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Stone found below St. Patrick's Well. St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. Other places named after Saint Patrick include: Patrickswell Lane, a well in Drogheda Town where St. Patrick opened a monastery and baptised the townspeople. Ardpatrick, County Limerick (from Irish Ard Pádraig, meaning 'high place of Patrick') [144] [failed ...
A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by the Welsh writer Richard Hughes, which was made into a film of the same name in 1965. Hughes's first novel, it was set in the late nineteenth century and followed a group of seven children captured by pirates on a voyage from Jamaica.
HMS Surprise is the third historical novel in the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1973.The series follows the partnership of Royal Navy Captain Jack Aubrey and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin during the wars against Napoleonic France.
Fleming also used, and extensively quoted, information about voodoo from his friend Patrick Leigh Fermor's 1950 book The Traveller's Tree, [23] which had also been partly written at Goldeneye. [ 25 ] Fleming had a long-held interest in pirates, from the novels he read as a child through to films such as Captain Blood (1935) with Errol Flynn ...
The couple is said to have operated out of Sandy Point (Flat Island) on the Western Shore of Newfoundland Island. They are a part of Canadian pirate lore, and Maria Lindsay has been dubbed "the Canadian Pirate Queen." A fictional, romantic novel based on described events in pirate literature about Eric Cobham and Maria Lindsay exists. [3]
Searle's first known ship was the 60-ton, 8-gun Cagway, the largest of four Spanish merchantmen captured by Sir Christopher Myngs as he returned from his raid on Santa Marta and Tolú in 1659. Four years later, Searle captained the Cagway as part of Myng's expedition against Santiago de Cuba .
In June 1722, Ashton was captured by pirates while fishing near the coast of Shelburne, Nova Scotia. In the Boston News Letter of 9 July 1722, Ashton was listed as being one of those captured by the pirate Edward Low. [1] As Ashton refused to co-operate with the pirates, he was often threatened, especially by Low's quartermaster John Russell.
December – Another frigate, the Guernsey, is sent by Governor Thomas Lynch to capture Jean Hamlin however Hamlin manages to elude being captured once again. With ex-buccaneers such as John Coxen closing in, Hamlin fled from his base in Ile-la-vache sailing towards St. Thomas where he was given sanctuary by governor Adolph Esmit.