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2. Sailor of the King - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Edward Albert Gibbs - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Bartholomew Roberts - Wikipedia

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   Royal Fortune was found to be leaky and abandoned there. The pirates transferred to Sea King, which was renamed Royal Fortune. The new Royal Fortune made landfall off the Guinea coast in early June, near the mouth of the Senegal River. Two French ships, one of 10 guns and one of 16 guns, gave chase, but were captured by Roberts.

5. 1722 in piracy - Wikipedia

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   February 10 - Roberts' ship, Royal Fortune, is overtaken and defeated by Ogle in HMS Swallow. Roberts is killed and his crew is captured. [5] March 28 - 52 of Roberts' pirates are sentenced to death at Cape Coast Castle.

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7. HMS Fortune - Wikipedia

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   HMS Fortune (1699) was a storeship purchased in 1699 and wrecked in 1700. HMS Fortune (1700) was a storeship captured in 1700 and still on navy lists in 1702. HMS Fortune (1709) was a 24-gun storeship launched in 1709 and sold in 1713. HMS Fortune was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1744. She was captured by the French in 1745, was recaptured as an ...

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9. Thomas Sutton (pirate) - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Sutton had been a gunner aboard Howell Davis' 32-gun Royal Rover as they cruised off the Gold Coast taking a number of prizes in 1719. Davis tried tricking the governor of Principe into boarding his ship; the governor saw through his deception, turned the tables, and had his soldiers ambush and kill Davis as he came ashore.