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Honors Theses
Title
Author
Date of Award
Spring 5-9-2020
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
History
First Advisor
Jesse Cromwell
Second Advisor
Noell Wilson
Third Advisor
John Samonds
Relational Format
Thesis
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Abstract
This thesis concerns the careers of pirates in the latest stage of that career, as pirates prepared to end their roving of the seas in order to 'settle down.' Though pirates are idolized in modern fiction, their ends are often overshadowed by the highlights of their careers. Here, the goal is to find what motivated pirates to engage in a life as outlaws and then at some point choose to cast that life aside. Conclusions on this are drawn from both primary and secondary sources where pirates gave information pertaining to their view of the world and retirement in it, often without realizing it. The thesis explores the interactions pirates had with the governments acting within the Atlantic world and the natives who inhabited it. Lastly, the thesis concludes that sea rovers gained a great deal through piracy, yet to retire they surrendered at least some of what they gained. Of interest, then, is what was lost through what methods of retirement, and what was retained through others.
Recommended Citation
Henderson, Cory, 'Sunset Piracy: The Ends of Atlantic Piratical Careers in the Age of Sail' (2020). Honors Theses. 1452.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/1452
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The Gulf of Corryvreckan (from the GaelicCoire Bhreacain meaning 'cauldron of the speckled seas' or 'cauldron of the plaid'), also called the Strait of Corryvreckan, is a narrow strait between the islands of Jura and Scarba, in Argyll and Bute, off the west coast of mainland Scotland.
It is possible for tourists to visit the site by way of boat trips from local harbours or sightseeing flights from Oban Airport.
Topography[edit]
Strong Atlanticcurrents and unusual underwater topography conspire to produce a particularly intense tidal race in the Corryvreckan channel. As the flood tide enters the narrow area between the two islands it speeds up to 8.5 knots (16 km/h) and meets a variety of seabed features including a deep hole and a rising pinnacle. These features combine to create whirlpools, standing waves and a variety of other surface effects.
The Corryvreckan is the third largest whirlpool in the world, and is on the northern side of the gulf, surrounding a pyramid-shaped basalt pinnacle that rises from depths of 70 to 29 m (230 to 95 ft) at its rounded top. Flood tides and inflow from the Firth of Lorne to the west can drive the waters of Corryvreckan to waves of more than 30 ft (9 m), and the roar of the resulting maelstrom can be heard 10 mi (16 km) away.
Although not, as is sometimes believed, formally classified by the Royal Navy as unnavigable, the nearby Grey Dogs, or Little Corryvreckan, are classified as such.[1] The Admiralty's West Coast of Scotland Pilot guide to inshore waters calls it 'very violent and dangerous' and says 'no vessel should then attempt this passage without local knowledge'. Experienced scuba divers who have explored the waters have described it as 'potentially the most dangerous dive in Britain'.[2]
Mythology[edit]
In Scottish mythology the haggoddess of winter, Cailleach Bheur, uses the gulf to wash her great plaid, and this ushers in the turn of the seasons from autumn to winter. As winter approaches, she uses the gulf as her washtub, and it is said the roar of the coming tempest can be heard from as far away as twenty miles (thirty kilometres), lasting for a period of three days. When she is finished with the washing, the cloth is pure white, and becomes the blanket of snow that covers the land.[3] The Cailleach occupying the whirlpool was described as 'the fiercest of the Highland storm kelpies' by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor.[4]
Another legend surrounds Norse king Breacan. In various stories, Breacan moored his boat near the whirlpool to impress a local princess, or alternatively to flee from his father across the gulf. In both stories Breacan was swept into the whirlpool, and his body dragged ashore later by his dog. Breacan may be named after the whirlpool, or its current name may be a Gaelic pun on his name.
Charles Mackay's poem 'The Kelpie of Corrievreckan' tells the story of a young woman who leaves her lover for a sea kelpie.[5] She discovers too late that the kelpie lives at the bottom of the sea and she is drowned, 'an awful warning to all fickle maidens'. The words were adapted and set to music for piano and orchestra by Learmont Drysdale in the 1890s,[6] and in 1939 Ruth Gipps set the poem to music for clarinet and piano.[7]
History[edit]
Writing in the 7th century Adamnan called Corryvreckan 'Charybdis Brecani'. In Adomnan of Iona's 'Life of St Columba', the saint supposedly has miraculous knowledge of a particular bishop who ran into the 'whirlpool of Corryvreckan'. However, Adomnan says that this whirlpool was near Rathlin Island, suggesting perhaps either his geography was mistaken (although several other Irish sources of that time period agreed with Adomnan), or alternatively that originally a different place was known as the whirlpool of Corryvreckan and later ages gave this name to the current Corryvreckan, perhaps believing it was the one that Adomnan and others had written about in the 8th century.[8]
Adomnan wrote:[8]
[15] Of the peril of the holy bishop Cólman moccu Sailni in the sea near Rathlin island: Likewise, another day, while St Columba was in his mother church, he suddenly smiled and called out: 'Cólman mac Beognai has set sail to come here, and is now in great danger in the surging tides of the whirlpool of Corryvreckan. Sitting in the prow, he lifts up his hands to heaven and blesses the turbulent, terrible seas. Yet the Lord terrifies him in this way, not so that the ship in which he sits should be overwhelmed and wrecked by the waves, but rather to rouse him to pray more fervently that he may sail through the peril and reach us here.'
