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On 5 February 1722, Captain Chaloner Ogle of HMS Swallow came upon the pirate ships Royal Fortune, Ranger, and Little Ranger at Cape Lopez. Swallow veered away to avoid a shoal , making the pirates think that she was a fleeing merchant ship; some sources claim Ogle spotted Roberts' ships and turned Swallow as a ruse. [ 37 ]
HMS Cleopatra herself had a distinguished war record, as she was Admiral Vian's flagship at the Second Battle of Sirte, when she was one of four light cruisers which drove off the Italian battleship Littorio and two heavy cruisers in one of the major cruiser actions of the war. The film's battle sequences depict this light cruiser firing her ...
In February 1722 Roberts's Royal Fortune and its two escorts were intercepted by the warship HMS Swallow under Captain Chaloner Ogle. The ensuing battle was fierce; Skyrme was maimed and Roberts was killed, and all three ships were captured. Imprisoned, Sutton was chained in the hold next to a man who prayed constantly.
Twenty-two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fortune: HMS Fortune (1512) was a ship in service in 1512. HMS Fortune (1522) was a ship in service in 1522. HMS Fortune (1627) was a ship, formerly the French Fortunee. She was captured in 1627 and last appears on navy lists in 1635. HMS Fortune (1649) was a 12-gun Royalist ship ...
HMS Sherwood – British Royal Navy cruiser, Carry on Admiral, 1957; IJN Shinaru – Japanese aircraft carrier, Torpedo Run, 1958; Silent Mary – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, 2017; Skyline (天涯号) – Chinese cruise ship, The Precipice Game, 2016; HMS Solent – British Royal Navy destroyer, Sink the Bismarck!, 1960
Brigantine Good Fortune (18 April 1721 - April 1723) Thomas Anstis (died April 1723) was an early 18th-century pirate, who served under Captain Howell Davis and Captain Bartholomew Roberts , before setting up on his own account, raiding shipping on the eastern coast of the American colonies and in the Caribbean during what is often referred to ...
HMS Fortune was one of nine F-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. Although she was assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion, the ship was detached to the Mediterranean Fleet to enforce the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39.
Gibbs joined the Royal Navy in 1923. He was a commander at the outbreak of war in 1939. He commanded the destroyer HMS Fortune from July 1939 to November 1940 and then the destroyer HMS Pathfinder from January 1942 to November 1943. Gibbs was promoted to the rank of captain in December 1946 and retired from the Royal Navy in February 1949.