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The capture of the sloop Ranger was a naval battle which occurred on June 10, 1723 near Block Island in the Atlantic Ocean.Two pirate ships under the command of Englishmen Edward Low and Charles Harris attacked HMS Greyhound, a post ship of the British Royal Navy which they mistook for a civilian whaler.
Some weeks later, Roberts captures a French ship near Carriacou and commandeers it, renaming it the Royal Fortune. October - Pirates under Rackham's leadership ransack several vessels off northern Jamaica. October - Rackham and his crew are captured by a commissioned sloop commanded by Jonathan Barnet. After the William's boom is damaged, the ...
Sailing their four-gun sloop (now renamed “Scowerer”) to Hispaniola, they soon captured a Spanish sloop. Because their crew was so small, Evans and his men shared out loot of £150 per man. [3] They captured another vessel near the Windward Islands, forcing several sailors to join their crew before releasing the ship. [4]
March 28 – One of Blackbeard's lieutenants, captain Richard and his sloop Revenge, attack the 400-ton Protestant Caesar in the Bay of Honduras. March–April – Charles Vane and 12 pirates capture a Jamaica sloop in the Bahamas, retaining her for his own use. April – Vane captures the sloop Lark in the Bahamas and transfers his crew to her ...
September 29 – "Gentleman Pirate" Stede Bonnet, who has traded plantation life for a pirate ship, transfers command of his sloop, the Revenge, to Blackbeard. November 28 – Blackbeard captures the French slave ship La Concorde near Martinique, equips her with 40 guns, and renames her the Queen Anne's Revenge.
The pirates employed the same tactic as before, surprising the crew while they were distracted with the cargo. [33] Cofresí then mugged Anne ' s captain, Beagle ' s navigator John Low, stealing $20 from him. [30] The ship's crew was forced to leap overboard and were left behind while the pirates commandeered the vessel. [30]
On 27 May 2007 a UK documentary/reality show titled Pirate Ship ... Live! followed a team of divers, including comedian Vic Reeves, in live coverage of a dive at the Whydah Gally site. [28] On 7 January 2008 the National Geographic Channel aired a 2-hour documentary about the ongoing excavation of the wreck. It included detailed interviews with ...
They forced the ship's cooper to sign their Articles by beating him and threatening to behead him with an axe. Lyne burned the sloop and sailed for the Guianas. [3] [4] Near Curaçao in late 1725 two pirate hunting sloops were searching for Spanish pirates but captured Lyne and the Sea Nymph instead. [2] Many of his crew were killed in the battle.