Thursday, August 27, 2015

Red Flag Fleet and its Code of Conduct

Under the leadership of Mrs. Cheng a confederation of some fifty thousand pirates sailed in two hundred oceangoing junks, between six and eight hundred coastal vessels, and dozens of river junks. The pirates attacked fishing, cargo vessels, and oceangoing junks. The Red Flag Fleet operated in and dominated the coastal waters of southern China. 

The rules for conduct for the pirates of the Red Fleet were more stringent than those practiced by the pirates of the West Indies.

Offence                           Punishment
Disobeying orders           Death by beheading
Stealing                           Death by beheading
Deserting                         Loss of both ears
Concealing or                  Flogged
holding back                      
plundered goods             

If any of these offences were repeated you would be suffer death. We can assume that the poor retches would die a slow and torturous death.


Under the Black Flag, David Cordingly

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