from: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/whydah/print_pirates.html The Whydah sank off New England in April 1717. Her captain, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and 143 others died with her. Armed with Whydah clues and informed imaginations, historians have begun speculating about Bellamy's crew. Explore the real life of real pirates. = Capt. Samuel BellamyRogue Romeo = * Pirate captain of the Whydah. * English (probably from Devonshire). * Born in 1689. Mother died soon after. * Became a sailor in his teens. Probably saw combat. * Turned pirate at 26 or 27. Elected commander of a pirate fleet in 1716. * Captured more than 50 ships before age 29. "Black Sam" Bellamy went down with the ship in 1717. Sam Bellamy was in love. The object of his affection, according to Cape Cod lore, was Maria Hallett of Eastham, Massachusetts. Her parents liked Sam well enough but didn't think a poor sailor would make much of a husband. So in 1715 Bellamy went looking for his fortune. He and his friend Palgrave Williams started out as ordinary treasure hunters, looking for shipwrecks. They found none. Rather than return empty-handed, the legend says, the determined lover became a pirate-"Black Sam" Bellamy. It was the perfect job for him. In just a year of raiding Bellamy and his crew plundered more than 50 ships on the Caribbean and Atlantic. They were getting rich-quick. And they were rebelling against a world that had sentenced them to grinding poverty. Bellamy's crew called themselves "Robin Hood's Men" and lived by a remarkably democratic set of rules. Then came the coup of a lifetime. In February 1717 Bellamy captured the Whydah, a three-masted English slave ship. With her came gold and silver worth more than 20,000 pounds sterling-money earned from the sale of human beings. For men who might have earned two pounds a month as honest sailors, it was a fortune beyond belief. "Lads, we've gotten enough," Bellamy is said to have told his men. "It's time to go home." The pirate fleet headed to New England-and Maria. But triumph turned to tragedy on April 26, 1717. A fierce storm sank the ship, killing Bellamy and all but 2 of his 145 men.
The most famous pirate city in human history would be the wicked pirate city in the Jamaican city of Port Royal, denoted in the seventeenth century a home for many good for nothing villains of the high sea.
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Martin Frobisher was an English sea dog (a polite term for pirate)
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"Black Sam" Bellamy
The 3-masted Pirate Galley Whydah was commanded by Captain Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy. The Whydah was sunk during a storm off Cape Cod on April 26, 1717, taking Bellamy and the majority of his crew with it.Source Credit: Wiki (see links below)
Samule Bellamy or better known as Black Sam Bellamy was an Irish pirate. He was once an honest man who fell in love with a Woman called Maira, but he had no money to marry so he became a pirate, he convinced the crew to mutany the captain and took his place. He sailed the seas collecting treasure, but on his way back to Maira his ship was caught in a great storm and all but two crew members were lost at sea.
because his buddy samuel bellamy wanted to be a pirate so he went too
It was "Black Sam" Bellamy who skippered the ship.
Albert Bellamy died in 1931.
Tony Bellamy died in 2009.
Jacobus Bellamy died in 1786.
Joseph Bellamy died in 1790.
Hugh Bellamy died in 1972.
Peter Bellamy died in 1991.