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Sea captain from Guernsey widely credited as having transformed the economy of Costa Rica by establishing the Costa Rican coffee trade. United Kingdom: Yes 1802 1863 Ladd, William. American anti-war activist and New England sea captain who devoted his pen to preaching non-resistance during the War of 1812. United States: Yes 1778 1841 Lawrence ...
William McLellan (sea captain, born 1735) Thomas F. McManus; Luis de Mendoza (explorer) Marilyn Mercer Jones; Henry Meriton; Reuben Merrill; Simon Metcalfe; Thomas Humphrey Metcalfe; Betsy Miller; Konstantinos Mitragas; Hugh Montgomery (sea captain) Pierre Morpain; Thomas Mostyn (sea captain) Richard Murphy (sea captain) Thomas Musgrave (castaway)
Fictional sea pirate captains (20 P) Pages in category "Fictional sea captains" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
A New England sea captain who kidnapped Pacific Islanders aboard the Pioneer, providing labor for the plantations of Fiji. When Bully Hayes was arrested for piracy in Samoa, Pease helped him to escape. When next the Pioneer returned to port, Hayes was at the helm, and was rumored to have killed Pease during a fight.
The novel The Sea Lord (originally The Frigate Captain) by Showell Styles is about Lord Cochrane. Cochrane is one of the main characters in the novel Sharpe's Devil by Bernard Cornwell, taking place in 1821 and portraying Cochrane's attack on the Chilean port of Valdivia. [67]
Captain Smith was an experienced seaman who had served for 40 years at sea, including 27 years in command. This was the first crisis of his career, and he would have known that even if all the boats were fully occupied, more than a thousand people would remain on the ship as she went down, with little or no chance of survival. [ 23 ]
Emmanuel Iheanach, Minister of Federal Republic of Nigeria, Master Mariner, sea captain; Piet de Jong, Prime Minister of the Netherlands; Wayne Mapp, New Zealand politician; Alfred von Niezychowski, Polish noble, German Count, author and lecturer, and American politician; Jack O'Dell, prominent African-American member of the U.S. civil rights ...
Fictional sea captains (3 C, 35 P) Starfleet captains (43 P) Pages in category "Fictional ship captains" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.