New ship for Liverpool’s pirates
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t has been announced by The Pirate Brethren of Liverpool that at last they have a new pirate ship. This is none other than the schooner ‘Vilma’, whose Captain and owner, Scott Metcalfe, has agreed to her becoming the designated Flagship of The Pirate Brethren. Built as a fishing boat on the Baltic Coast of
Denmark in 1934, Scott converted ‘Vilma’ over a period of four years to a topsail schooner. The Pirate Brethren have been shipmates and sailed together for a good many years now, with ‘Vilma’ being armed with their cannons and crewed by them, so it’s a natural progression that they should unite in ‘Black Piracy’.
Talk like a pirate All around the world and even hundreds of miles above it, the Brethren and even landlubbers celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day on 19th September each year. This day is the only holiday on the calendar that encourages people to babble like buccaneers for the sheer, anarchic fun of it. It’s been celebrated by millions of people on all seven continents – yes, even at the South Pole – and on the International Space Station! The holiday was the brainchild (if that’s the right word) of John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), two friends from Albany in the US state of Oregon. They were playing racquetball one day when, for reasons that aren’t clear to either of them now, they started insulting each other in pirate jargon. This led them to start
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The schooner ‘Vilma’ has raised the black flag in Albert Dock, Liverpool. Talk Like a Pirate Day and picked 19th September because it is the birthday of Summers’ ex-wife. He claims the date was stuck in his head and he wasn’t doing anything with it anymore, so it would be easy to remember! Their help in talking like a pirate can be found on: https://youtu. be/2cKCkbWDGwE.
Cap’n Slappy (left) and Ol’ Chumbucket.
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