In 1549, Dean Monro wrote of 'Skarbay' that between it and 'Duray': 'ther runnes ane streame, above the power of all sailing and rowing, with infinit dangers, callit Corybrekan. This stream is aught myle lang, quhilk may not be hantit bot be certain tyds.'[9]
In 1820 the world's first passenger paddleship the PS Comet was wrecked at nearby Craignish Point due to the strong currents in the area.
Writer George Orwell and his three-year-old son (who lived at Barnhill in northern Jura) were briefly shipwrecked on the skerry of Eilean Mòr (south of the whirlpool) when boating in the gulf,[10] and Orwell's one-legged brother-in-law Bill Dunn was the first person to swim the gulf.[11]
Natural history[edit]
Minke whales and porpoises swim in the fast-moving waters and only the most resilient plants and corals thrive on the seabed. Soft corals such as Alcyonium digitatum can be found in hollows and other sheltered locations. The central pinnacle supports dense mats of the hydroidsTubularia indivisa and Sertularia cupressina and the bryozoanSecuriflustra securifrons. The most exposed areas are covered by the barnacles Balanus crenatus and B. hameri.[12]
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The area is currently being considered for Special Area of Conservation status.
Modern cultural references[edit]
Atlantic Sailing Mac Os Catalina
Part of Powell's and Pressburger's 1945 film I Know Where I'm Going! was set at Corryvreckan. They filmed in Corryvreckan and the nearby (but less fierce) waters at Bealach a' Choin Ghlais ('the pass of the grey dog'). The footage obtained there was then used in back projections with the actors in a replica boat rocked on gimbals while buckets of water were thrown at them. Model shots of the whirlpool were made to give a medium view of the boat being drawn into Corryvreckan.
In mid-August 1947 the author George Orwell nearly drowned in the Corryvreckan whirlpool.[13][14] Seeking to focus his main energies on completing a novel destined to become the dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell had fled the distractions of London in April 1947 and taken up temporary residence on the isolated island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides.
This thesis concerns the careers of pirates in the latest stage of that career, as pirates prepared to end their roving of the seas in order to 'settle down.' Though pirates are idolized in modern fiction, their ends are often overshadowed by the highlights of their careers. Here, the goal is to find what motivated pirates to engage in a life as outlaws and then at some point choose to cast that life aside. Conclusions on this are drawn from both primary and secondary sources where pirates gave information pertaining to their view of the world and retirement in it, often without realizing it. The thesis explores the interactions pirates had with the governments acting within the Atlantic world and the natives who inhabited it. Lastly, the thesis concludes that sea rovers gained a great deal through piracy, yet to retire they surrendered at least some of what they gained. Of interest, then, is what was lost through what methods of retirement, and what was retained through others.
Recommended Citation
Henderson, Cory, 'Sunset Piracy: The Ends of Atlantic Piratical Careers in the Age of Sail' (2020). Honors Theses. 1452.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/1452
Creative Commons License
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The Gulf of Corryvreckan (from the GaelicCoire Bhreacain meaning 'cauldron of the speckled seas' or 'cauldron of the plaid'), also called the Strait of Corryvreckan, is a narrow strait between the islands of Jura and Scarba, in Argyll and Bute, off the west coast of mainland Scotland.
It is possible for tourists to visit the site by way of boat trips from local harbours or sightseeing flights from Oban Airport.
Topography[edit]
Strong Atlanticcurrents and unusual underwater topography conspire to produce a particularly intense tidal race in the Corryvreckan channel. As the flood tide enters the narrow area between the two islands it speeds up to 8.5 knots (16 km/h) and meets a variety of seabed features including a deep hole and a rising pinnacle. These features combine to create whirlpools, standing waves and a variety of other surface effects.
The Corryvreckan is the third largest whirlpool in the world, and is on the northern side of the gulf, surrounding a pyramid-shaped basalt pinnacle that rises from depths of 70 to 29 m (230 to 95 ft) at its rounded top. Flood tides and inflow from the Firth of Lorne to the west can drive the waters of Corryvreckan to waves of more than 30 ft (9 m), and the roar of the resulting maelstrom can be heard 10 mi (16 km) away.
