The originally Danish ship with 40 guns was seized by pirates under John Cook in 1683 off the coast of Guinea . The pirates sold their own ship in the Sherbro area (south of Freetown ) in exchange for 60 female slaves, switched to the prize and renamed it Batchelor's Delight . Cook died en route to the Pacific, off the coast of Mexico, and Davis became the new leader of the pirates. After cruising off the west coast of South America with little success, the pirate ship finally set course for the East Indies .
literature
Peter Kemp (ed.): The Oxford Companion To Ships And The Sea . Granada Publishing Ltd., London 1979, ISBN 0-586-08308-1 .
Individual evidence
↑ Helen Hollick: Pirates: Truth and Tale. Amberley Publishing, 2017
