21-year-old Dale Gonzales makes Coastal Bend history as the first female pirate ship captain in the area. This is her first summer commanding the Red Dragon Pirate Cruises ship in Port Aransas.

Female pirates plundered alongside them, sometimes even commanded them. The unsung stories of seafaring women is now being told. This hour On Point, the Pirate Queens who terrorized the seven seas.

But last week came a change in the script. After closing April 23 for renovations, the iconic ride reopened June 8. Gone is the bride auction and with it, the idea of female subjugation as a ...

The female pirate captain, for example, is the boy “further along in life,” Raffi says. And the little girl in the rabbit mask? “She’s a very powerful character in the book.

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