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Thomas Anstis
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". Early career Anstis is first recorded as a member of the sloop ''Buck'', which sailed from New Providence in the Bahamas in 1718 (the ship having arrived there with Governor Woodes Rogers). During the course of the voyage, Anstis conspired with six other crew members (including Walter Kennedy and Howell Davis) to attempt a mutiny aboard the ship which, upon doing so, stated their intentions to sail southward as pirates. Howell Davis was elected captain. After Davis' death Bartholomew Roberts replaced him as captain, and eventually had several ships. Anstis commanded one of these, the brigantine ''Good Fortune''. Roberts, Fenn & Admiral Flowers During the night of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirate
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, vessels used for piracy are pirate ships. The earliest documented instances of piracy were in the 14th century BC, when the Sea Peoples, a group of ocean raiders, attacked the ships of the Aegean and Mediterranean civilisations. Narrow channels which funnel shipping into predictable routes have long created opportunities for piracy, as well as for privateering and commerce raiding. Historic examples include the waters of Gibraltar, the Strait of Malacca, Madagascar, the Gulf of Aden, and the English Channel, whose geographic structures facilitated pirate attacks. The term ''piracy'' generally refers to maritime piracy, although the term has been generalized to refer to acts committed on land, in the air, on computer networks, and (in scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fenn (pirate)
John Fenn (died May 1723) was an early 18th-century English pirate who sailed with Captain Bartholomew Roberts and later had a brief partnership with Thomas Anstis. Biography Although much of his early career is unrecorded, he was a member of Captain Roberts's fleet in June 1719 to April 1720, until leaving with fellow member Thomas Anstis, who was awarded command of the 21-gun ''Morning Star'' shortly before leaving the West Indies for the West African coast during the night of 21 April 1721. Remaining with Anstis in the Caribbean, Fenn participated in the capture of three or four merchant ships near Hispaniola, Jamaica and Martinique during the month of June before being given command of the 21-gun ''Morning Star''.Some accounts have Anstis keeping ''Morning Star'' and granting his own ship ''Good Fortune'' to Brigstock Weaver; and according to Henry Treehill, who testified at Brigstock Weaver's trial, John Fenn was elected captain of the Antelope after Anstis' crew committed m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curaçao
Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast. It is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Together with Aruba and Bonaire, it forms the ABC islands. Collectively, Curaçao, Aruba, and other Dutch islands in the Caribbean are often called the Dutch Caribbean. Curaçao was formerly part of the Curaçao and Dependencies colony from 1815 to 1954 and later the Netherlands Antilles from 1954 to 2010, as Island Territory of Curaçao ( nl, Eilandgebied Curaçao, links=no, pap, Teritorio Insular di Kòrsou, links=no), and is now formally called the Country of Curaçao. It includes the main island of Curaçao and the much smaller, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao ("Little Curaçao"). Curaçao has a population of 158,665 (January 2019 est.), with an area of ; its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Winchelsey (1708)
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Winchelsea'', or the archaic variant HMS ''Winchelsey'', after the Sussex town of Winchelsea: * was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1694 and captured by four French privateers in 1706. * was a 26-gun fifth rate launched in 1706 and lost in a hurricane in 1707. * was a 36-gun fifth rate purchased in 1708. She was captured by the French in 1709, but was retaken a month later. She was reduced to a sixth rate in 1716 and was broken up in 1735. * was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1740. She was captured by the French in 1758, but was retaken two weeks later. She was broken up in 1761. * was a cutter purchased in 1763 and sunk as a breakwater in 1774. * was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1764. She was rebuilt in 1782, converted into a prison ship in 1805 and was sold in 1814. * was an Admiralty W-class destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, manoeuvrable, long-endurance warship intended to escort lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobago
Tobago () is an List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, island and Regions and municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago, ward within the Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located northeast of the larger island of Trinidad and about off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. It also lies to the southeast of Grenada. The official bird of Tobago is the cocrico. Etymology Tobago was named ''Belaforme'' by Christopher Columbus "because from a distance it seemed beautiful". The Spanish friar Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa wrote that the Kalina people, Kalina (mainland Caribs) called the island ''Urupina'' because of its resemblance to a big snail, while the Island Caribs, Kalinago (Island Caribs) called it ''Aloubaéra'', supposedly because it resembled the ''alloüebéra'', a giant snake which was supposed to live in a cave on the island of Dominica. The earliest known record of the use of the name ''Tabaco'' to refer to the island is a Spanish royal order is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montigny La Palisse
Montigny La Palisse (fl. 1720–1721) was a French pirate best known for his association with Bartholomew Roberts. History There is little information on La Palisse’s activities before he joined Roberts in February 1720. Roberts had been active across the Caribbean. Near Barbados on February 19, 1720, Roberts in the ''Fortune'' spotted a sloop, hoisted his black flag, and gave chase. The sloop responded with a black flag of its own: it was the 6-gun, 63-man ''Sea King'' under Saint-Malo’s Montigny La Palisse, and so ''Fortune'' and ''Sea King'' sailed in concert. Authorities in Barbados equipped two ships to attack Roberts. La Palisse fled in the ''Sea King'' after its rigging was damaged, leaving Roberts to face the warships alone. Roberts escaped but ''Fortune'' was heavily damaged, and narrowly avoided capture again when two additional ships from Martinique pursued him. That July Roberts took several French prize ships, transferring to the largest and renaming it ''Good ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigstock Weaver
