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Who held the power aboard?
A pirate company was not one universal organization. Compare duties, reported articles and the division of resources. Ask who could make a decision, who had to carry it out and who was prevented from leaving.
Guides in this topic.
4 guidesPirate ranks and crew duties.
Less a universal ladder, more a collection of jobs, privileges and contested authority.
Captain or quartermaster? It depended on the moment.
Follow authority through a chase, an ordinary day and the division of a prize.
The pirate code was not one book.
What the surviving account says—and what it cannot give back to us.
How pirate prize shares worked.
A worked model of one reported rule—not an estimate of what a pirate earned.