John Rackham (hanged 18 November 1720), commonly known as Calico Jack, was an English pirate captain operating in the Bahamas and in Cuba during the early...

The capture of John "Calico Jack" Rackham was a single-ship action fought between English pirate Calico Jack and British privateer Jonathan Barnet. The...

Jennings mentored other well-known pirates such as Charles Vane and "Calico Jack" Rackham. Jennings was also known for a botched attack on a French merchant...

served under John "Calico Jack" Rackham. Amongst the few recorded female pirates in history, she has become one of the most recognized pirates of the Golden...

He is best known for his involvement with Benjamin Hornigold and "Calico Jack" Rackham. Hornigold, working in concert with Captain Napin, had taken the...

privateer, but joined the crew in mutiny. In 1720 she joined pirate John "Calico Jack" Rackham and his companion, Anne Bonny, who both believed her to be a man...

Blackbeard Calico Jack Rackham Charles Vane Edward England Edward Lowe Francis Spriggs George Lowther Henry Every Howell Davis Israel Hands James Martel John Evans...

Vane and his men (including Edward England and Calico Jack Rackham) turned pirate again, capturing a Jamaican sloop. Vane sailed back to Nassau and...

the Caribbean, best known for capturing pirates Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read. The Assembly of the Colony of Jamaica gave him a financial reward...

the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2014-04-03. "Biography of John 'Calico Jack' Rackham, Famed Pirate". Archived from the original on 2017-02-09. Retrieved...

inhabitants of Barbados and Martinique. August - Calico Jack Rackham steals John Ham's sloop William from the harbor of Nassau, Bahamas and leads a crew of pirates...

mate (and former Royal Navy sailor) Robert Deal and quartermaster Calico Jack Rackham aboard. He tried to convince Blackbeard to join him in retaking Nassau...

This is a timeline of the history of piracy. Piracy in ancient history Piracy in post-classical history 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s...

Red Rackham's Treasure (French: Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge) is the twelfth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist...

operations by the United States Navy warship USS Michigan led to the capture of many rebels and successfully put an end to the revolt. Timber pirates...

1776–1824 Jean Lafitte 1776–1854, French Louisiana hero in the Gulf of Mexico John Ordronaux (privateer), United States, 1778–1841 Ephraim Sturdivant,...

Hawkins, son of the character of the same name in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island, as he and Nat, daughter of Long John Silver, also...

Jacques, author of the popular children's series Redwall, and the sequel to Castaways of the Flying Dutchman. It follows the adventures of an immortal boy...

false colors with a fleet of five ships, Pardal's 200-man force landed on the beach, burned homes and turtle sloops and captured the Jamaican ship Hopewell...

pay" (or "no prey, no pay") was a phrase used by pirates and privateers, of the 17th century in particular, to describe the conditions under which participants...

Bellamy and Stede Bonnet. Jennings was mentor to Charles Vane, "Calico" Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read. Despite their rivalries, the pirates...

Caribbean. He was also a privateer in service of the Spanish. Spanish guarda costa privateers had captured the sloop Revenge from the English, and in early...

pirates. At the head of the fleet sailed two Spanish warships, previously captured by van Hoorn, designed to confuse the townsfolk into thinking the fleet...

of Red Rackham from The Adventures of Tintin was based on John “Calico Jack” Rackham and Montbars the Exterminator. Latham, Edward. A Dictionary of Names...

The MV York is a tanker for transport of liquefied gas that after its 2010 capture by Somali pirates had become a mothership for pirate operations. The...

rebuild. In 1703 Williams and Collins were captured by fellow ex-pirate Aert Van Tuyl after they and the crew of Thomas Howard’s ship Prosperous got into...

Madagascar in 1699. Other potential pirate matelotage unions such as that of John Swann and Robert Culliford, who were pirates in the Indian Ocean during...

20 pirates. The San Francisco was grounded and the other two ships were captured. De Graaf re-floated the San Francisco as his new flagship and renamed...

encounter off the coast of Cuba caused by a near collision with a two-ship Honduran treasure fleet allowed Hendrick's fleet to capture a ship and contents...

was instead knighted and made governor of Jamaica. He died a natural death in 1688. John "Calico Jack" Rackham, famous for his partnership with female...