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Welcome to Dead Mans Chest .com

Welcome to Dead Mans Chest .com.

This is a site dedicated to Pirates & Piracy, Treasures and Treachery.

Everyone knows the first line of the verse:

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

But do you know the rest of it? Or what it means? Or the references? Here is an interesting explanation of it, involving real Pirates, and Blackbeard himself. ---> Read the verse

Buccaneers were pirates who attacked French and Spanish shipping in the West Indies during the 17th and 18th centuries. The term is now used generally as a synonym for pirate. However, while pirates were exclusively limited to the sea, buccaneers plundered both on the shores and on high seas.
Piracy (38)
Piracy is robbery committed at sea, or sometimes the shore, by an agent without a commission from a sovereign nation.
Images and Texts
Pirates (24) new
One who commits piracy by engaging in robbery, pillaging, or plundering at sea is known as a pirate.
Drake, Sir Francis, Teach, Edward - Blackbeard, William "Captain" Kidd
Treasure Hunting (226) new
Searching for hidden treasure has been a notable human activity for millennia. Even before pirates, people searched for gold, silver, diamonds, old relics, and more.
Buried Treasure, Equipment and Tools, Games, Metal Detecting
Movies and Videos about Pirates, Piracy and Buccaneers

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