Avast, ye seafaring scallywags! Have you ever wondered how pirates communicated with each other?  Walkie-talkies hadn’t been invented yet, and even the world’s biggest megaphone wouldn’t have been very helpful. So how did they do it? We asked Mary K. Bercaw Edwards from the Mystic Seaport Museum to help us find the answer.

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