1703 in piracy

1703 in piracy

"See also" 1702 in piracy, other events in 1703, 1704 in piracy, and Timeline of piracy.

Events

Atlantic Ocean

* Undated - The crew of the Marblehead brigantine "Charles" mutinies, murders their captain, and elects John Quelch leader. Quelch's pirates then ransack Portuguese shipping off Brazil.

see "Quelch's Gold" by Clifford Beal (Praeger Publishing, Westport CT, USA 2007)

Indian Ocean

*March - East Indiaman "Pembroke" plundered by the pirate crews of Captain Howard and Captain Bowen, at Mayotte. Two merchant seamen are killed in the fight, and the "Pembroke"'s Captain Woolley is forced into piracy.
*Spring - Summer - Captain Bowen in the "Speedy Return" captures a 700-ton Muslim ship off Surat, India, looting £22,000 in gold and capturing additional cargo which they sell in Malabar. Simultaneously, Captain Howard in the "Prosperous" takes another Muslim vessel close in to Surat, plundering 84,000 chequins.

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