Pirate Shipwrecks of Port Royal
Author(s): Chad M. Gulseth
Year: 2013
Summary
History’s most successful pirate, Captain Bartholomew Roberts, was killed by the British Royal Navy in 1722. The three vessels Roberts commanded were taken as prizes and sailed to Port Royal, Jamaica to be sold. However, after being in port for only two weeks, a hurricane struck Jamaica and destroyed more than 50 vessels in the harbor. Roberts’ 40-gun flagship, Royal Fortune, and the 24-gun consort, Little Ranger, were lost. The third pirate vessel, Great Ranger, was heavily damaged and sank after a lack of repair.
This past summer, four graduate students from the Texas A & M University Nautical Archaeology Program traveled to Port Royal, Jamaica to record the remains of the Great Ranger, and locate the wreckage of the Royal Fortune and Little Ranger.
Cite this Record
Pirate Shipwrecks of Port Royal. Chad M. Gulseth. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428632)
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Keywords
General
Pirate
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Port Royal
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Shipwreck
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1722
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 361