The Incredible True Story of a Marooned Pirate
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There are a lot of popular misconceptions about pirates, but the trope of pirates marooning victims on desert islands has a strong historical backing. For instance, codes of law followed by pirates specifically listed marooning as a punishment for breaking the code. While pirates left victims of marooning for dead, there are a few survival stories. We look at the story of Alexander Selkirk, one of the most famous survival narratives.
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Sources:
Cordingly, David. Under the Black Flag: the Romance and the Reality of Life among the Pirates. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006. Chapters 5 and 7 are particularly relevant for this video.
Dampier, William. New Voyage Round the World. 1699, gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500461h.html.
Johnson, Charles. A General History of the Pyrates. 1726.
La Roque de Roquebrune, Robert. “La Roque, Marguerite De.” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, www.biographi.ca/en/bio/la_roque_marguerite_de_1E.html.
Rogers, Woodes. A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Sea, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. A. Bell, 1712, books.google.com/books?id=e1GmdIw7fpgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false. Pages 125-130 concern Selkirk's story.
@JohnnyButtons 2 жыл бұрын
Chuck Noland was a FedEx employee that was marooned and survived on a deserted island for a few years…sadly his best friend “Wilson” was lost at sea.
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Ya I heard about that cool thing about that story he did deliver one package right after that!
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@tylerkelley3400 2 жыл бұрын
Me as well
@andreraymond6860 3 жыл бұрын
The parrot myth stems from a great interest in England and other countries for rare wildlife . Sailors tried to smuggle aboard birds and other beasts to bring back and sell when they reached home ports. Parrots and other exotic birds would have been seen as valuable booty to exchange in places like Charleston South Carolina, where they would be funneled back on merchant ships and sold for a profit.
@danieltoi6347 2 жыл бұрын
Pirates would use exotic birds to bribe English Officials :)
@davepowell7168 2 жыл бұрын
It's always best to smuggle exotic birds through customs on your shoulder. If they don't shut up, under the hat. Aargh
@davepowell7168 2 жыл бұрын
@@danieltoi6347 Parrots trained to say 'nothing to declare' ?
@Pleasemison Ай бұрын
I farted as I read this
@timholder6825 2 жыл бұрын
It wasn't always a desert island, often it was just a sand bar in the ocean (dead man's chest). 15 men on a dead man's chest, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. What a fate.
@jaydubya3698 2 жыл бұрын
I always wondered what a "dead man's chest" was...now I know. Thanks, man. You learn something new everyday.
@flybeep1661 Жыл бұрын
It's supposed to have said "deserted islands", you'd be out searchin for a long time to actually be finding "desert islands".
@T0pMan15 3 жыл бұрын
The only pirate to bury treasure was Captain Kidd. After he was caught by officials for piracy, he was sentenced to be hanged. He tried bargaining with the officials and bribing them with the location of his hidden treasure; to escape death. But to his dismay, he was still hanged anyway. Treasure is still yet to be found I believe
@slin2903 2 жыл бұрын
Inspiration of One Piece?
@wms72 2 жыл бұрын
"The only pirate to bury treasure...." FALSE. Vikings buried their treasure. Sweden owns an island that still cannot be explored, because they don't want treasure hunters digging it up.
@slin2903 2 жыл бұрын
@@wms72 the vikings were Pirates but I believe its obvious that he meant the pirates of a few hundred yearsater
@samiam4544 2 жыл бұрын
Someone should tell the Oak Island boys.
@RedFloyd469 2 жыл бұрын
@@T0pMan15 Vikings are, in a very literal sense, pirates. They are not synonymous with "scandinavians." To go on a "viking" was more or less synonymous with going on a "raid", aka, to go pirating.
