Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The Exploress
Episode: Lady Pirates and Queen Elizabeth I's Golden Age of Piracy
Description: Season 5, Episode 12. Today we'll learn how Queen Elizabeth I strategically defeated the Invincible Spanish Armada by allowing famous pirates like Sir Francis Drake and Sir Thomas Cavendish to take over the Royal Navy and fight on her behalf as "privateers." We'll also learn what life was like on a pirate ship in the Elizabethan age, why women were historically not allowed to be pirates, and how some women became pirates anyway. We'll meet Anne Bonny and Mary Read, the cross dressing swashbucklers of the Bahamas, and we'll meet Grace O'Malley, the Irish Pirate Queen who defended her land against...