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The Revenue Cutter Active captured the pirate vessel India Libre in the Chesapeake Bay on July 18 in 1818. On 1819 August 31. The Capture of the schooner Bravo led by Pirate Captain Jean Le Farges’ vessel engaged cutters Louisiana and Alabama off the coast of Florida. The cutters’ crews boarded the enemy and took the ship in a hand-to-hand ...
Paulsgrave Williams (c. 1675 – after 1723), first name occasionally Paul, Palsgrave, or Palgrave, was a pirate who was active 1716–1723 and sailed in the Caribbean, American eastern seaboard, and off West Africa.
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 Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found is a 2017 nonfiction children's book by Martin W. Sandler about the Whydah, "a large, fast, and heavily armed slave ship", which was captured by pirates in 1716 and sunk shortly after. The ship was rediscovered on the ocean's floor in the 1980s, along with its tremendous riches.
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates , and vessels used for piracy are called pirate ships .
At least one written matelotage agreement survives in historical records; it was between two pirates residing at Port Dolphin on Madagascar in 1699. [6] Other potential pirate matelotage unions such as that of John Swann and Robert Culliford, who were pirates in the Indian Ocean during the late 17th century are sometimes described as romantic but are not referred to as matelotage in British ...
As negotiations continued the following morning, 22 February, a pirate aboard the SY Quest fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the Sterett from 600 yards away but it missed. Almost immediately afterward, gunfire was heard aboard the yacht, so a boarding party was sent in on a raft and they boarded the SY Quest. In a brief skirmish that followed ...
Barry Clifford (born May 30, 1945) is an American underwater archaeological explorer.. Around 1982, Clifford began discovering the remains of the Whydah Gally, [1] a former slave ship captured by pirate Samuel Bellamy which sunk in 1717, during the Golden Age of Piracy.