Utah Sen. Mike Lee recently kicked off a conversation about the return of letters of marque and reprisal as a means of ...

Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, the Goromaru is more than just a transportation vessel, serving as a reflection of Majima's ...

Suspected Somali pirates have fled a Yemeni fishing boat they seized off the Horn of Africa and operated for five days ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

I've lived in the Tampa Bay area as a Florida local for 19 years. Some of the best things to do include a boat cruise or a ...

The Jose Gasparilla II is described as the “world’s only fully-rigged pirate ship.” The flotilla participants came ashore at the Tampa Convention Center to kick off the Parade of Pirates. The ...

“In 1783, having become a traitor and a pirate, José Gaspar gave the name of “Gasparilla” to himself as well as to his ship and the island in Charlotte Harbor, on the west coast of Florida ...

Every year, an estimated 300,000 participants come to Tampa for Gasparilla Pirate Festival ... But as a three-masted ship draped in colorful flags approached the Tampa Convention Center, the ...

Every year, an estimated 300,000 participants come to Tampa for Gasparilla Pirate Festival ... But as a three-masted ship draped in colorful flags approached the Tampa Convention Center, the ...