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January – French pirate Jean Hamlin takes the British ship Thomas and William, Richard North commander, near the Isle of Ash, off Hispaniola. Later, the crew reluctantly lets a French man-of-war escorting two Guinea ships continue unharmed. After trading peacefully with Adolph Esmit, Governor of St. Thomas, Hamlin captures a ketch out of ...
Some weeks later, Roberts captures a French ship near Carriacou and commandeers it, renaming it the Royal Fortune. October - Pirates under Rackham's leadership ransack several vessels off northern Jamaica. October - Rackham and his crew are captured by a commissioned sloop commanded by Jonathan Barnet. After the William's boom is damaged, the ...
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 .
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a timeline of the history of piracy. Piracy in ancient history; Piracy in post-classical history; 1560s; 1570s; 1580s ...
Stories and histories from the Golden Age form the foundation of many modern depictions of pirates and piracy. A General History of the Pirates (1724) by Captain Charles Johnson is the source of many biographies of well-known pirates, providing an extensive account of the period. [36]
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 ...
Pirates, privateers, corsairs, and buccaneers were active in the Bay of Honduras from the 1540s to the 1860s. This is an annotated, chronological list of such events, with sortable tables provided. This is an annotated, chronological list of such events, with sortable tables provided.
Bartholomew Roberts or Black Bart was successful in sinking, or capturing and pillaging some 400 ships. [19] and like most pirate captains of the time he looked fancy doing it. [28] He started his freebooting career in the Gulf of Guinea in February 1719 when Howell Davis' pirates captured his ship and he proceeded to join them. Rising to ...