1722 in piracy

See also 1721 in piracy, 1723 in piracy and Timeline of piracy.

Events

Atlantic Ocean

Caribbean Sea

  • March - English ship Greyhound Galley seized and robbed by Spaniards.[1]
  • March–April - Matthew Luke, an Italian guarda costa privateer, plunders four British vessels, killing all aboard.[2]
  • May - Luke attacks English war vessel HMS Lanceston, mistaking it for a merchant ship. He and his crew are captured and brought to Jamaica, where all but seven of his crew are hanged.[1]
  • August - Under the command of Thomas Anstis[2], John Fenn's ship, the Morning Star, wrecks on Grand Cayman.[3]

Indian Ocean

West Africa

  • February 5 - Bartholomew Roberts' consort vessel, Ranger, captured by Chaloner Ogle.[4]
  • 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.

Deaths

Bartholomew Roberts' Crew

In total, 118 pirates in Roberts' crew die after being defeated by Chaloner Ogle.[2]

14 crew members are killed on board Roberts' vessels during the battle with Ogle:[6]

  • February 5 - 10 killed on vessel Ranger
  • February 10 - 3 killed on vessel Royal Fortune

104 of Roberts' pirates are executed or killed by the Vice Admiralty Court:[7]

  • 52 crew members, including Christopher Moody, Israel Hynde (or Israel Hands), are executed by hanging on April 3-20 at Cape Coast Castle.[6]
  • 15 crew members die of wounds en route to Cape Coast Castle.
  • 4 crew members die in the castle dungeons while awaiting trial and/or hanging.
  • 13 of 17 members sentenced to Marshalsea Prison die during the passage to London.
  • All 20 members sentenced to 7 years of labor in the Cape Coast mines die before finishing their sentence.
  • 1 of 2 members with respited guilty sentences dies (unknown if by execution or natural causes).[7]

Other

  • February 10 - Bartholomew Roberts, who reportedly robbed 470 vessels in his career, killed in action off Cape López.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Defoe, Daniel (1724). A general history of the pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (2nd ed.). T. Warner. pp. 38–39.
  2. ^ a b c Gosse, Phillip (1924). "The Pirates' Who's Who". www.gutenberg.org. Burt Franklin. ISBN 978-1605970462. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
  3. ^ Wells, David (October 1, 2018). A Brief History of the Cayman Islands. The West India Committee. p. 17.
  4. ^ "Capt Bartholomew Roberts (c.1682 - 1722)". Royal Museums Greenwich. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
  5. ^ Cordingly, David (2006). Under the Black Flag: the romance and the reality of life among the pirates. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks. pp. xix. ISBN 978-0-307-76307-5.
  6. ^ a b Defoe, Daniel (1724). A general history of the pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (2nd ed.). T. Warner. pp. 321–326.
  7. ^ a b Breverton, Terry (September 1, 2010). Breverton's Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea (1st ed.). Lyons Press. pp. 268, 269. ISBN 978-1599219790.
  8. ^ Lane, Kris (2019). Piracy in the Early Modern Era : An Anthology of Sources. Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated. pp. xiii. ISBN 9781624668241.