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Vane commandeered a small 24-gun sloop, the Katherine, and escaped out the smaller entrance as Rogers' ships returned. [10] Vane took ships off the Bahamas in July, working with Charles Yeats, the original captain of the Katherine. A brigantine that Vane captured became his new flagship. [11] In August he sailed to Charleston and took eight ...
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]
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.
Vane later faced mutiny by his crew members, who disapproved of his wicked ways and selfishness. Eventually, Vane was ditched as captain and left on a small ship and in his place, his quartermaster, Calico Jack, was named captain. Vane was imprisoned in Port Royal by Captain Holford in 1719. Vane's former accomplices spoke out against him ...
Rackham deposed Charles Vane from his position as captain of the sloop Ranger, then cruised the Leeward Islands, Jamaica Channel and Windward Passage. He accepted the King's Pardon in 1719 and moved to New Providence, where he met Anne Bonny, who was married to James Bonny at the time. He returned to piracy in 1720 by stealing a British sloop ...
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 ...
Late February – Charles Vane's sloop is wrecked in the Bay of Honduras by a waterspout.Most of the pirates are drowned, and Vane is stranded on an island. He is rescued some weeks later, but is subsequently recognized and turned over to the constabulary in Jamaica.
Captain Vincent Pearse sailed his ship HMS Phoenix to the Caribbean in March 1718 to deliver the news, in the process capturing Charles Vane, who had refused the offer of pardon. [1] Hornigold, Francis Leslie , Josiah Burgess , and Thomas Nichols – de facto leaders of the pirates – urged Pearse to release Vane as a show of good faith to the ...