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Whydah Gally was commissioned in 1715 in London, England, by Sir Humphrey Morice, a member of parliament (MP), who was known as 'the foremost London slave merchant of his day'. [3] A square-rigged three-masted galley ship, she measured 110 feet (34 m) in length, with a tonnage rating at 300 tuns burthen , and could travel at speeds up to 13 ...
Samuel Bellamy, Wreck of the Whydah, from the Pirates of the Spanish Main series (N19) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes MET DP835027 The location of the wrecked Whydah Gally in Cape Cod Just two months after acquiring the Whydah , as she and the Marianne approached Cape Cod, Williams told Bellamy that he wished to visit his family in Rhode Island ...
Whydah may refer in English to: Whydah, one of a number of species of birds in the family Viduidae, also called indigobirds; Whydah Gally, a ship captained by pirate "Black Sam" Bellamy that was wrecked in 1717 and was discovered in 1984; Whydah (1797 ship) The Whydah, 2017 nonfiction children's book; Ouidah, city and colonial fort in present Benin
Adventure Galley, also known as Adventure, was an English merchant ship captained by Scottish sea captain William Kidd.She was a type of hybrid ship that combined square rigged sails with oars to give her manoeuvrability in both windy and calm conditions.
The Kingdom of Whydah (/ ˈ hw ɪ d ə, ˈ hw ɪ d ˌ ɔː /) [nb 1] was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in what is now Benin. [1] It was a major slave trading area which exported more than one million Africans to the United States , the Caribbean and Brazil before closing its trade in the 1860s. [ 2 ]
Craig Anthony Tracy (born May 22, 1967) is an American bodypainting artist and television personality based in New Orleans, Louisiana. [1] He is widely known as the expert judge and the producer of Skin Wars, a bodypainting reality competition which aired on the Game Show Network between 2014 and 2016. [2]
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