A Privateer's Voyage Round the World

A Privateer's Voyage Round the World
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Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9781848320666
ISBN-13 : 1848320663
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Download or read book A Privateer's Voyage Round the World written by George Shelvocke and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1719, Captain George Shelvocke, a poverty-stricken ex-naval officer, appealed for help to an old shipmate, Edward Hughes, who was then part of a consortium fitting-out two privateering vessels to prey on the Spanish in the Pacific. He offered Shelvocke the captaincy of the larger ship but then demoted him to a smaller vessel, and Shelvocke, bitter and revengeful, immediately set off on his own for South America with a semi-mutinous crew, and his much-hated Captain of Marines, William Betagh. After rounding Cape Horn, one of ShelvockeÕs men shot a black albatross Ð an event later to be immortalised in ColeridgeÕs Rime of the Ancient Mariner Ð and then, off Chile, with considerable loot onboard his ship, the Speedwell, was wrecked in the Juan Fernandez Islands. Undaunted, he built another vessel and eventually returned to England, via Macao, loaded with Spanish plunder. Back home he was arrested for piracy and defrauding his shareholders, though he argued that he owed the original owners nothing as their ship had been honestly lost. The events were grippingly portrayed in his memoir A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea, though some of it was disputed by Betagh and others, and it still reads today as a fast moving, incident-packed tale exposing the world of the maritime mercenaries and privateers, men who would take on anything and everything Ð for Gold!


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