Boarding CutlassFor sale
The cutlass was the sailor's sword of the Age of Sail: short, broad-bladed, and basket-guarded, built for the crowded chaos of a boarding action where a long blade fouled in rigging and a delicate one broke on a boarding pike. Navies issued it by the rack, pirates made it their emblem, and it outlasted every other edged weapon in shipboard service — the U.S. Navy did not formally retire its last cutlass until the twentieth century.