West Country Pirates

1715 travelled to Cape Cod, on the American Massachusetts coastline.

He became a successful pirate plundering the Spanish treasure fleets

off Florida as they followed the Gulf stream back to Europe

These huge galleons were loaded with Gold doubloons from Mexico

and Silver pieces of eight from the Silver mines of Peru

Both fleets meeting in Havana, Cuba, for the return home.

Following this fleet he could not resist popping into Wellfleet, Mass to see his

girlfriend in his new flagship the Wydah in 1717.

It became caught in a storm raging along the coast and sank with all hands,

It is now being recovered by the salvage experts Mel Fisher Museum Florida,

died: