the pirates: caribbean hunt treasure island

Thomas Historical Trust in Charlotte Amalie, explains how Hamlin came to St. Charles Consolvo, a maritime historian and a board member of the St. In one incident, Hamlin captured a seaman on a shipping vessel and put the man’s thumbs in vices ( thumbscrews) until he confessed what kind of cargo was ab oard his ship.

Hamlin, who helmed the ocean vessel La Trompeuse, captured ships off Hispaniola, the name given to the large Caribbean island where the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic are now located. Thomas is told through historical documents in Isidor Paiewonsky’s 1961 book The Burning of a Pirate Ship, La Trompeuse. Hamlin also raided ships off the coast of Sierra Leone, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in northwestern Africa.

Hamlin was a successful pirate, having raided English and other European ships off the coast of Jamaica and Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea. Yet it’s a lesser-known French pirate, Jean Hamlin, whose presence on St. Captain William Kidd, a Scottish sailor famously executed for piracy, sailed into the harbor in 1699 to drop off five deserters and a sick man. There is no proof the infamous English pirate Blackbeard caroused Charlotte Amalie’s taverns-Blackbeard’s Castle is actually the name of a 10-meter (34-foot) tall Danish watchtower that has no apparent connection to its namesake.

Charlotte Amalie is the capital of the island of St. From the view on top of Blackbeard’s Castle, the red-tiled roofs of the city of Charlotte Amalie ring a blue-green harbor that was once a pirate refuge in the late 1600s.

The pirates: caribbean hunt treasure island