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TVV · 24th July 2008, 06:33 AM

I am not sure if the sketches are reliable - looking at the ship, it does not look like a xebec, the preferred type of vessel for the barbary coast pirates, which had triangular sails. I think the pictures are most the artist's imagination ratherthan an accurate depiction of real pirates and their weapons.

24th July 2008, 06:33 AM	#20
TVV Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bay Area Posts: 1,599	I am not sure if the sketches are reliable - looking at the ship, it does not look like a xebec, the preferred type of vessel for the barbary coast pirates, which had triangular sails. I think the pictures are most the artist's imagination ratherthan an accurate depiction of real pirates and their weapons.