Blackbeard"s or "Henry Morgan"s, or even "Sir Francis Drake"s. But still, there were notable, colorful pirates in and around the proper period. Many more are lost to history and the biases of those who wrote the histories. read more

He proposes a "golden age of piracy, which spanned the period from roughly 1650 to 1730", which he subdivides into three distinct "generations": the buccaneers of 1650–1680, the Indian Ocean pirates of the 1690s, and the pirates of the years 1716–1726. read more