For as long as there have been pirates lurking on the waves, there have been women among their feared, loathed, revered ranks. There was the Persian Queen Artemisia I of Halicarnassus, who faced off against the Greeks in 480 B.C. There was 14th-century Jeanne de Clisson, who preyed on French ships after the French king executed her husband. There was the American pirate Rachel Wall, who plundered alongside her husband in the late 18th century. These women did just about everything male pirates did, from fighting to cleaning the decks….
