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You are the French Privateer ship. Your goal is to hit the merchant ship, Fortune, in order to make her give up her cargo (the treasure chest) before you are hit three times and put out of commission. Watch out for nasty weather… Storm clouds will sink you! Use your arrow keys to navigate, and your space key to fire.

About the Pirates and Ships of 1621

In the era of the Mayflower crossing pirates were a very real concern. The most likely pirates the Mayflower could have encountered were Algerian Corsair pirates, or any of a variety of hired thugs called “privateers.”

The Corsairs were North African raiders and slave traders (of Europeans), while the privateers were thieves hired to capture ships for certain European crowns.

In 1621, just two or three months after the famous fall feast in Plymouth / Plimoth, the good ship Fortune docked, dropped off a boatload of hungry mouths to feed, then left with a cargo hold of furs and goods which the Pilgrims had earned in trade.  The cargo was intended to be the first payment made to the Pilgrims’ venture capitalists back in England.

But the good ship Fortune never made it home. She was taken by French privateers.

At the time of her capture, Fortune had a Plimoth passenger on board who was carrying a very important document which was to be published in England. The document was Mourt’s Relation, one of only two documents now known to exist which give first hand details about the 1621 fall picnic and feast.

Fortunately for us the document was not of any apparent value to the French crown, and was released with the Plimoth prisoner after (about) a two month hold.

Misnomers in the 1621 Pirates Game

In the “1621 Pirates” game the ships fire on each other, and are sunk if hit. While there were ship
cannons in this era, they were not widely used by privateers as they were commissioned to capture ships and cargo in tact. As privateers manned larger, well equipped vessels, smaller merchant vessels like Fortune, which were not designed for warfare, were wise to simply surrender.

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