Admiralty Report
On May 29, 1720, Captain Samuel Cary of the merchant ship Samuel left the port of London bound for Boston with a cargo of ironware, forty-five barrels of gunpowder, and an assortment of English goods in bales and trunks. She had a crew of ten men to work the ship, and carried several passengers. All would have been fine had she not fallen under the guns of Black Bart the scourge of the seas.

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(1. Pirate Captain’s name)Bartholomew Roberts Plunders the
(2. English vessel’s name)Samuel
On July 13 the (2. English vessel’s name)Samuel was forty miles east of the banks of Newfoundland when two ships hove in sight.
(3. English captain’s name)Captain Cary watched their approach with increased concern, and his worst fears were confirmed when the two ships fired their guns and hoisted pirate flags. The larger vessel was a three-masted ship of about 220 tons and was armed with twenty-six guns. From her main topmast head she flew a black flag on which a skull and cutlass were clearly visible. The flag of the dreaded pirate (1. Pirate Captain’s name)Bartholomew Roberts. The smaller vessel was an 80-ton sloop of ten guns flying a Union flag emblazoned with four blazing balls. (3. English captain’s name)Captain Cary reconed that there were about one hundred men on board each of the vessels, which meant that he and his crew were outnumbered by twenty to one. The (2. English vessel’s name)Samuel had only six guns mounted on carriages, so she was completely out-gunned as well.
The pirates hailed the (2. English vessel’s name)Samuel and ordered her captain to hoist out his boat and come on board the pirate ship. (3. English captain’s name)Captain Cary did as he was told and learned that the pirates were commanded by the formidable (4. Pirate’s nationality)Welshman (1. Pirate Captain’s name)Bartholomew Roberts. For the past month (1. Pirate Captain’s name)Roberts had been cruising in the
(5. Pirate vessel’s name)Adventure Galley off the coast of North America, leaving behind a trail of destruction. In one harbor alone he plundered and burned no less then seventeen vessels.
The pirates swarmed aboard the (2. English vessel’s name)Samuel and began taking the ship apart. They tore open the hatches and attacked the cargo like madmen, cutting open bales, trunks and boxes with their boarding axes and cutlasses. Some of the goods they carried off to their ship, but much of the cargo they hacked to pieces and threw overboard. They took two of the mounted guns and all of the spare rigging and stores, but they threw the anchor and cables over the side. They carried off forty barrels of gunpowder and commandeered the ship’s boat. All this was done with “incessant cursing and swearing, more like fiends than men.” (3. English captain’s name)Captain Cary was told that the pirates had no intention of accepting the King’s Pardon, and if they ever should be overpowered, they would set fire to the gunpowder with a pistol, “and go all merrily to hell together.”
When they had finished looting the (2. English vessel’s name)Samuel, the pirates turned their attention to the crew. All except one (6. Nationality of crewman)Irishman and the captain were forced at pistol point to leave the ship and join the pirates. The pirates were debating whether to sink or burn the merchant ship when they spotted another sail on the horizon and abandoned the (2. English vessel’s name)Samuel in order to give chase. (3. English captain’s name)Captain Carey was left with the one (6. Nationality of crewman)Irishman and three passengers. With their assistance he sailed to (7. Destination city’s name)Boston.
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