It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between truth and fiction when dealing with "Piracy of Old", as the personal accounts and events written about took place several hundred years ago. So many stories and tales have been told over the years that they begin to merge fantasy with reality. Therefore if you are using this website to help you write an historically factual account, you should keep this in mind and try to find other sources to check there accuracy.

    Most of the music and artwork used on this site was found by many long hours of searching the internet over the years for non-copyrighted material. Some is copyrighted and used by permission of the owner. Also some of the images presented within Brethren of the Coast were created exclusively for this website. I do not sell copies of the music or images used within. They are there strictly for site visitors to enjoy while browsing through it.

    A special thanks to artist Chris Collingwood for allowing the use of an image of his wonderful Blackbeard painting within the main page banner of Brethren of the Coast. You can see more of this fine artists work at www.collingwoodhistoricart.com Credit here also for artist Andy Thomas who's work "And the Band Played On" can be found on my sea shanties page.

    The music on this website was designed to be heard with one of the following "up to date" internet browsers: Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, or Safari. Below is a list of known musical composers/performers who's entertaining work can be heard playing in the background on some of this sites pages. If you like what you hear, support these artists by purchasing their CD's or Tunes, and listen to more of their music.