@DeckofLies 9 ай бұрын
Imagine surviving being stranded on a desert island for 4 years, surviving to tell the tale, then some fake dude named Robinson gets the island named after him. A tragedy
@roadraider6266 2 ай бұрын
You survived certain death. Screw that piece of island
@stateofflorida5082 21 күн бұрын
Ya, Selkirk island sounds better too
@vinkhe861 2 жыл бұрын
L + Plundered + No Wenches + Marooned + You Have Scurvy
@aztro.99 2 жыл бұрын
+ no dabloons
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@shawncurtis8794 2 жыл бұрын
For the time, the opposition having enough mercy to give you a “more humane” & quick ending compared to the contrary was kind of surprising to me honestly.
@aleksisuuronen5969 2 жыл бұрын
I don't know it's a bit sarcastic also in my mind. Like what if you save it, see a boat and fire but they don't hear it so now you are just screwed to die from multiple things (maybe you could hang yourself with some bs if there is actually a jungle in the island and not just rocks). Also like you can propably before they leave maybe even shoot the captain if still sight when loading and most likely get killed instantly after that one but you would have to do the decision in a split second, so that would be running in your mind if in rage but survival instincts kick in. Also like the gun will be there to haunt you when you are at your lowest and many propably didn't even try and do something with the situation before just popping themselves. Firstly it sounds to me a bit sarcastic because of the bottle of water, like thanks a lot you're leaving me here but a bottle of water.. how nice of you. I don't know man, I would rather take the gun but it sounds a bit like somekinda sick joke to the people giving it to you. These people might haul you under the boat full of barnacles so they aren't exactly the humane kind.
@coyotestarrk9428 Жыл бұрын
Coming from pirates it really is surprising
@-Jansen155 5 ай бұрын
True... Maybe it's like a final thank you to them for being part of the crew, despite their crimes.
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@kevinoswald4136 2 жыл бұрын
goats and pigs were often dropped off on uninhabited Islands in hopes they would procreate, creating a natural source of fresh food. on the return trips.
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I was marooned on a dessert island and gained 37lbs
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@RealtalkwithRyanT Жыл бұрын
This is an amazing story! What a G, so many people would have just rolled over and died not only did he hunt and cook the meat he seasoned it.
@spankyharland9845 2 жыл бұрын
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Nice video interesting how he survived so long
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@mikeygilmour4635 Жыл бұрын
It makes sense. Execution is such a horrible thing and nobody wants to do it, especially on a small ship with maybe 150 people. Better maroon troublesome crew members to almost certain death and still have a relatively clear conscience knowing that they have some slim chance of survival.
@-Jansen155 5 ай бұрын
This is a great point. People think that pirates are bad dudes so they could just kill people. But even for them, it's human nature to really not like killing people.
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Imagine the laugh this guy had when they told him what happened to the captain and his ship
@Quincy_Morris 2 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure you’re wrong about the parrots as pets thing. As I understand it, ship pets were common and parrots were common in places where pirates frequented. Though now I want to research more.
@Jobe-13 11 ай бұрын
Marooning actually seems pretty terrifying
@-Jansen155 5 ай бұрын
Wonderful video, guys. I think I've underestimated how much of pirate cliches were real (at least real once in a while)! How the heck did Selkirk survive like that, when modern survival reality shows have to fake it so hard?
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Do a video on the underrated pirate Black Caesar. I’m curious about him. It would be nice if you were the first to expand his name.
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@bernardzamostny3382 2 жыл бұрын
The narrator is wrong @ the 1:54 mark one can read that the marooned was given one bottle of powder (gun powder), one bottle of water, one small arm and shot. One small arm could be a rifle or musket, (large arms were cannons) so you got a powder flask and shot ( bullets) and water. Not one loaded pistol so you could end your life. On the San Fernando island that Alexander Selkirk was marooned, when he was left by captain Stradling, he was left with his stowage box, a musket and powder & ball shot. The island was also used by the Spanish, he had to hide from and the Spanish sailors grew vegetable gardens on the island that Selkirk took advantage of.
@tpachalski 2 жыл бұрын
Why the musket and the water? I mean... Isnt the goal of marooning slow death?
