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A Pirate “Takes” a Wife

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Marmalakè, Pirate of Micone. Watercolor portrait by Joseph Partridge, 1827-1828. (Accession#1940.687.01/QW160)

正如所承诺的，这是希腊米科诺斯海盗玛诺利斯·梅尔梅尔奇斯（Manolis Mermelechas）如何“接管”他的妻子（我的意思是“从字面上看”，而不是象征性的！）。请注意好莱坞……这里有一部海盗电影的好情节！

Just in case you didn’t read my最后一篇文章(which is too bad because Kevin Foster described it as a “ripping great yarn!”) Manolis Mermelechas was a native of the Greek island of Psara who fought against the Turks during the Greek War of Independence. After the Turks invaded and captured Psara in 1824, Mermelechas and his men shifted their base of operations to the pirate haven of Mykonos and continued their attacks on Turkish merchant vessels (and the ships of other countries, hence the designation as pirates!). On one cruise, Mermelechas and his men seized a Turkish merchant ship off the town of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos. It ended up being a capture that changed Mermemlechas’ life forever.阅读更多

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“ Bucko”不再

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在2019年9月的“像海盗”的“说话”上，我们在Twitter上发布了一条消息，显示了一幅华丽穿着的人，名为“Marmalakè”。这位艺术家将他确定为“胶带海盗”。我们的团队在图像上玩得很开心，并将Marmalakè描述为“ Bucko”和“冥想海盗”。那条奇怪的推文引起了纽约大学地中海历史与考古学助理教授Antonis Kotsonas的注意。安东尼斯在希腊独立战争后几年研究美国地中海中队的活动，并认为这张肖像可能描绘了一个名为Manolis Mermelechas的希腊海盗。

与肖像一起，安东尼症对艺术家约瑟夫·帕特里奇（Joseph Partridge）绘制的希腊岛屿的一组水彩景观感兴趣。这些图像是在1827年至1830年之间绘制的，而帕特里奇（PartridgeWarren。那些年与希腊针对奥斯曼帝国的独立战争的最后几年相对应。自1821年以来，战争一直在爆发，到1826年，战争陷入了经济困难，以至于许多希腊海员将海盗变成了一种生存形式，而不仅仅是对自己而言，而是对于他们所生活的社区。1827年初Warren，由主要指挥官劳伦斯·科尔尼（Lawrence Kearny）的队长，一名具有丰富经验的打击盗版经验的人，被派往爱琴海，以帮助保护美国商船并进行反雇佣行动。阅读更多

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A Tour Through the Mediterranean with Joseph Partridge

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USS Warren, Act of Bearing Up in the Archipelago. The Archipelago referred to in the title is most likely the area between Cape Matapan and the western end of Crete. In a letter dated April 3, 1828 Kearny states about the voyage from Smyrna to Mahon: “We have had a long passage of 63 days, experiencing a succession of heavy gales of wind from the N.W. and squalls, rendering it not only tedious, but very dangerous to the safety of the vessel being light and badly provided with rigging.” Painted by Joseph Partridge. (Accession#: 1947.0851.000001)

单击地图与USS一起游览地中海Warren!

A recent inquiry from the Assistant Professor of Mediterranean History and Archaeology at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World brought a really cool assemblage of watercolors in our collection to my attention. The images were painted by Joseph Partridge, an artist turned Marine stationed aboard USSWarren在1827年至1830年之间。阅读更多

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The UN Security Council Addresses Piracy

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This service medal, issued during the Korean War, shows the insignia of the United Nations. From The Mariners’ Museum Library collection.

Hello readers, and welcome back to the Library blog. In response to the continual threat of piracy, the United Nations Security Council recently held its first ever debate on the subject. Lead by Indian ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri, the council debated the need for better information sharing techniques, whether or not to continue using armed guards on merchant vessels, and the need for more powerful international laws and punishments for pirates. The full article is available这里。

这是联合国安理会首次直接讨论和辩论海盗行为的事实，这表明，可悲的是，海盗没有衰落。相反，辩论加强了盗版仍然是并且将继续成为世界各国需要团结起来的强大敌对力量的观念。尽管最近从索马里海岸采取的许多步骤使我们希望盗版最终可以被击败，但得出这一结论可能是漫长而艰难的旅程。也许世界各国可以在不久的将来团结和粉碎这一祸害。但是，在此之前，我们的海事工人必须生活在盗版的危害和死亡威胁下，世界各地的消费者将不得不为我们认为理所当然的许多产品支付一些额外的费用。阅读更多

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Pirates in Anglo-American Culture

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USS悬挂的欢乐的罗杰国旗游侠。公司从水手的博物馆llection.

Hello again, readers, and welcome back to the Library blog. A quick look at modern popular culture will make it clear even to the most casual of observers that the Caribbean Pirates of the 17thand 18th世纪是家庭娱乐中的图标。迪士尼的“加勒比海盗”系列取得了巨大成功，而20th世纪充满了关于海上狂欢的英雄和冒险经历的电影。然而，我们的新闻头条的抽样绘制了盗版的截然不同的画面：集装箱船被洗劫一空，为赎金而持有的船员，游客被绑架或杀害。的确，世界认识到这个问题，并部署了数十种军舰，以应对对商业和人身安全的海盗威胁。为什么对盗版的主题有这样的二分法？

As a historian, it seems to me that the issue of piracy meets its natural response in the modern headlines: piracy has been reviled and combated since time immemorial, as it should be. The catch is that people also like stories of adventure, romance and rooting for the underdog. English (and by extension, American) culture especially has always had a bit of a rebellious streak, with heroes like Robin Hood robbing the superfluously rich and thumbing their noses at a corruption. For the Anglo-American world, pirates served as an excellent source of rebellious fun once they had faded into the past a bit, and books like Robert Louis Stevenson’s宝藏岛capitalized on this fun in the late 1800s. About two centuries had passed since the buccaneers had last prowled the Caribbean, and it seemed safe to feature pirates as a source of adventure.阅读更多