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The capture of the sloop Ranger was a naval battle which occurred on June 10, 1723 near Block Island in the Atlantic Ocean.Two pirate ships under the command of Englishmen Edward Low and Charles Harris attacked HMS Greyhound, a post ship of the British Royal Navy which they mistook for a civilian whaler.
Pirate ships include ships operated by pirates and used for conducting piracy upon the seas, bays, and rivers. ... Sloop; Snow (ship) Speronara; W. Wanderer (slave ship)
Gaff rigged sloop, 1899. A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast [1] typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. [note 1] Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sails fore and aft, or as a gaff-rig with triangular foresail(s) and a gaff rigged mainsail.
The pirates employed the same tactic as before, surprising the crew while they were distracted with the cargo. [33] Cofresí then mugged Anne ' s captain, Beagle ' s navigator John Low, stealing $20 from him. [30] The ship's crew was forced to leap overboard and were left behind while the pirates commandeered the vessel. [30]
February 26 - Two pirate ships commanded by Bartholomew Roberts and Montigny la Palisse are attacked near Barbados by local ships and driven away with heavy casualties. March - Two sloops sent from Martinique to capture Roberts and his men arrive too late to capture the pirates, who have sailed northward. Roberts adopts a new flag threatening ...
The Dancing Molly was a pirate sloop famous during the Chesapeake Oyster Wars (1865-1959) for humiliating Virginia Governor William E. Cameron as he personally attempted its capture on 28 February 1883.
The fourth USS Warren was a second-class sloop-of-war in the United States Navy.. Warren was built at the Boston Navy Yard between 1825 and 1826 and was commissioned at her builders on 14 January 1827, Master Commandant Lawrence Kearny in command.
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.