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on 3 May came ‘another very sore storme’ which so buffeted the Red Dragon that it caused its rudder to shear off. The rudder sank without trace and there was no replacement.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
The gale was now at its height, "blowing like scissors and thumb-screws;" the captain was on deck; the ship, which was light, rolling and pitching as though she would shake the long sticks out of her; and the sail gaping open and splitting, in every direction.
Richard Henry Dana • Two Years Before the Mast
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
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When Drake’s rival, Sir Walter Raleigh, and his crew returned from a similar raid, they were immediately denounced by the Spanish ambassador as ‘Pirates, pirates, pirates’.10
William Dalrymple • The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Pirate #1: Superconsumers
Eddie Yoon • Snow Leopard
Pirate #4: Visionary