#Brigs on modern warships plus#
The Queen Anne's Revenge sported up to 40 cannon plus numerous swivel guns and small arms.Ī full-size 32- to 36-pound iron cannon costs about $22,000, and cannon-grade black powder is about $15 per pound. It may surprise you to learn that muzzleloading cannons are legal to own so long as they don't use exploding shells and the shot, powder, and primer are all separately loaded. Total crew costs: about $19.5 million per year. Navy pay rates and multiplied them by 1.4 to cover everything from Social Security and Medicare to 401K contributions arriving at an annual cost of $11.3 million-spreadsheet on request.Ĭosts for food, drink, and other essentials can be estimated by a standard business contractor per diem charge of $75 per person per day, or about $8.2 million. To estimate your likely outlay, I took current U.S. Pirate crews typically worked for a share of the plunder, but this is the 2010s, when even cutthroats expect a regular paycheck.
Most pirate ships were fairly small, with maybe a dozen guns and crews of around 50, but some carried crews of more than 200, and the Queen Anne's Revenge carried 300 to 400. Since that was an 80-ton ship, I'll take a flyer and project the cost to reconstruct the 200-to-300 ton Revengeat $11.6 million.
In 2009 the cost to build a replica of Blackbeard's sloop Adventure, a much smaller ship, was estimated at $3.7 million. A 27-meter replica of the Black Pearl, with room for 70 tourists, eight crew, and six bronze cannons was listed for sale online at $2 million but later reduced to $750,000. While this isn't something you can price on Amazon, we can make estimates based on other efforts. I gather you want something huge, on the order of Blackbeard's pride, the Queen Anne's Revenge. However, one must ask whether tricorn-and-parrot-type piracy is a paying proposition in the modern age. I understand the appeal of piracy in the Jack Sparrow mold, although I personally could skip the eyeliner.
How much would it cost to buy or commission a ship of the line, fully stocked with cannons, cannonballs, food, muskets, rifles, gunpowder, and crew of 300? Is it legal to purchase all of this? -Howard Grao, London It seems pirates have made a comeback, and so with great excitement, and possibly a bit of delusion, I've decided to become one.
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