@wms72 2 жыл бұрын
@@tpachalski I don't think so. The Vikings used to leave people alive, thinking the gods would rescue them if they wanted to. So they wouldn't be guilty of murder (in their own mind)
@cristiewentz8586 2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if there was an element of doing to others as you would be done by.
@awildgengxr9021 2 жыл бұрын
*Selkirk eating his seasoned Goat* "Heh heh heh"
@yandan7010 2 жыл бұрын
He didn't "return to England" as he was Scottish and had 'set off' from Ireland.
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@brentdude2100 2 жыл бұрын
Great book as well named Robinson Crusoe
@robinhood480 2 жыл бұрын
By Robert Louise Stevenson
@e.r.1702 2 жыл бұрын
i feel like a ship crew wouldn’t want to waste a gun because they only have so many.
@BeeTriggerBee 2 жыл бұрын
Black beard carried like 6 guns mate. Merchant ships where armed to protect cargo so you could just grab them after you took the ship. Later in the era pirates didn't even have to fight because their signature flags would just make them surrender.
@paulatradies1942 2 жыл бұрын
They weren't a set of rules they were more like guidelines.
@AceDeclan 2 жыл бұрын
2:14…that’s cold.
@fab9207 2 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite pirate facts is that Blackbeard was only active for 2 years.
@tobbyhappy3572 2 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@markhatfield5621 2 жыл бұрын
Long ago I read that the author of Robinson Caruso was himself stuck alone on an island for four years.
@katlynklassen809 2 жыл бұрын
Guy was lucky to be on the island he was.
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@jamesfrost7465 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for mentioning, No walking of the plank. (Hollywood)
@Cypher791 2 жыл бұрын
I was marooned a few times as a child at the mall… ☝️😳
@BrainPermaDeD 2 жыл бұрын
Did your mom maroon you?
@firmanimad 2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Selkirk did not only use the goats for food and shelter, but he admitted that he also used them for... sexual release.
@HandlesAreShit 2 жыл бұрын
😈
@Brookigetit 2 жыл бұрын
Holy shit no way
@LSDOvideos 2 жыл бұрын
who wouldnt?
@lukedaduke3533 2 жыл бұрын
guess his right hand wasn't good enough
@pureone8350 2 жыл бұрын
Get out
@FerretJohn 2 жыл бұрын
If you're going to maroon somebody on a desert island just remember to make sure there are no Sea Turtles about.
@nugsymalone1247 2 жыл бұрын
Wow if I ever become a millionaire, I really want to take a trip to that island. That would be pretty fascinating
@mr.bojangles9589 2 жыл бұрын
What's a pirates favorite restaurant? Arrrrbys.
@pooboi8600 2 жыл бұрын
I’m 99.9% sure Black Beard’s name was ‘Edward Thatch’ not ‘Edward Teach’.
@robinhood480 2 жыл бұрын
And Robert Louise Stevenson wrote the book. This Daniel Defoe guy is a rewrite or a movie or something No one gets it all right. I enjoyed the video. Not trying to find fault.... just putting the name out there Edit for spelling
@itsyoure9802 2 жыл бұрын
“What do you know about Sea Turtles…?”
@Gravyballs2011 2 жыл бұрын
I've also heard of some being stranded on dead whales. Here come the sharks!!
@Brad2117 2 жыл бұрын
Should have mentioned how they’d (supposedly) drag people under the boat. Their buoyancy would make them scrape against the barnacles on the hull. 🤔
@kenkahre9262 2 жыл бұрын
That was called keel hauling.
@georgeball1147 2 жыл бұрын
they did this on the show Black Sails. Painful way to go.
@KyleCarrier 8 ай бұрын
They had bottled water?! :0
@Wulfman317 2 жыл бұрын
But why is the rum gone?!
@ChickenMcThiccken 2 жыл бұрын
only the lucky one's who weren't already executed on the ship. they didn't waste their time with "exile" ; while being on a ship. you got tossed overboard; 99% of the time.
