Samuel Bellamy

See also: Bellamy

Samuel Bellamy was a Flibustier English more known under the names of Black Sam or Black Bellamy and called Prince of the Pirates .

After a childhood passed in the Devonshire, the legend tells that it left the England for the Nouveau World, in search of fortune. It finds somebody there to finance a forwarding in the search of cast Spanish treasures close to the coasts of the South America. This forwarding is a failure and Bellamy returns the empty handeds.

It Marie and founds a family close to Canterbury, but the call of the sea is strongest: it is made engage aboard ship of Benjamin Hornigold, known for its generosity towards the prisoners and his refusal to attack the English ships. Bellamy takes its place of captain when Hornigold ceases its activities.

Bellamy primarily meets then many successes with the course its career of Pirate in the the Antilles. It is known to justify its troops by great speeches, art in which it is considered itself talented. He always is very worried by the comfort and the wellbeing of his crew and even of his prisoners.

Its career stops abruptly the April 27th 1717, day when it runs with broad of the Cape Cod in Massachusetts on board the Whydah Gally ( Whydah is the name of a African commercial port, close to the Ivory Coast; Gally , or Galley , means galère) - then charged with treasures coming of more than 53 ships - during a storm. Only two men survived: one disappeared in the meanders from the history, the other, Thomas Davis, will declare with her lawsuit that Whydah transported 180 money and gold bags at the time of the shipwreck and will feed the folklore of the Cape Cod with the history of Bellamy and of the terrible storm which caused its loss.

Barry Clifford and a team of plungers found her ship in 1984: it is the only known pirate ship ever found. It brought back from there weapons, coins, jewels and different other objects.

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