| 词条 | Matthew Luke |
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Matthew Luke (died 1722, occasionally named Mateo Luque or Matteo Luca[1]) was a pirate active in the Caribbean. HistoryLuke, originally from Genoa, had been cruising the Caribbean under commission from the Spanish Governor of Puerto Rico as a guarda costa privateer. With his sloop Vengeance (or Venganza) he had earlier captured four English vessels and murdered their crews.[2] In April 1722 he spotted a merchant ship off of Hispaniola and moved alongside to attack it. The ship turned out to be Captain Candler’s 40-gun fifth-rate frigate HMS Launceton (or Lauceston / Lanceston),[3] sent to the Caribbean to replace the scrapped HMS Ludlow Castle.[3] Candler’s men boarded the Vengeance, whose sailors claimed she was a merchant trader. The paper wrap from a powder cartridge was determined to be a page from the journal of a snow named Crean, whose crew had been murdered.[5] In the ship’s hold they found the rest of the 58-man crew in hiding, all of which were arrested and returned to Port Royal.[4] The Launceton's logbooks note, "25 Apr 1722 - Cape Tiberon - captured boat from Puerto Rico with hiding crew."[5] The crewmen were tried and shown to be pirates, one of whom confessed to killing twenty English men with his bare hands.[6] Despite Spanish objections that the vessel had a legitimate privateering commission,[4] over forty of the pirates were hanged.[7] See also
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