Piracy at Barranquilla

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by Lodesman

One would think context would be enough. Boarding has many meanings, but in this context it means this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_boarding

When did navies get involved in this discussion??

[Pathfinder]

I'm getting kind of bored with this

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by Pathfinder

I'm getting kind of bored with this

This may help you out...

[rognvald]

"The only place I have had people board my boat and steal stuff was in Stanley, FI."
El Pinguino

Hi, P,
Stanley? What country?
Rognvald

[GordMay]

Originally Posted by Pathfinder

I'm getting kind of bored with this

I'm bored.
I think I will go to the mall, find a great parking spot, and sit in my car, with my reverse lights on.
Or, perhaps, I’ll phone up women's rights groups...
And ask to speak to the man in charge.
Or, maybe, I’ll ust go punch an orphan...
What is he going to do? Tell his parents?

The CruisersForum has me really stressed and bored, so I've been trying that Chinese thing, with the needles.
You know, heroin.

[Lodesman]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

When did navies get involved in this discussion??

Jeez Ping are you being stroppy or obtuse?
That wiki entry covers "boarding", not just boarding by navies.
Last I checked, this thread was about "piracy."
Discounting the imaginary Jack Sparrow, I don't recall any stories, historic or contemporary, of buccaneers plundering whilst walking down the pier.

[boatman61]

Background
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By 1695, the French Navy had declined to the point that it could no longer face the English and Dutch in an open sea battle and therefore had switched to privateering – guerre de course. Bernard Desjean, Baron de Pointis, active in the Caribbean from the beginning of the war, was able to convince King Louis XIV of France to let him try a daring attack on the richest city of the region, Cartagena, in present-day Colombia.

Raid
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He received command of a fleet of seven capital ships, three frigates, and some smaller vessels. The squadron left from Brest, France, on 7 January 1697, and arrived at Saint-Domingue in the West Indies on 3 March. Pointis requested assistance from governor Jean du Casse, who gave his support only reluctantly, as he preferred an attack on Portobelo. One month later, a fleet with 1,200 soldiers and 650 buccaneers appeared before Cartagena.

The renowned Spanish defences were not what they had once been, and Pointis conquered both fortresses which defended Cartagena relatively easily, losing only sixty men. Between 6 and 24 May the French plundered the city, accumulating loot valued at ten to twenty million livres.

Pointis then set sail directly for France, cheating his buccaneer allies of their promised share of the loot. Outraged, the buccaneers returned and plundered the city once more, this time untempered by the Buccaneer, committing rape, extortion and murder.

In fact Cartagena was the most popular city for pirate raids for a century..
https://mrnussbaum.com/cartagena-pirates

[Lodesman]

There were a lot of boardings in Cartagena, where there?

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by Lodesman

There were a lot of boardings in Cartagena, where there?

I see your choosing to ignore previous statements of yours..
QUOTE.. "I don't recall any stories, historic or contemporary, of buccaneers plundering whilst walking down the pier."

Some more historical facts..

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter...e-raid-287352/

https://www.philipkallan.com/single-...arbary-pirates

[Lodesman]

Originally Posted by boatman61

I see your choosing to ignore previous statements of yours..
QUOTE.. "I don't recall any stories, historic or contemporary, of buccaneers plundering whilst walking down the pier."

Another victim of context-blindness?
We're talking about boarding vessels, not sacking cities. Any stories of pirates boarding vessels from the shore?
Yeah, didn't think so.

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by rognvald

"The only place I have had people board my boat and steal stuff was in Stanley, FI."
El Pinguino

Hi, P,
Stanley? What country?
Rognvald

Falkland Islands.
The ratbags boarded while I was ashore as they would have been able to post a lookout and have good notice of my return. A very neat and tidy job, they ignored all the obvious stuff but took things like all my tethers out of the back of a frd locker, all my allen keys - but left the box they had been in, weirdly all my blade fuses went. Most was sailing specific stuff and mission critical. The expensive things in plain site - cameras and binoculars - were left.
Nothing was missed until we were getting her ready for sea some time later by which time they were long gone.

[Lodesman]

Pingo,

You didn't call them the Malvinas. 20 years and you're still a gringo

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by Lodesman

Another victim of context-blindness?
We're talking about boarding vessels, not sacking cities. Any stories of pirates boarding vessels from the shore?
Yeah, didn't think so.

What do you think they did with the useful vessels tied up at the jetties/quays..
Doubt they got into a rowboat and rowed round to seaward to scale and board for dramatic effect.. x 2..

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by Lodesman

Another victim of context-blindness?
We're talking about boarding vessels, not sacking cities. Any stories of pirates boarding vessels from the shore?
Yeah, didn't think so.

In early 1680 68 English pirates under the leadership of Basil Ringrose and Bartholemew Sharp arrived in the vicinity of modern Panama City having walked across the Isthmus of Panama from the Caribbean side.
On St Georges Day, April 23rd, 1680 they paddled some indian canoes out to five Spanish ships at anchor, boarded them , and took the lot.

So there you go. I think that would be called 'boarding from the shore'.

They then kept three of them , making 'Trinity' their flagship, and embarked on a bit of pillaging up and down the west coast of South America. By the end of 1681 they had tired of this so sailed Trinity around the Horn and back to the Caribbean , the first English sailors to round the Horn west to east, and three months later made a spot on landfall on Barbados the first land they had seen since departing northern Patagonia.

Its worth getting hold of a copy of 'A Buccaneer's Atlas ' It is the ultimate 'ripping yarn'.

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by Lodesman

Pingo,

You didn't call them the Malvinas. 20 years and you're still a gringo

Ah, the mythical malvinas, I've heard of them. They exist in the heads of some.