The smallest pirate

This is a real story, for all those people who wonder if kids were really ever pirates.
John King was 11 when pirates captured the ship he and his mother were sailing on in the Caribbean. As he watched the pirates haul off the cargo of sugar and tobacco, John made a decision: he would leave his mother and join the pirate crew, led by Captain Sam Bellamy.
Now, 290 years later, John's remains have been found in the wreck of Bellamy's ship, the Whydah, 460 metres off the coast of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. While teenage pirates were common in the 18th century, John is considered to be the youngest ever identified.
You can read his story, and about the archaeologists who found the wreck, in the Sydney Morning Herald.