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Charles Vane (c. 1680 – 29 March 1721) was an English pirate who operated in the Bahamas during the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. Vane was likely born in the Kingdom of England around 1680. One of his first pirate ventures was under the leadership of Henry Jennings , during Jennings' attack on the salvage camp for the wrecked Spanish 1715 ...
In January 2014, McGowan joined the cast of the Starz dramatic adventure TV series Black Sails, playing a fictionalized version of the real-life 18th-century English pirate Charles Vane. The role called for an English actor, so McGowan, an American, affected an accent.
Charles Vane (born William George Yarrow; 2 January 1860 – 14 April 1943) was a British stage and film actor. Vane appeared in more than fifty films during the silent era including the lead in When It Was Dark (1919).
Captain Charles Vane is best known for cruel punishment, being ousted by Captain John Rackham (Calico Jack), and stubbornly refusing the king’s pardon. Not much is known about Vane’s early life.
Zach McGowan as Charles Vane: Captain of the Ranger and the Fancy, Steward of Fort Nassau. (seasons 1–3) [4] Toby Schmitz as Jack Rackham: Quartermaster of the Ranger and later Brothel manager and Captain of the Colonial Dawn and the Lion. [4] Clara Paget as Anne Bonny: Crew Mate of the Ranger and later of the Colonial Dawn and the Lion. [4]
The first record of him is as quartermaster on Charles Vane's brigantine Ranger in 1718, operating out of New Providence island in the Bahamas, which was a notorious base for pirates known as the "Pirates' republic". [4] Vane and his crew robbed several ships outside New York City, then encountered a large French man-of-war. The ship was at ...
Anne Bonny [a] (disappeared after 28 November 1720) [4] was a pirate who served under John "Calico Jack" Rackham.Amongst the few recorded female pirates in history, [5] she has become one of the most recognized pirates of the Golden Age of Piracy as well as in the history of piracy in general.
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