Anti-Piracy

Flotsam, Jetsam, Royalties, and Buccaneers

                                                    9 JULY 1647                 FLOTSAM, JETSAM, ROYALTIES, AND BUCCANEERS The Eleutherian Adventurers included about a hundred English Puritan gentleman and their households who obtained in 1647 a land grant in the Bahamas from Oliver Cromwell’s Parliament.  Each member contributed £100 and signed Read More

Age of Sail, Barbary Wars, War of 1812

USS LYNX

                                               11 JANUARY 1820                                                       USS LYNX In modern times, the unexplained disappearance of a vessel at sea would raise much interest, concern, news coverage, and even sensationalist speculation.  Witness the loss of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 in 2014.  In the 19th century, Read More

Age of Sail, Anti-Piracy, Gunboats

USS WEASEL vs. Gallago Segunda (cont. from 22 JUL)

                                            200th ANNIVERSARY                                                  3 AUGUST 1823                 USS WEASEL vs. GALLAGO SEGUNDA (cont. from 22 JUL) Continental and US Navy warships had been cruising the Caribbean Sea since the earliest days of our Revolutionary War.  Their initial mission was to suppress British Read More

Age of Sail, Anti-Piracy, Land Ops

USS BEAGLE and GREYHOUND (cont. from 11 JUL)

                                                   200th ANNIVERSARY                                                  21-22 JULY 1823                     USS BEAGLE AND GREYHOUND (cont. from 11 JUL) The demise of Diabolito ten days earlier did not bring piracy along the coast of Spanish Cuba to an end.  Far from it.  Piracy remained rampant Read More