Pirates of the Pacific: The Convict Seizure of the Wellington

Title
Pirates of the Pacific: The Convict Seizure of the Wellington
Publication Date
2008
Author(s)
Ihde, Erin
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8738-5270
Email: eihde2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:eihde2
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Australian Association for Maritime History Inc
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:1440
Abstract
The word 'pirates' immediately brings to mind romantic and fanciful images -buried treasure, the Jolly Roger, walking the plank, wooden legs, eye patches, rude parrots, the list goes on. Hollywood films about pirates have always been popular, from The Black Pirate of 1926 through to the swashbuckling adventures of Errol Flynn in 1940s The Sea Hawk and beyond. What the word 'pirates' doesn't usually bring to mind, though, is convicts in colonial New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Yet it was a word that occurred quite regularly with regard to them. This paper will highlight just why that was so, with special reference to one escapade involving the brig Wellington in 1826-27. It will point out too that there are some comparisons that can be made with what people might think of as 'traditional' pirate practices.
Link
Citation
The Great Circle, 30(1), p. 3-17
ISSN
0156-8698
Start page
3
End page
17

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