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The Pirate History Podcast

Episode 44 - Refitting

The Pirate History Podcast

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Pirate life wasn't all swashbuckling adventure and rum. Sometimes it meant days spent working on their vessels, or weeks at sea. Or even losing the wind and being forced to sit idle while your enemies prepare. Frustration and boredom and hard work could be as much a part of pirate life as sea shanties and nautical robbery. Today we take a look at just that on the Pacific Adventure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

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Now January's forecast starting cold and grey with outbreaks of boredom before brightening up dramatically as

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friannuary rewards sweep across the country.

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Hundreds of Merlin annual passes,

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50 private cinema screenings

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and sun-soaked family holidays.

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The outlook is very nice indeed.

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Brighten up January for your family

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with Fryeaniary rewards from McDonald's.

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Earned points on fries for a chance to win epic family prizes.

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Sign up on the McDonald's app now.

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Hw.

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18 Plus, purchase medium or large fries by 31st of January for an entry into Prize draw.

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Maximum 28 entries only via app of participating restaurants, term supply. Large Fries by 31st of January for an entry in surprise draw. Maximum Restaurants, Terms of Lie.

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Today's show is also brought to you by our Patreon supporters, including our Commodore

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class.

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That's Commodore's Hefei, Zumen, Black Tip, Matthew the Navigator, Long John Sterling, Bull, Vertagon,

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Conifallende, rumgut, and Bootstrap's Bailey. Really. Oh, Hello, welcome to the Pirate History Podcast. My name is Matt. Thank you for listening. In late 1679, after their attack on

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Portobello and the departure of their French comrades, the amassed Pirate Fleet under captains John Coxon, Richard

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Hawkins, Peter Harris, Bartholomew Sharp, and Edmund Cook was the largest

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assembled since Henry Morgan's raid on Panama. It included such illustrious names as William

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Dampier and Lionel Wafer. Both were natural scientists who intended to

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