Although not, as is sometimes believed, formally classified by the Royal Navy as unnavigable, the nearby Grey Dogs, or Little Corryvreckan, are classified as such.[1] The Admiralty's West Coast of Scotland Pilot guide to inshore waters calls it 'very violent and dangerous' and says 'no vessel should then attempt this passage without local knowledge'. Experienced scuba divers who have explored the waters have described it as 'potentially the most dangerous dive in Britain'.[2]
Mythology[edit]
In Scottish mythology the haggoddess of winter, Cailleach Bheur, uses the gulf to wash her great plaid, and this ushers in the turn of the seasons from autumn to winter. As winter approaches, she uses the gulf as her washtub, and it is said the roar of the coming tempest can be heard from as far away as twenty miles (thirty kilometres), lasting for a period of three days. When she is finished with the washing, the cloth is pure white, and becomes the blanket of snow that covers the land.[3] The Cailleach occupying the whirlpool was described as 'the fiercest of the Highland storm kelpies' by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor.[4]
Another legend surrounds Norse king Breacan. In various stories, Breacan moored his boat near the whirlpool to impress a local princess, or alternatively to flee from his father across the gulf. In both stories Breacan was swept into the whirlpool, and his body dragged ashore later by his dog. Breacan may be named after the whirlpool, or its current name may be a Gaelic pun on his name.
Charles Mackay's poem 'The Kelpie of Corrievreckan' tells the story of a young woman who leaves her lover for a sea kelpie.[5] She discovers too late that the kelpie lives at the bottom of the sea and she is drowned, 'an awful warning to all fickle maidens'. The words were adapted and set to music for piano and orchestra by Learmont Drysdale in the 1890s,[6] and in 1939 Ruth Gipps set the poem to music for clarinet and piano.[7]
History[edit]
Writing in the 7th century Adamnan called Corryvreckan 'Charybdis Brecani'. In Adomnan of Iona's 'Life of St Columba', the saint supposedly has miraculous knowledge of a particular bishop who ran into the 'whirlpool of Corryvreckan'. However, Adomnan says that this whirlpool was near Rathlin Island, suggesting perhaps either his geography was mistaken (although several other Irish sources of that time period agreed with Adomnan), or alternatively that originally a different place was known as the whirlpool of Corryvreckan and later ages gave this name to the current Corryvreckan, perhaps believing it was the one that Adomnan and others had written about in the 8th century.[8]
Adomnan wrote:[8]
[15] Of the peril of the holy bishop Cólman moccu Sailni in the sea near Rathlin island: Likewise, another day, while St Columba was in his mother church, he suddenly smiled and called out: 'Cólman mac Beognai has set sail to come here, and is now in great danger in the surging tides of the whirlpool of Corryvreckan. Sitting in the prow, he lifts up his hands to heaven and blesses the turbulent, terrible seas. Yet the Lord terrifies him in this way, not so that the ship in which he sits should be overwhelmed and wrecked by the waves, but rather to rouse him to pray more fervently that he may sail through the peril and reach us here.'
In 1549, Dean Monro wrote of 'Skarbay' that between it and 'Duray': 'ther runnes ane streame, above the power of all sailing and rowing, with infinit dangers, callit Corybrekan. This stream is aught myle lang, quhilk may not be hantit bot be certain tyds.'[9]
In 1820 the world's first passenger paddleship the PS Comet was wrecked at nearby Craignish Point due to the strong currents in the area.
Writer George Orwell and his three-year-old son (who lived at Barnhill in northern Jura) were briefly shipwrecked on the skerry of Eilean Mòr (south of the whirlpool) when boating in the gulf,[10] and Orwell's one-legged brother-in-law Bill Dunn was the first person to swim the gulf.[11]
Natural history[edit]
Minke whales and porpoises swim in the fast-moving waters and only the most resilient plants and corals thrive on the seabed. Soft corals such as Alcyonium digitatum can be found in hollows and other sheltered locations. The central pinnacle supports dense mats of the hydroidsTubularia indivisa and Sertularia cupressina and the bryozoanSecuriflustra securifrons. The most exposed areas are covered by the barnacles Balanus crenatus and B. hameri.[12]
Atlantic Sailing Mac Os X
The area is currently being considered for Special Area of Conservation status.
Modern cultural references[edit]
Atlantic Sailing Mac Os Catalina
Part of Powell's and Pressburger's 1945 film I Know Where I'm Going! was set at Corryvreckan. They filmed in Corryvreckan and the nearby (but less fierce) waters at Bealach a' Choin Ghlais ('the pass of the grey dog'). The footage obtained there was then used in back projections with the actors in a replica boat rocked on gimbals while buckets of water were thrown at them. Model shots of the whirlpool were made to give a medium view of the boat being drawn into Corryvreckan.
