THE
NEWGATE CALENDAR
Pirates
and Nautical criminals
CAPTAIN JOHN
KIDD
Known as the "Wizard of the Seas," who suffered for Piracy, at
Execution Dock, 23rd of May, 1701
CAPTAIN JOHN
MASSEY
Executed at Execution-Dock, July 26, 1723, for Piracy. (A Very Hard
Case.)
PHILIP ROCHE
Executed on 5th of August, 1723, for many Murders on the High Seas and
Piracy
WALTER
KENNEDY
A Pirate, Executed at Execution Dock, the 21st of July, 1721
CAPTAIN JAEN
A Sea-captain who beat his cabin boy to death. Executed 13th May, 1726.
JOHN UPTON
A Pirate; Executed 16th May, 1729.
JOHN GOW, alias SMITH
A most notorious Pirate and Murderer. Executed 11th June 1725.
JOHN GOW
Captain of a notorious Gang of Pirates. Executed at Execution Dock, 11th of
August, 1729 for Piracy
JOHN
RICHARDSON AND RICHARD COYLE
Pirates, hanged at Execution Dock, 25th January, 1738
SAMUEL COUCHMAN AND JOHN MORGAN, LIEUTENANTS OF MARINES, THOMAS
KNIGHT, CARPENTER, AND OTHERS
Part of the Crew of His Majesty's Ship Chesterfield, shot at Portsmouth,
for mutiny, July 14, 1749.
JOHN CARR
The Victim of Swindlers himself, he became a Pirate and Smuggler, and was
executed at Tyburn, 16th of November, 1750, for
Forgery
MOSES MORAVIA
AND JOHN MANOURY
Convicted at the Old Bailey, 27th of June, 1752, for sinking a Ship and
swindling Insurers
CAPTAIN JOHN LANCEY
Executed at Execution Dock, 7th of June, 1754, for burning a Ship at the
Instigation of a Member of Parliament
ROBERT ALSOP,
A MIDSHIPMAN, AND SIX SEAMEN
Convicted in 1755 for committing a Riot in the City of London, and impressing
a Citizen thereof, but treated leniently in order that they might fight against
France
ADMIRAL BYNG
Shot to death on board the Monarque, at Spithead,
for Misbehaviour before the French Fleet in the Mediterranean
JOSEPH HALSEY
Ship's mate, hanged for beating two of his men to death
CAPTAIN JAMES
LOWRY
Executed at Execution Dock, March 25, 1762, for murdering one of his Crew
PETER M'KINLIE, GEORGE GIDLEY, ANDREW ZEKERMAN,
AND RICHARD ST. QUINTIN
Executed for Piracy and Murder, December 19th, 1765
RICHARD PARKER
The Chief of the Mutineers in the British Fleet. Executed at the Yardarm of L'Espion Man-of-War in 1796, at Sheerness
JOHN POWER, Alias
WINN
Pirate, hanged at Execution Dock, 10th March, 1768
WILLIAM CODLIN
Executed 27th of November, 1802, for scuttling a Ship, of which he was
Captain
CAPTAIN JOHN
SUTHERLAND
Commander of the British Armed Transport, The Friends. Executed at
Execution Dock, on the Banks of the Thames, 29th of June, 1809, for the Murder
of his Cabin-Boy.
LIEUTENANT GAMAGE
Late of the Griffon Sloop-of-War, hanged at the Yardarm of that Ship, in
November, 1812, for the Murder of a Sergeant of Marines
THE MARQUIS OF
SLIGO
Convicted of enticing British Seamen to desert, fined Five Thousand Pounds,
and imprisoned Four Months in Newgate, 16th of December, 1812
JOACHIM, a
Portuguese; MARTIN, a black; MILLINGTON, an Irishman; and WILLIAMS, an
Englishman
Tried and executed for mutiny and murder of their officers, while making an
English port, in a French prize brig, December, 1812
WILLIAM JEMMET,
Executed for Robbery on the High Seas.
CHARLES
FREDERICK PALM AND SAMUEL TILLING
Executed for Mutiny and Murder
WILLIAM
SWALLOW, alias WALDON; GEORGE JAMES DAVIS, alias
GEORGE HUNTLEY; WILLIAM WATTS, alias CHARLES WILLIAMS; ALEXANDER STEPHENSON,
alias TELFORD; and JOHN BEVERIDGE, alias ANDERSON.
Tried for Mutiny and Piracy.
WILLIAM
KENNEDY and WILLIAM BROWN
Tried for a Murder Committed on the River Thames.
JACOB
FREDERICK EHLERT,
A Norwegian Sailor, Executed For Murdering his Captain.
PATRICK
MAXWELL STEWART WALLACE; and MICHAEL SHAW STEWART WALLACE
Transported for Inciting a Person to Cast Away and Destroy a Merchant Ship.
JOHN SMITH AND
ROBERT MAYNE
Executed for a Mutiny on Board the King George, 10th May, 1762
GEORGE COLLEY,
MICHAEL BLANCHE, AND FRANCIS COLE
Murderers and Pirates, Executed at Execution Dock, January 22, 1796
MICHAEL COX,
ROBERT M'LAURIN, JOHN SULLIVAN, MARTIN EALEY, AND
WILLIAM MORRISON
The Mutineers of the Grand Fleet, Executed at the Yard-arm of the Defiance
Man of War, March 8, 1796
SIR HENRY
MORGAN.
Pirate who became Governor of Jamaica (1688)
MAJOR STEDE BONNET.
Wealthy Landowner turned Pirate, Hanged
10th December 1718
CAPTAIN AVERY
Pirate who died penniless, having been
robbed of his booty by merchants
CAPTAIN
MARTEL
Pirate
CAPTAIN TEACH
alias BLACK BEARD, the Most Famous Pirate
of all.
CAPTAIN
EDWARD ENGLAND
Pirate
CAPTAIN
CHARLES VANE.
Pirate
CAPTAIN JOHN RACKAM.
Pirate
MARY READ.
Who Passed as a Man, and became a
Soldier, Sailor, and Pirate.
ANNE BONNEY
The Famous Woman Pirate
CAPTAIN DAVIS
Pirate
CAPTAIN
ROBERTS
Pirate
CAPTAIN
KENNEDY.
Pirate
CAPTAIN
WORLEY
Pirate, whose beginning was bold and
desperate, his course short and prosperous, and his end bloody and disgraceful
CAPTAIN SPRIGGS.
Pirate.
CAPTAIN UPTON
Pirate
CAPTAIN
EDWARD LOW
Pirate
