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| x Royal Navy |
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The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Tracing its origins to the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service. From the end of the 17th century until well into the...
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The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies were integrated into a national force: the Commonwealth Naval...
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HMAS Bataan | ||
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| x Tom Perkins |
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Thomas James Perkins (born 1932) is an American businessman, capitalist, and is a Partner Emeritus at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Tom Perkins is one of Silicon Valley's pioneers, with a career spanning...
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The Maltese Falcon | 2006 | |
| x Larry Ellison |
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Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born August 17, 1944 in The Bronx, New York City, New York) is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, one of the world's leading enterprise software companies. As of 2012, he is the third...
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Rising Sun | ||
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| x David Geffen |
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David Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer and philanthropist. Geffen is noted for creating Asylum Records in 1970, Geffen Records in 1980, and DGC Records in 1990. Geffen was also one...
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Rising Sun | ||
| Pelorus | 2011 | ||||
| x Paul Allen |
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Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American investor and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, a leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications. He is also the 48th richest...
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Octopus | 2003 | |
| Tatoosh | 2001 | ||||
| x Eugene Shvidler |
Evgeny Markovich Shvidler (Russian: Евгений Маркович Швидлер, born March 23, 1964), also Eugene Shvidler, is a Russian oil businessman. Although not often referred to as one of the prominent business oligarchs, he still made his fortune in Russia...
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Le Grand Bleu | Jun 2006 | ||
| x Roman Abramovich |
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Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (Russian: Рома́н Арка́дьевич Абрамо́вич, pronounced [rəˈman ərˈkadʲjɪvʲɪtɕ əbrɐˈmovʲɪtɕ]; born 24 October 1966) is a Russian business tycoon and the main owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC.
He is known...
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Le Grand Bleu | 2002 | Jun 2006 |
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| Pelorus | 2004 | 2009 | |||
| x John McCaw, Jr. |
John McCaw, Jr. (c. 1951) is a businessman who formerly owned McCaw Cellular in Seattle, Washington and a former part-owner of the Vancouver Canucks NHL franchise, with Francesco Aquilini. On November 8, 2006, his 50% interest was sold to Aquilini,...
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Le Grand Bleu | 2000 | 2002 | |
| x Les Wexner |
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Leslie "Les" H. Wexner (born September 8, 1937 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American businessman from Columbus, Ohio, and currently chairman and CEO of the Limited Brands corporation.
Wexner was born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Dayton, Ohio. He...
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Limitless | ||
| x Dennis Washington |
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Dennis R. Washington (born 1934) is a Montana-based industrialist and philanthropist who owns, or co-owns controlling interest in, a large consortium of privately held companies collectively known as the Washington Companies and, in Canada, another...
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Attessa | ||
| x Craig McCaw |
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Craig McCaw (born August 11, 1949 in Centralia, Washington) is a Seattle-area businessman and entrepreneur who achieved success as a pioneer in the cellular phone industry. He is the founder of McCaw Cellular (now part of AT&T; Mobility) and...
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Tatoosh | 2000 | 2001 |
| x Peter Lewis |
Peter B. Lewis (born November 11, 1933) is the Cleveland, Ohio-area based chairman of Progressive Insurance Companies. Lewis currently resides in Coconut Grove, Florida.
Lewis attended Cleveland Heights High School and then graduated from Princeton...
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Lone Ranger | |||
| x John Paul Getty III |
Jean Paul Getty III (4 November 1956 — 5 February 2011), also known as Paul Getty, was the eldest of the four children of John Paul Getty, Jr. and Abigail (née Harris), and the grandson of oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty. His son is actor Balthazar Getty...
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Talitha | |||
| x Bill Miller |
Bill Miller is Chairman and former Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital Management, a subsidiary of Legg Mason, Inc. He is formerly the portfolio manager of the Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust (Mutual fund: LMVTX) and is...
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Utopia | |||
| x Vela International Marine |
Vela International Marine Limited (Arabic: فيلا) is a Saudi Aramco-owned company headquartered on the 7th floor of City Tower 2 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Vela, established in 1984, currently owns 29 oil tankers most of which are Very Large...
