An increase in
frigates and other warships allows the
Royal Navy to strike against Royalist privateers in Ireland and Dunkirk as well as Barbary corsairs in North Africa.[3]
A journal written by Dutch admiral
Wybrant Schram is published describing his battle against the pirate fleet led by Captain
Claes G. Compaen in 1626, one of his last engagements during his later career as a pirate hunter.[4]
1650
March 26 – the
Parliament of England passes an act for the redemption of captives taken by Turkish, Moorish and other pirates.
April 1 – After being sighted off the
Yorkshire coast by a local fisherman, Royalist privateer Captain Joseph Constant and his 30-man Dutch crew are surprised by an attack party led by Robert Colman and Captain
Thomas Lassells and captured after a brief skirmish.[5]
^Snelders, Stephen. The Devil's Anarchy. New York: Autonomedia, 2005. (pg. 84)
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^Konstam, Angus. Pirates: Predators of the Seas. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2007. (pg. 105)
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^Herman, Arthur. To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Sharped the Modern World. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. (pg. 172)
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^Snelders, Stephen. The Devil's Anarchy. New York: Autonomedia, 2005. (pg. 6)
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^Leyland, John. The Yorkshire Coast and the Cleveland Hills and Dales. London: Seeley & Company, 1892. (pg. 212-213)
^Bennett, Martyn. The Civil Wars Experienced: Britain and Ireland, 1638–1661. London: Routledge, 2000. (pg. 155)
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