Largest ever gathering of pirates sets new record

The mass get together saw 1,722 men, women and children don eye patches and wear fake wooden legs. They gathered on a port side in Brixham, Devon, to take the record for the largest number of pirates in one place.
 
The previous record of 1,651 was set in Portland in America in September last year. Karen Barnes, a spokesman for the Brixham pirates, said: ''We feel wonderful. We have broken the world record.

''I am thrilled the town has beaten the record by 250. Everywhere you went there were pirates.''

A spokesman for Guinness World Records said the record would be verified in the coming weeks. 


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