In mid-August 1947 the author George Orwell nearly drowned in the Corryvreckan whirlpool.[13][14] Seeking to focus his main energies on completing a novel destined to become the dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell had fled the distractions of London in April 1947 and taken up temporary residence on the isolated island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides.
On the return leg of an August boating day trip to nearby Glengarrisdale, Orwell seems to have misread the local tide tables and steered into rough seas that drove his boat near to the whirlpool. When the boat's small engine suddenly sheared off from its mounts and dropped into the sea, Orwell's party resorted to oars and was saved from drowning only when the whirlpool began to recede and the group managed to paddle the distressed craft to a rocky outcrop about 1 mi (2 km) distant from the Jura coastline. The boat capsized as the group tried to disembark, leaving Orwell, his two companions, and his three-year-old son stranded on the uninhabited outcrop with no supplies or means of escape. They were rescued only when passing lobstermen noticed a fire the party had lit in an effort to keep warm.[15] Orwell completed a first draft of Nineteen Eighty-Four about three months after the Corryvreckan incident, with the final manuscript not finished until late 1948.
The McCalmans have recorded a song called 'Corryvreckan Calling'.[16]
The Ardbeg distillery on the island of Islay produces a cask-strength whisky named Corryvreckan.[17] There is also a pub named after the gulf, located near to the harbour in Oban.[18]
Its changeability is used in the climactic ending of the novel Commissionaire Du Gui's Last Case by David Dow Millar, which occurs in the straits.[19]
Waterlog, a book by Roger Deakin, prominently features the Corryvreckan whirlpool as a driving force behind the book's premise - a wild swimming and bathing journey through Britain.[20]
Notes[edit]
- ^The West Coast pilot stated for the Little Corryvreckan or Grey Dog 'Passage conditions 7.260 – It is reported that the excessive rate of the tidal stream and the narrow width of the E entrance channel create an unnavigable area just S of Eilean a' Bhealaich, an islet in the centre of the E entrance. As a result, it is inadvisable to pass through this channel, and even with local knowledge passage should only be attempted in quiet weather at slack water.'
- ^Rogerson, Simon (1 March 2003). 'Diving: Perfect places to take the plunge'. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
- ^McNeill, F. Marian (1959), The Silver Bough, Vol.2: A Calendar of Scottish National Festivals, Candlemas to Harvest Home, William MacLellan, pp. 20–21, ISBN978-0-85335-162-7
- ^MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin (1937), The Peat-fire Flame, Moray Press, p. 117
- ^De Brerard, Frederick Brigham (1902), Fairyland and Fancy, Bodleian Society, p. iv
- ^University of Glasgow Manuscripts Catalogue MS Drysdale Cb10-y.29-31
- ^, W.R.A (July 1942), 'New Music', The Musical Times, 83 (1193): 208–211, JSTOR921816
- ^ abAdomnan of Iona. Life of St Columba. Penguin Books, 1995
- ^Monro (1594) 'Skarbay' No. 16. Translation from Scots: 'there runs a [tidal] stream, above the power of all sailing and rowing, with infinite dangers, called Corybrekan. This stream is eight miles [thirteen kilometres] long, and may not be frequented but at certain tides.'
- ^'Uisge! Isle of Jura Distillery'. www.uisge.com Accessed 19 November 2007
- ^'Whirl pull'[permanent dead link], Roger Deakin, Sunday Herald, 15 October 2008
- ^Wilding, T. A., Hughes, D. J. and Black, K. D. (2005) 'The benthic environment of the North and West of Scotland and the Northern and Western Isles: sources of information and overview.' (pdf) Report 1 to METOC. Oban. Scottish Association for Marine Science.
- ^'The masterpiece that killed George Orwell' The Observer. 10 May 2009 accessed 19 January 2021
- ^Taylor, D.J. (2003). Orwell: The Life. London: Chatto & Windus. pp. 385–7.
- ^Taylor, Supra.
- ^'Lyrics – Corryvreckan Calling'. the-mccalmans.com. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
- ^'Ardbeg Corryvreckan | Ardbeg'. www.ardbeg.com. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^'Oban and Fort William pubs shortlisted for CAMRA award'. The Oban Times. 27 September 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^The Missing Celebrity Chefs ISBN978-0-9929340-8-8
- ^Roger Deakin (1999). Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain. Chatto and Windus. ISBN0-7011-6652-5.
References[edit]
- Monro, Sir Donald (1549) Description of the Western Isles of Scotland. William Auld. Edinburgh - 1774 edition.
External links[edit]
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Coordinates: 56°9′12.89″N5°42′25.41″W / 56.1535806°N 5.7070583°W
