Special Days/Talk Like A Pirate Day

Background

Wikipedia has an article describing the holiday's background. DP first observed this event in 2005.

Forum Links

Providing Content:

• Talk Like a Pirate Day

DP community/fun threads:

• Start Here: Pirates Ahoy!
• What's Your Pirate Name?
• Essential Pirate Accessory
• Pirate Banner!

Projects

Note: The lists below may become out of date at times. See the current list of all Talk Like a Pirate Day projects at DP here.

In the rounds

• Roman d'Eustache le moine pirate fameux du XIIIe siècle, by Michel, Francisque is now in proj_submit_pgposted.
• Die Piraterie, Beiträge zum internationalen Seerecht, by Stiel, Paul is now in proj_submit_pgposted.
• History of the buccaneers of America. {P2->P2} {F2 Qual}, by Burney, James is now in proj_submit_pgposted.
• Journal of voyages, by Dunham, Jacob is now in proj_submit_pgposted.
• The Rose of Paradise, by Pyle, Howard is now in proj_submit_pgposted.
• The West Indies and the Spanish Main [1899] {P3 skipped}, by James Rodway is now in proj_submit_pgposted.
• Trial of the officers and crew of the privateer Savannah, on the charge of piracy, in the United States circuit court for the southern district of New York., by Warburton, A. F. is now in proj_submit_pgposted.
• Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer {P3 skipped}, by Brady, Cyrus Townsend is now in proj_submit_pgposted.
• The Pirate and The Three Cutters, by Captain Marryat is now in proj_submit_pgposted.
• Journal du corsaire Jean Doublet de Honfleur, by Jean Doublet is now in proj_submit_pgposted.

In post-processing

• A journal, of a young man of Massachusetts {Fast Formatting Feedback}, by Waterhouse, Benjamin.
• Captain Brand, of the "Centipede" {P3 Qual}, by Wise, Henry Alexander.
• Der Schweizerische Robinson - Erstes Bändchen {fraktur} {No P2} {needs fixing, see notes}, by Wyss, Johann Rudolf.
• Der Tatbestand der Piraterie nach geltendem Völkerrecht unter vergleichender Berücksichtigung der Landesgesetzgebungen, by Stiel, Paul.
• The black buccaneer, by Meader, Stephen W..
• The buccaneer. A Tale, by Hall, S. C..

Posted

• A Declaration of the Cavses
• Aventures merveilleuses mais authentiques du capitaine Corcoran II
• Blackbeard
• Blackbeard, buccaneer
• Buccaneers and pirates of our coasts
• Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century (1910)
• Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
• Captain Scraggs
• The Corsair King
• The Dead Men's Song
• Eurimédon, ou L'illustre pirate
• The expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the suppression of piracy
• Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea
• Famous sea fights from Salamis to Tsu-shima
• The Frontier Boys on the Coast, or, In the pirate's power
• Great pirate stories
• Howard Pyle's Book of pirates
• L'illustre corsaire, tragicomédie
• The iron pirate
• Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter
• King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 (1912)
• The Lady and the Pirate
• La mer et les marins
• La piraterie dans l'antiquité
• Marcof le Malouin
• Money Island
• The motor pirate
• On the Spanish Main; or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. With a description of the buccaneers and a short account of old-time ships and sailors.
• Peak's Island; a Romance of the Buccaneer Days
• Pieces of Eight
• Piracy off the Florida coast and elsewhere
• Pirate gold
• A pirate of parts
• Pirates
• The Pirates of Ersatz
• The pirates' who's who; giving particulars of the lives & deaths of the pirates & buccaneers
• Plague ship
• Plotting in Pirate Seas
• Le prince corsaire
• The Privateer's-man
• Privateering and piracy in the colonial period: illustrative documents
• The Sailor's Word-Book
• Sans-peur le corsaire
• The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties (1921)
• The story of the Barbary corsairs
• A Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian Voyage
• Tales of Daring and Danger
• The trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane
• Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates