I have gathered some information for you, so I guess you probably ought to pour yourself a dram of rum, cut a lime to stave off the scurvey, and come back here when you are ready, we are going to have a pirate moment.
ARRRRRR! Okay now hit play and read some stories. Now you ought to read the tale of Blackbeard first, if you haven't ever - this is the best telling I was able to find on the internet, and you should read it while "Queen Anne's Revenge" is still playing. Maybe you'll notice that the song gets the jolly roger all wrong, Blackbeard never flew a skull and bones, if he had, he'd have had a lot more enemies, since he was into murdering quite a bit more than other pirates, and traditionally the skull and bones meant an offer of quarter or mercy at the cost of surrender, if a pirate ruined that contract, he'd have a lot of pirates after him in addition to the navies who he had offended. If merchant ships thought they couldn't safely surrender, it would make pirates' jobs a lot harder.
Other pirate websites are far worse, but wikipedia remains hasty. Here are some of my favorites:
Long Ben
Blackbeard
Black Bart
Calico Jack
Jack Ward
Wikipedia doesn't seem to have a decent list of pirate ships, and this one is unverified:
Some notable pirate ships...
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