| 词条 | William Read (pirate) |
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William Read (died 1701, last name occasionally Reed) was a pirate active in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar. He is best known for rescuing fellow pirate captains John Bowen and Thomas White. HistoryRead was captain of the Alexander, a 60-ton[1] brigantine based out of Madagascar.[2] Around 1701 he stopped near the settlement of a local native King. Thomas White and John Bowen had been aboard a French pirate ship which wrecked nearby and had been in the care of the King for over a year.[2] The King was hospitable but insisted they leave on the first ship to arrive.[3] Read took them aboard and proceeded around the Madagascar coast, picking up stranded European sailors to increase his crew.[3] Bowen was elected sailing master and handled navigation for the Alexander.[4] Now with 40[1] to 60[3] men they sailed to the Persian Gulf and took a 200-ton grab loaded with bale goods. Thinking the bales worthless, the pirates threw them overboard, not realizing the ship’s crew had hidden their gold and valuables inside the bales.[3] Read soon died of illness, replaced by a Captain James, who was himself replaced by Bowen after they had exchanged the Alexander for the captured grab.[3] Thomas White remained aboard until leaving to sail with Nathaniel North.[5] William Read of the Alexander should not be confused with William Read of the Ranger, a pirate who served under Captain Charles Harris until Harris was abandoned by Edward Low and captured by the HMS Greyhound in 1723.[6] See also
References1. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Ellms|first1=Charles|title=The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms|date=1837|publisher=Sanborn and Carter|location=Portland|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12216/12216-h/12216-h.htm|accessdate=12 July 2017}} {{pirates}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Read, William}}2. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Gosse|first1=Philip|title=The Pirates' Who's Who by Philip Gosse|date=1924|publisher=Burt Franklin|location=New York |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19564/19564-h/19564-h.htm|accessdate=23 June 2017}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite book|last1=Grey|first1=Charles|title=Pirates of the eastern seas (1618-1723): a lurid page of history|date=1933|publisher=S. Low, Marston & co., ltd|location=London|url=http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/documents/1D30004CA384A81381DD3C8F45CAE3B216713B01.html|accessdate=26 June 2017}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=The history of the famous pirate John Bowen {{!}} Pirate Shipwrecks - Pirate History and Pirates Treasure|url=http://pirateshipwrecks.com/pirate-john_bowen|website=pirateshipwrecks.com|accessdate=12 July 2017}} 5. ^{{cite web|last1=Romano|first1=Heidi Bosch|title=Pirate History: Famous Pirates, Privateers, Buccaneers, and Corsairs U-Z|url=http://www.privateerdragons.com/pirates_famous9.html#W|website=www.privateerdragons.com|accessdate=12 July 2017|language=en}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Admiralty (Rhode Island)|first1=High Court Of|title=Tryals of thirty-six persons for piracy, twenty-eight of them upon full evidence were found guilty, and the rest acquitted. At a Court of Admiralty for tryal of pirates, held at Newport within His Majesties Colony of Rhode-island and Providence-Plantations in America, on the tenth, eleventh and twelfth days of July, anno Dom. 1723. Pursuant to His Majesties commission, founded on an act of Parliament, made in the eleventh & twelfth years of King William the Third, entituled, An act for the more effectual suppression of piracy. And made perpetual by an act of the sixth of King George.|date=1723|publisher=Samuel Kneeland|location=Boston MA|url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N29929.0001.001/1:2.2?rgn=div2;view=fulltext|accessdate=12 July 2017}} 5 : 18th-century pirates|English pirates|Pirates|1701 deaths|Piracy in the Indian Ocean |
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