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Whydah Gally [1] / ˈ hw ɪ d ə ˈ ɡ æ l i, ˈ hw ɪ d ˌ ɔː / (commonly known simply as the Whydah) was a fully rigged ship that was originally built as a passenger, cargo, and slave ship. On the return leg of her maiden voyage of the triangle trade , Whydah Gally was captured by the pirate Captain Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy , beginning a ...
Late February – Black Sam Bellamy in the Sultana takes the Whydah Gally near Jamaica and keeps it for his own use. April 1 – Benjamin Hornigold and a pirate named Napping capture a large armed sloop, the Bennet, out of Jamaica. [1] April 4 – At Bluefield's Bay in Jamaica, Hornigold and Napping capture the sloop Revenge carrying a load of ...
Whydah Gally ( Great Britain): The slave ship was captured in late February in the Windward Passage by Sultana ("Black Sam" Bellamy). She wrecked in a storm off Cape Cod two months later, taking Bellamy, 143 men, and 4.5 tons of treasure with her – and was the first pirate ship wreck ever discovered in North America, in 1984.
The most famous vessel he added to his collection was the Whydah Gally. The Whydah became his flagship, a three-masted, 300-ton ship. Onboard was a fortune of gold, silver, and other valuable ...
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.
In the subsequent months, Bellamy and his crew would capture and loot many ships, including the Whydah in February 1717, a heavily armed slave galley which Bellamy claimed for his flagship. On April 26, 1717, the Whydah was wrecked in a storm off the coast of Cape Cod, killing Bellamy and most of his crew, including King.
In 1985, Clifford recovered the ship's bell, upon which were the words "THE WHYDAH GALLY 1716", the first incontrovertible evidence of his find. He subsequently founded The Whydah Pirate Museum on MacMillan Wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, which was later moved to West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, dedicated to Bellamy and the Whydah. It houses ...
Kinkor was the compiler and editor of the Whydah Sourcebook containing a vast collection of 17th and 18th century archival records concerning the history of the British slave ship Whydah Galley, its capture by the crew of pirate Samuel Bellamy, its demise at Cape Cod, and the court trial and testimonies of the surviving crew.