1717 in piracy

none February 2020 Events Caribbean Sea January – Scarborough 1711 6 bombards and destroys several pirate vessels careening on St. Croix, stranding the pirate crew. Late February – Samuel Bellamy in the Sultana takes the Whydah Gally near Jamaica and keeps it for his own use. April 1 – Benjamin Hornigold and a pirate named Napping capture a large armed sloop, the Bennet, out of Jamaica.Wombwell James The Long War Against Piracy: historical trends Combat Studies Institute Press, US Army Combined Arms Center 2010 Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 42 April 4 – At Bluefield's Bay in Jamaica, Hornigold and Napping capture the sloop Revenge carrying a load of Spanish gold. 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. December 10 – Blackbeard overtakes and ransacks the merchant sloop Margaret off the coast of Anguilla near Crab Island.Bialuschewski Arne 2012 Blackbeard: The Creation of a Legend Topic: The Washington & Jefferson College Review 58 39–54 EBSCO North America Spring – Edward Teach and Benjamin Hornigold take two sloops to Virginia, robbing three vessels en route, then return to Nassau, Bahamas. April – Bellamy seizes a merchant vessel off South Carolina. April 26 – The Whydah Gally wrecks in a nor'easter off Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Bellamy and 143 men are drowned. Over 4 tons of treasure is lost under just 14 ft of water – it would elude discovery for over 260 years. July – Stede Bonnet's pirates in the Revenge plunder the Anne, Turbet, Endeavour, and Young off the coast of Virginia, burning the Turbet. August – Bonnet raids two vessels off South Carolina, firing one. October – Edward Teach and Stede Bonnet raid shipping in the mouth of Delaware Bay. October 12 – Blackbeard captures a Captain Codd and his vessel off the Delaware capes. He later captures and loots the Spofford and Sea Nymph. October 22 – Blackbeard, on the Revenge, stops and plunders the Robert and Good Intent of their cargo. November 5 – The surviving Whydah Gally pirates are hung in Boston.The End of Piracy: Pirates hanged in Boston 300 years ago https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2017/11/the-end-of-piracy-pirates-hanged-in-boston-300-years-ago/ Europe September 5 – King George I of Great Britain issues a royal decree, known as the Act of Grace, pardoning all pirates who surrender to the appointed authorities by 5 September 1718.5573 14 September 1717 Deaths April 27 – Samuel Bellamy, pirate commander captain (born February 23, 1689, aged 28), along with 143 of his crew.Gosse Philip The Pirates' Who's Who: Giving Particulars of the Lives & Deaths of the Pirates & Buccaneers Burt Franklin 1924 New York 49 See also 1716 in piracy 1717 for other events 1718 in piracy Timeline of piracy References Piracy Category:Piracy by year Category:1717 in military history