1722 in piracy

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Events

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]

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
• February 10 - Bartholomew Roberts, who reportedly robbed 470 vessels in his career, killed in action off Cape López. ^[7]

104 of Roberts' pirates are executed or killed by the Vice Admiralty Court: ^[8]

• 52 crew members, including Christopher Moody, Israel Hynde (maybe 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). ^[8]

References

1. 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. 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. 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. Lane, Kris (2019). Piracy in the Early Modern Era : An Anthology of Sources. Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated. pp. xiii. ISBN   9781624668241.
8. Breverton, Terry (September 1, 2010). Breverton's Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea (1st ed.). Lyons Press. pp. 268, 269. ISBN   978-1599219790.