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In a flashback about Captain Haddock's ancestor, Captain Sir Francis Haddock, it is shown how Francis' ship is attacked by the pirate captain Red Rackham and his crew. At first the pirates raise the "black Jolly Roger", but when Francis refuses to strike his flag and bombards the pirates with cannon fire, the pirates instead "hoists fresh ...
Painting showing a French First Republic privateer flying a black Jolly Roger, signed and dated “Nicolas Cammillieri pinxit 1811”, with the inscription: “On the 14 Germinal year 7 of the French Republic (3 April 1796), in the Bay of Colonia on the coast of Spain, 4-hour long fight of the privateer Mouche, armed with an 8-pounder swivel gun, under Captain Jean Adrian, against a 16-nine ...
The capture of the sloop Ranger was a naval battle which occurred on June 10, 1723 near Block Island in the Atlantic Ocean.Two pirate ships under the command of Englishmen Edward Low and Charles Harris attacked HMS Greyhound, a post ship of the British Royal Navy which they mistook for a civilian whaler.
After a three-day chase, Prince surrendered his ship near the Bahamas with only a desultory exchange of cannon fire. Bellamy decided to take Whydah Gally as his new flagship; several of her crew remained with their ship and joined the pirate gang. Pirate recruitment was most effective among the unemployed, escaped bondsmen, and transported ...
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September - Rackham and his pirates loot several fishing boats in the Bahamas. They then raid French Hispaniola for cattle and capture two sloops. Roberts returns to the Caribbean, bombards Saint Kitts and burns two ships in the harbor. Some weeks later, Roberts captures a French ship near Carriacou and commandeers it, renaming it the Royal ...
Although she was refloated and taken into Copenhagen, she disappeared from subsequent ship arrival and departure data. Adventure (1802 ship) was a schooner launched at Liverpool. She made three voyages as a slave ship before a French privateer captured her in 1806 on her fourth voyage. Adventure (1804 ship) was a