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Captain Flint is a fictional character in the book Treasure Island, created by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883. [1] In Stevenson's book, Flint, whose first name is not given, was the captain of a pirate ship, Walrus, which accumulated an enormous amount of captured treasure, approximately £700,000.
Lee, Robert E., Blackbeard the Pirate, North Carolina: John F. Blair (1974) ISBN 0-89587-032-0; Moss, Jeremy (2020). The Life and Tryals of the Gentleman Pirate, Major Stede Bonnet. Virginia Beach: Koehler Books. p. 228. ISBN 978-1646631513.
Before he was briefly a pirate captain, he was a sailor on the Batchelor's Delight which circumnavigated the globe with William Dampier. Mary Read: 1690–1721 to 1720 England Along with Anne Bonny, one of few known female pirates. When captured, Read escaped hanging by claiming she was pregnant, but died soon after of a fever while still in ...
Panamanian cargo ship; torpedoed by U-404. [36] Normannia: 17 January 1924 Foundered in a storm at Frying Pan Shoals. Northeastern United States: 30 December 1904 American tanker; ran aground on Diamond Shoals. Norvana United States: 19 January 1942 American freighter; torpedoed off Cape Hatteras by U-123. [40] CSS North Carolina Confederate ...
Captain Flint: Treasure Island: 1883: Novel: The pirate captain who hid his treasures on the novel's titular island. Sea Hag: Thimble Theatre/Popeye: 1929: Comics: The Sea Hag is a major enemy of Popeye the Sailor. She is the last witch on earth, and a pirate who sails the Seven Seas in
James Flint (Chinese name: 洪任輝, Hóng Rènhuī, 1720 — unknown) [1] was an 18th-century British merchant and diplomat employed by the East India Company and noted for his role in precipitating the Canton System of Chinese trade with the West.
He spent more than fourteen years in the hydrographic survey, chiefly in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Wilmington, North Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia. A channel in Charleston Harbor still bears his name. In 1857, Maffitt was placed in command of the brig USS Dolphin and ordered to capture pirates and slavers in the ...
James Wimble (fl. January 31, 1696 – c. March 23, 1743) was an English mariner, trader, and landowner who created the premier coastal chart of North Carolina of the 18th century. Wimble sold plots of land for a settlement on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina which would eventually become Wilmington, North Carolina .