@lapensulo4684 2 жыл бұрын
Cool
@koroborok2719 2 жыл бұрын
When you start to introduce yourself as a manner of justification for all the luck you have
@jvharbin8337 2 жыл бұрын
He became the chewpecabra of the island
@UncleWally3 2 жыл бұрын
@ 5:05 - is that deserted islands or desert islands?
@HistoryDose 2 жыл бұрын
“Desert” in desert island has nothing to do with the climate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_island
@NakedUnderMyClothes 2 жыл бұрын
"For your punishment, you will be marooned on an island!" "Oh no! Is it a desert island devoid of any and all resources? Where I will have naught to do but dry up in the sun, on wet and salted sand?" "Well, actually...there's trees, goats, cats...some peppers..." "Oh...you know, some people would pay good money to be me right now."
@jamiehess4211 2 жыл бұрын
Selkirk was a teenager at the time, a cabin boy.
@pooboi8600 2 жыл бұрын
They defo would have found my sun bleached corpse if I was stuck there at 17
@jamiehess4211 2 жыл бұрын
@@pooboi8600 Likewise.
@claudesmoot1880 2 жыл бұрын
If we have thought of it today, it has already been done.
@flamingoqueen281 3 жыл бұрын
Where did the goats and cats on the island come from?
@HistoryDose 3 жыл бұрын
If I recall correctly, the Spanish had discovered the island in the late 16th century and the domesticated animals aboard their ships populated the island. They may have intentionally allowed this to have a food source when they needed to stop off on the island during future voyages.
@OneHundredPercent-100 4 ай бұрын
Alexander Selkirk was Scottish. He was born 8n Fife, in a sleepy little fishing town called Lower Largo. A place I used to caravan holiday as a child. Largo has a statue of the fictional "Robinson Crusoe" as Selkirk was factually the inspiration for Defoe's famous book. Slainte Mhath 2024
@aapex1 2 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how Vikings and other pirates have been romanticized rather than properly vilified in pop history, entertainment that is. Not so much the Barbary Pirates though. Most are unaware they ever existed. "and the shores of Tripoli"? Do modern US Marines even know what that means?
@erichooligan9329 2 жыл бұрын
yes, they know. you get a course in US marine corp history in boot camp
@robinhood480 2 жыл бұрын
Politically incorrect to talk about it.
@ahorsewithnoname773 Жыл бұрын
US Marines definiely know. The organization is very big on teaching it's history as a means of instilling a sense of esprit de corps in it's recruits. As Eric noted, it's part of what they're taught in basic training.
@Gliese380 5 жыл бұрын
*deserted, though
@clintonlyle7922 2 жыл бұрын
Deceive is misspelled
@NobleKorhedron Жыл бұрын
But from 1:55 onwards, for the #BlackBart bit; how are you going to punish the deserters? They've deserted, so they're gone...
@Sr89hot 2 жыл бұрын
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@nozyspy4967 2 жыл бұрын
What is the painting in the thumbnail?
@justincase2291 2 жыл бұрын
Is it derst island or deserted island? I've always been confused since most seem to be tropical with plenty of rainfall.
@5thGenNativeTexan 2 жыл бұрын
The term "desert" in the context of an island is an archaic form of "deserted", ie.. void of people. So in modern times, while we probably should say "deserted island", the old form still hangs around (probably from all the literature) and thus "desert island" is still often used. Also, not to be confused with the word "desert" that represents an wasteland of sand.
@robinhood480 2 жыл бұрын
@@5thGenNativeTexan Desert also used in the Antarctic exploration stories. Desert meaning vast , uninhabitable territory. Due to not only lack of water, but lack of about anything. Plus severe weather too hot or too cold. “ Taint nuttin’ here lieutenant
@mikewilliams1993 2 жыл бұрын
Wasn’t the movie castaway based on one of these pirate stories