Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch.

However, unlike aircraft carriers, cruise ships aren't armed to the teeth, which makes them giant targets for pirates, both figuratively and literally. As surprising as it sounds, pirates are ...

Saturday marks the 308th anniversary of the sinking of the pirate ship, Whydah, after one of the worst storms in history hit the boat off the coast of Cape Cod. The ship was commissioned in 1715 ...

On Wednesday, crews worked to return the landmark pirate ship to Playland’s Castaway Cove on the Boardwalk, four years after the ship’s fiery destruction. A towering crane lifted the stern of ...

The Jose Gasparilla Pirate Ship sails into Tampa to invade the city on Saturday. The iconic scene happens once a year and is said to be the largest marine parade in the U.S. The ship begins at Ballast ...

Mark Ferguson, owner of Ferg’s Sports Bar & Grill, has put his Gasparilla-worthy float up for sale just in time for the upcoming pirate parade. The ship is on display on a friend’s piece of ...

NEWPORT, R. I. Oct. 23. - The county authorities who, on Saturday seized the pirate sloop Doroda, now have the sloop Bessie, which approached the Doroda and tried to communicate with it ...

Experts believe that the ship, identified as a Barbary corsair (or pirate ship) from the 17th century, was most likely headed to the Spanish coast to capture and enslave locals, Live Science reported.