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2. USS Moccasin (ID-1322) - Wikipedia

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   As Prinz Joachim, the ship took relief to Jamaica after the 1907 Kingston earthquake, and she contributed to relief after the 1910 Costa Rica earthquakes. She survived running aground off Jamaica in 1910 and in the Bahamas in 1911.

3. George Raynor (pirate) - Wikipedia

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   There are several stories regarding the origin of Raynor's ship, the Loyal Jamaica or Royal Jamaica (or Bachelor's Delight). [10] [11]According to one account, in 1683 near Guinea, privateer John Cook captured a Dutch merchantman which he named Batchelor’s Delight, which itself had been the Portsmouth when captured by Dutch privateers from its English owners. [10]

4. Joseph Bannister - Wikipedia

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   In June 1684, Bannister ran away with the ship and its thirty to forty guns, picked up over a hundred men to serve as his crew, and began his career as a pirate. [2] Bannister soon picked up additional crew and robbed a small Spanish vessel, but governor Thomas Lynch of Jamaica ordered HMS Ruby to give Bannister chase.

5. Piracy in the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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   With new, innovative ship designs like the fluyt (a cargo vessel able to be operated with a small crew and enter relatively inaccessible ports) rolling out of the ship yards in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, new capitalist economic arrangements like the joint-stock company taking root and the military reprieve provided by the Twelve Year Truce with ...

6. County-class patrol vessel - Wikipedia

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   The County class is a class of offshore patrol vessels built for the Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard (JDF). Based on the Dutch Damen Stan 4207 patrol vessel, the first vessel entered service in 2005. [1] [2] [3] Three were originally purchased, but only one remains in service with the JDF.

7. 1717 in piracy - Wikipedia

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   Late February – Black Sam 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. [1] April 4 – At Bluefield's Bay in Jamaica, Hornigold and Napping capture the sloop Revenge carrying a load of ...