(See also: The Real Pirates of the Caribbean.) To their great regret, they later discovered it had actually been unrefined silver-a fortune that would have been “the richest Booty we had gotten in the whole Voyage,” one crew member wrote. The pirates also abandoned 700 slabs of a dull gray metal they believed to be tin. They transferred this prize to the Trinity before cutting down the Rosario’s mast and setting her adrift with her crew of 40 still onboard. Onboard, they found hundreds of jars of wine and brandy, some fruit, and a small amount of money. The pirates gave chase, killed the Spanish captain in a volley of gunfire, and took the ship, the Rosario. Early on the morning of July 29, 1681, one of Sharpe’s men spotted the sails of a Spanish ship.
The daring theft occurred off the coast of Ecuador.
One of the most valuable treasures they seized was not gold or silver, but an atlas of Spanish sailing charts
0 kommentar(er)
