NQG East Coast Travels

Discovery & Piracy in the Colonies

No Quarter Given travels to the East Coast

During the summer of 1998, we took a month long voyage to visit the pirate crews, nautical folk, maritime ports and tall ships from Massachusetts to North Carolina.

Details are found in the September & November 1998 NQG issues.

Here are the photos of the people and places,
and links to the various sites we visited.

All photos by Christine Markel Lampe unless otherwise noted.

Michael MacLeod & Jamaica Rose
(photo by T. Eastman)

ERIE, PENN - Erie Maritime Museum & USS Brig Niagara

BOSTON - "Old Ironsides"

USS Constitution Museum

SALEM - "Pirates, not Witches"

New England Pirate Museum

Salem Maritime National Historical Site

MARBLEHEAD - "Pirates of Marblehead"

Scurvy Dogs

BOSTON - "Turn Around Cruise"

SALEM, MA - "Blackbeard's Skull"

Peabody Essex Museum

SHARON, MA - "Scrimshaw, Scrimshaw, and More Scrimshaw"

Kendall Whaling Museum

PLYMOUTH, MA - "My Relatives Came over on the Mayflower"

PROVINCETOWN, MA - "A Pirate Shipwreck"

Exhibition Whydah - History of the wreck, Barry Clifford, and more, plus online pirate shopping gallery.

Capt. Kidd and his special shrub, of which he gave us a bottle. (photo by Bob Chandler)

MYSTIC, CT. - "Mystic Seaport"

NEW YORK, NY - "South Street Seaport"

OCEAN VIEW, NJ - "The New Jersey Coast"

PHILADELPIA, PA - "Under the Black Flag"

Independance Seaport Museum

FENWICK ISLAND, DE - "The Best Little Museum"

DiscoverSea

Gold disks and finger bars on display at the DiscoverSea Museum.

Musket parts recovered from the "Association" shipwreck

NEWPORT NEWS VA - "Meeting Blackbeard"

Blackbeard (aka Ben Cherry) drives away in his special Lincoln Mark VII

WILLIAMSBURG, VA - "The Trial of Blackbeard's Crew"

Colonial Williamsburg

Weapons found on the walls of the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg,

even on the ceiling,

. . . just about everywhere you look!

John Millar serenades us during the evening Gambols at Chowning's Tavern (photo by T. Eastman)

NEWPORT NEWS, VA - "Mariner's Museum"

ANNAPOLIS, MD - "Resting Place of John Paul Jones"

Seamus Kennedy - performer at Harry Browne's pub (schedule and recordings)

US Naval Academy

The cutlass of John Paul Jones in the crypt below the Naval Academy's chapel.

ANNAPOLIS, MD - "Rowing an Irish Curragh"

Our daughter, Evaine, (3rd from left) tries her hand at rowing an Irish curragh in the Annapolis Harbor.

WHEATON, MD - "Royal Mile Pub"

Ship's Company - hosts a monthly Shanty Sing-Along

BALTIMORE, MD - "BucCONeer - A Convention of Pirates"

Pyrates Royale played at the Opening Ceremonies and the Queens Reception

The art show featured several panels of Don Maitz's pirate art, including the "Forty Thieves" painting (click on the small picture under Don's portrait to see this wonderful painting).

BUCCONEER - "Pyrate Party"

Many of the brethren gathered at the Pyrate Party hosted by Lance Oszko (fourth photo down)

The Rumskulls brought their cutlasses to bear in helping prepare for the party.

See Lisa Ashton in her turquoise Hawaiian Tropic Tudor Pirate Wench outfit (last photo of the group).

During the Pyrate Party, Capt. McLeod performs escort duty at the HUGO's ceremony (sixth photo down).

Many buccaneers, and other strange characters, were spotted at the Pyrate Party on Friday night at BucCONeer

Captain Israel Hands (left), Tawny Port (center), Black John (right)

Jim Rockwell (left), and Captain Cable (right)

Many joined in with the shanty singing.

BUCCONEER "Masquerade" & "Grand Finale"

Bucconeer Barbie (fourth photo down)

Not that you can see it here in this portrait, but the brocade on this couple's clothing had a skull and crossbones design worked into it!! They are fabric merchants, and were selling this fabric in the Dealers Room.

This little guy's name was Placido

Some of our hard-won doubloons earned from selling our NQG wares at Bucconeer.

BALTIMORE - "We Finally Get to See Baltimore"

"Fort McHenry"