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Some weeks later, Roberts captures a French ship near Carriacou and commandeers it, renaming it the Royal Fortune. October - Pirates under Rackham's leadership ransack several vessels off northern Jamaica. October - Rackham and his crew are captured by a commissioned sloop commanded by Jonathan Barnet. After the William's boom is damaged, the ...
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 .
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 as the "Golden Age of Piracy".
September 29 – "Gentleman Pirate" Stede Bonnet, who has traded plantation life for a pirate ship, transfers command of his sloop, the Revenge, to Blackbeard. November 28 – Blackbeard captures the French slave ship La Concorde near Martinique, equips her with 40 guns, and renames her the Queen Anne's Revenge.
The pirates employed the same tactic as before, surprising the crew while they were distracted with the cargo. [33] Cofresí then mugged Anne ' s captain, Beagle ' s navigator John Low, stealing $20 from him. [30] The ship's crew was forced to leap overboard and were left behind while the pirates commandeered the vessel. [30]
Sailing their four-gun sloop (now renamed “Scowerer”) to Hispaniola, they soon captured a Spanish sloop. Because their crew was so small, Evans and his men shared out loot of £150 per man. [3] They captured another vessel near the Windward Islands, forcing several sailors to join their crew before releasing the ship. [4]
The sloop was then assigned to the Pacific Squadron and departed 6 September for the west coast, steaming via St. Thomas, ports in Brazil, Montevideo, round Cape Horn, to Valparaíso, joining Rear Adm. Dahlgren in Powhatan at Callao, Peru on 25 April 1867 and then steaming up the Pacific coast, through Panama and the coast of Mexico, arriving ...
But Experiment sank two of the attacking craft, and killed and wounded many of the pirates, suffering only one man wounded. [2] On 12 January captured schooner "Anne' (or Anna). [3] She was sent to Philadelphia where the ship was released by the Court in July. [4] On 2 February she captured a sloop. [5]