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What are the Cinque Ports?
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Clotilda
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When pirates ruled Asia’s waves
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Into the jaws of hell: the WW2 sinking of USS
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Tails from the deep: separating the real folklore of mermaids from Disney stories
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Hell on high water: the rise and fall of the golden age of piracy
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The sinking of the
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Narvik in context
How battle for Norway in 1940 saved Britain
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Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate: how a mid-life crisis created the ‘worst pirate of all time’
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Britannia and beyond: a history of royal yachts
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Raising the Mary Rose
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The mysterious men on-board
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"Hopes and dreams"
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