Oil Pirates, Nigeria

• Ships sailing on their own often sailed close to warships or joined other convoys of ships to protect themselves from pirates. Pirates could only attack one ship at a time, so if the sailors traveled in groups there was less chance of their boat being the one that was attacked.
• Pirate Captain’s would change out of their expensive, flashy clothes if there was a chance they might be captured. This way they could pretend they where only one of the crew, and not somebody important and hopefully escape.
• Pirates probably didn’t have talking parrots.
• Although pirates have been around since the 15th century, most pirating happened between 1690 and 1720.