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Considered not only history's most successful female pirate, but one of the most successful pirates in history. Qing dynasty: 1775 1844 Siddins, Richard. Captain of Campbell Macquarie and one of the earliest and best known merchant ship captains sailing out of Port Jackson. United Kingdom: Yes Yes 1770 1846 Smalls, Robert
The most famous pirate in the Persian Gulf, he ruled over Qatar and Dammam for short periods and fought alongside the Wahhabis against the Al-Khalifa tribe of Bahrain. [50] Bill Johnston: 1782–1870 1810–1860 United States Nicknamed "Pirate of the Thousand Islands". Edward Jordan: 1771–1809 1794–1809 Canada
D. Ranulph Dacre; Martin Daly (captain) William Dampier; John Daniel (ship's captain) William Davies (master mariner) James Davis (mariner) William Day (sea captain)
Bonnet captained a 10-gun sloop named the Revenge and raided ships off the Virginia coast in 1717. He was caught and hanged in 1718. Henry Every, one of the few major pirate captains to retire with his loot without being arrested nor killed in battle. He is famous for capturing the fabulously wealthy Mogul ship Ganj-i-Sawai in 1695.
Jeremiah O'Brien, captain of the privateer Unity in the first battle of the Revolutionary War; Herbert Pitman, third officer of the Titanic; John Wallace Thomas, Newfoundland captain made Commander of the Order of the British Empire for actions during a Luftwaffe attack; Louis Ernest Sola, Federal Maritime Commissioner and yachtsman [1]
Fluency in multiple languages was a valuable skill for a captain, given that it was not uncommon for armies to consist of a majority of foreign nationals. Industrial. Edwards, John Carver. Airmen Without Portfolio: U.S. Mercenaries in Civil War Spain. Praeger, 1997. Jowett, Philip. Chinese Warlord Armies 1911–30. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
Used this experience playing the Captain of HMS Exeter, in the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate. Alec Guinness, actor, served during World War II, initially as a rating, but later commissioned in 1941. He commanded a landing craft taking part in the invasion of Sicily and Elba and later ferried supplies to the Yugoslav partisans.
Arnauld de la Perière (1886–1941) is the most successful submarine commander in history in terms of both ships and total tonnage sunk. Between 1915 and 1918, he made 14 patrols in command of U-35, sinking 189 merchant vessels and two gunboats. He transferred to U-139 in May 1918 and sank a further five merchant ships.