Brigstock Weaver (born 1686 – died 1767) ( fl. 1720–1725, first name occasionally Bridstock) was an English pirate active in the Caribbean. He is best known for his association with fellow pirates Thomas Anstis and Bartholomew Roberts. History Weaver had been first mate of the ''Mary and Martha'' when they were captured near Saint Kitts in 1720 by Bartholomew Roberts and Montigny la Palisse, who burned the ship and forced the crew to sign their Articles. Roberts took several more vessels, keeping the best of them for himself and placing Thomas Anstis in command of his previous ship ''Good Fortune''. Weaver joined Anstis as first mate. In April 1721 Anstis broke off from Roberts and took the ''Good Fortune'' with him. Soon after Anstis captured the ''Morning Star'', fitting it out as his own ship and forcing Weaver to command the ''Good Fortune.'' Weaver continued piracy on his own throughout 1722, looting over fifty ships from the Caribbean to Newfoundland. He met An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahama Islands
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago's population. The archipelagic state consists of more than 3,000 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and northwest of the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes The Bahamas' territory as encompassing of ocean space. The Bahama Islands were inhabited by the Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taíno, for many centuries. Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making his first landfall in the "New World" in 1492 when he landed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Of Honduras
The Gulf or Bay of Honduras is a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea, indenting the coasts of Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. From north to south, it runs for approximately 200 km (125 miles) from Dangriga, Belize, to La Ceiba, Honduras. The inner Gulf of Honduras is lined by the Belize Barrier Reef which forms the southern part of the 900 km (600 mile) long Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the second-largest coral reef system in the world. The Belize Barrier Reef includes a number of small islands, called cays, and collectively known as the Pelican Cays. The Gulf of Honduras is marked by complex dynamics of coastal and open waters, and ocean currents, which have produced a very diverse and unique ecosystem with a wide variety of coastal marine waters, including coastline estuaries, barrier beaches, lagoons, intertidal salt marshes, mangrove forests, seagrass beds, keys and barrier reefs. The gulf receives the runoff from the watersheds of 12 rivers with an estimate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Adventure (1709)
Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named ''Adventure''. A thirteenth was planned but never completed: * was a 26-gun galley launched in 1594 and broken up 1645. * was a 32-gun ship launched in 1646, rebuilt in 1691 and captured by the French in 1709. * was a 40-gun fifth rate launched in 1709 and broken up in 1741. * was a fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1741, rebuilt as a 32-gun fifth rate in 1758, and sold in 1770. * was a 12-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1768. * was a survey ship, originally a collier named ''Marquis of Rockingham''. She was purchased in 1771 and renamed ''Rayleigh'', then renamed ''Adventure'' later that year. She accompanied on James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific (1772–1775). She returned to mercantile service after Cook's expedition; she was sunk in the Saint Lawrence River in 1811. * was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1784 and broken up in 1816. * HMS ''Adventure'' was a 10-gun transport launched in 1809 as . She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Hector (1703)
Eleven ships of the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Hector'', named after the Trojan hero Hector in the Iliad. * The first was a 22-gun ship sold in 1656. * The second was a 30-gun ship sold in 1657. * The third was a 22-gun ship sunk by the Dutch Navy in 1665. * The fourth was a 44-gun fourth rate launched in 1703 and broken up in 1742. * The fifth was another 44-gun fourth rate sold in 1762. * The sixth was cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1773. * The seventh was a 74-gun third rate launched at Deptford in 1774 and converted to a prison ship in 1808. * The eighth was a 74-gun third rate captured from France in April 1782 that foundered in October. * The ninth was the first ship of her class of iron steam propelled battleships and launched in 1862, and scrapped in 1905. * The tenth was a requisitioned merchant ship used as a kite balloon ship in the Dardanelles campaign (1915), and returned to civil service in 1918. * The eleventh was an armed merch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Cayman
Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and the location of the territory's capital, George Town. In relation to the other two Cayman Islands, it is approximately 75 miles (121 km) southwest of Little Cayman and 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Cayman Brac. Geography Grand Cayman encompasses 76% of the territory's entire land mass. The island is approximately long with its widest point being wide. The elevation ranges from sea level at the beaches to above sea level on the North Side's Mastic Trail. Unlike many other Caribbean islands, Grand Cayman is for the most part, flat. This allows for more space to build as the island’s population grows. Island districts Grand Cayman Island includes five of the six districts of the Cayman Islands: Bodden Town, East End, George Town, North Side and West Bay. *Bodden Town – Founded in the 1700s, Bodden Town district comprises the central part of Grand Cayman Island, between the George Town and Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
