100 Dollars Sailing Ships

The Royal James, formerly known as Revenge, was a sloop captained by the pirate Stede Bonnet from 1717 to 1718 during the Golden Age of Piracy. Bonnet contracted a local shipyard to build him the sixty-ton and ten-gun sloop, and he relied heavily on his quartermaster and officer to run the ship, has he had no knowledge of the pirate's lifestyle. Bonnet's first cruise took him to the Chesapeake Bay off Virginia, where he plundered four ships and burned the Barbadian ship Turbet to prevent the ship from telling the people on his island about his activities.

In 1717, Bonnet attacked a brigantine from Boston and a Barbadian sloop off North Carolina, and he used the Barbadian sloop to repair his own ship. In September 1717, as a result of a fight with a Spanish Navy man o' war while en route to Nassau, Revenge was heavily damaged, Bonnet was seriously wounded, and he lost half of his crew. At Nassau, he repaired his ship and increased its armament to twelve guns. The wounded Bonnet gave the famed pirate Blackbeard control of his ship, and he remained a guest on the ship until he recovered

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