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2. Bartholomew Roberts - Wikipedia

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   Royal Fortune was found to be leaky and abandoned there. The pirates transferred to Sea King, which was renamed Royal Fortune. The new Royal Fortune made landfall off the Guinea coast in early June, near the mouth of the Senegal River. Two French ships, one of 10 guns and one of 16 guns, gave chase, but were captured by Roberts.

3. Richard Shipton - Wikipedia

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   In 1723, Shipton was elected captain of Merry Christmas, [2] and he subsequently captained ships such as Royal Fortune, York, [3] and John and Mary. [4] Forced to beach his vessel on western Cuba by pirate hunters, [5] in early 1726, he was found ashore in his bed [6] and presumed to have died shortly afterwards. [7]

4. 1722 in piracy - Wikipedia

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   February 10 - Roberts' ship, Royal Fortune, is overtaken and defeated by Ogle in HMS Swallow. Roberts is killed and his crew is captured. [5] March 28 - 52 of Roberts' pirates are sentenced to death at Cape Coast Castle.

5. Edward Albert Gibbs - Wikipedia

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   In April 1940, HMS Fortune escorted the aircraft carriers HMS Ark Royal and HMS Glorious while they provided air cover for the evacuation of British forces from Åndalsnes and Namsos during the Norwegian Campaign. In September 1940, HMS Fortune was part of Operation Menace, escorting Force M for the intended Free French landings at Dakar.

6. Thomas Anstis - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Anstis (died April 1723) was an early 18th-century pirate, who served under Captain Howell Davis and Captain Bartholomew Roberts, before setting up on his own account, raiding shipping on the eastern coast of the American colonies and in the Caribbean during what is often referred to as the "Golden Age of Piracy".

7. Thomas Sutton (pirate) - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Sutton had been a gunner aboard Howell Davis' 32-gun Royal Rover as they cruised off the Gold Coast taking a number of prizes in 1719. Davis tried tricking the governor of Principe into boarding his ship; the governor saw through his deception, turned the tables, and had his soldiers ambush and kill Davis as he came ashore.

8. HMS Fortune - Wikipedia

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   HMS Fortune (1699) was a storeship purchased in 1699 and wrecked in 1700. HMS Fortune (1700) was a storeship captured in 1700 and still on navy lists in 1702. HMS Fortune (1709) was a 24-gun storeship launched in 1709 and sold in 1713. HMS Fortune was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1744. She was captured by the French in 1745, was recaptured as an ...

9. HMS Fortune (H70) - Wikipedia

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   HMS Fortune was one of nine F-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. Although she was assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion, the ship was detached to the Mediterranean Fleet to enforce the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39.