Sometime after this, standing to the northward, in the track the Old England ships take in their voyage to the American colonies, they took several ships and vessels, which they plundered of what they thought fit, and let them pass.
Christopher's and Anguilla, they fell in with a brigantine and a sloop, freighted with such cargo as they wanted from whom they got provisions for sea-store. With these two sloops Vane went to a small island and cleaned where they shared their booty, and spent some time in a riotous manner.Ībout the latter end of May, 1718, they sailed, and, being in want of provisions, they beat up for the Windward Islands in the way they met with a Spanish sloop, bound from Porto Rico to the Havanna, which they burnt, stowed the Spaniards into a boat, and left them to get to the island by the blaze of their vessel. In a day or two they fell in with a small interloping trader, with a quantity of Spanish pieces of eight aboard, bound for Providence, which they also took along with them. Two days after, they met with a sloop belonging to Barbados, which they took, and kept the vessel for their own use, putting aboard five and twenty hands, with one Yeats as commander. The Newgate Calendar - CAPTAIN CHARLES VANE.ĬHARLES VANE was one of those who stole away the silver which the Spaniards had fished up from the wrecks of the galleons, in the Gulf of Florida, and was at Providence when Governor Rogers arrived there with two men-of-war, as the reader has been informed.Īll the pirates who were then found at this colony of rogues, submitted, and received certificates of their pardon, except Captain Vane and his crew who, as soon as they saw the men-of-war enter, slipped their cable, set fire to a prize they had in the harbour, sailed out with their piratical colours flying, and fired at one of the men-of-war, as they went off from the coast.
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