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| x J J Craig | James Craig | 1900 | |||
| x Sydney Heritage Fleet | James Craig | ||||
| x Canadian Forces |
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The Canadian Forces (CF) (French: les Forces canadiennes; FC), officially the Canadian Armed Forces (French: Forces armées canadiennes), are the unified armed forces of Canada, as constituted by the National Defence Act, which states: "The Canadian...
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HMCS Oriole | ||
| x Canadian Coast Guard |
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The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) (French: Garde côtière canadienne - GCC) is the coast guard of Canada.
The Canadian Coast Guard is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario and is a Special Operating Agency within the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
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CCGS Amundsen | 1979 | 2000 |
| x General Petroleum Corporation | SS Emidio | Dec 20, 1941 | |||
| x Christopher Hatton |
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Sir Christopher Hatton (1540 – 20 November 1591) was an English politician, Lord Chancellor of England and a favourite of Elizabeth I of England.
His father was William Hatton (d. 1546) of Holdenby, Northamptonshire and his mother was Alice Saunders...
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Golden Hind | 1577 | |
| x Sulpicio Lines |
Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation (known formerly as Sulpicio Lines, Inc.) is a shipping line in the Philippines. It is notable in the Philippines and around the world for owning and operating the vessel MV Doña Paz, which figured in the...
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MV Princess of the Stars | |||
| x effdo 3 oy | M/S Estonia | 1992 | 1993 | ||
| x Estline |
Estline (sometimes spelled EstLine) was a Swedish-Estonian shipping company, owned jointly by Nordström & Thulin and the Estonian Government via Estonian Shipping Company (ESCO). Estline was founded in 1990 and had a 10 year exclusive right to the...
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M/S Estonia | 1993 | 1994 | |
| x Rederi Ab Sally |
Rederi Ab Sally was a Finnish shipping company founded in the 1937 by Algot Johansson. Originally a tanker operator, Sally became a dominant member of the Viking Line shipping consortium in the 1970s. The company met bad times in the 1980s and was...
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M/S Estonia | 1980 | 1988 | |
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Finland Steamship Company (Swedish: Finska Ångfartygs Aktiebolag, abbreviated FÅA, Finnish: Suomen Höyrylaiva Osakeyhtiö, abbreviated SHO) was a Finnish shipping company founded in 1883 by Captain Lars Krogius. In Finnish and Swedish The company was...
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M/S Estonia | 1988 | 1992 |
| x P&O British India | SS Uganda | ||||
| SS Medina | Apr 28, 1918 | ||||
| x United States Navy |
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The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest navy in the world, with a battle fleet tonnage that is greater than...
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USS Constitution | 1797 | |
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| x Military Sealift Command |
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The Military Sealift Command (MSC) is a United States Navy organization that controls most of the replenishment and military transport ships of the Navy. It first came into existence on 9 July 1949 when the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS)...
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USNS Impeccable | ||
| x Eric of Pomerania |
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Eric of Pomerania KG (1381 or 1382 – 3 May 1459) was King Eric (Eirik) III of Norway (1389–1442), King Eric VII of Denmark (1396–1439), and King Eric (Ericus) of Sweden (1396–1439; known there in history mainly as Erik av Pommern). He was the first...
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| x Benjamin Hornigold |
Captain Benjamin Hornigold (died 1719) was an 18th-century English pirate. His career lasted from 1715 to 1718, after which he turned pirate hunter and pursued his former allies on behalf of the Governor of the Bahamas. He was killed when his ship...
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| x Lancelot Blackburne |
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Lancelot Blackburne (sometimes Blackburn or Blackborne or Blackbourn[e]), (10 December 1658 – 23 March 1743) was an English clergyman, who became Archbishop of York, and – in popular belief – a pirate.
He was described by Horace Walpole, in his...
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| x Jørgen Jørgensen |
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Jørgen Jørgensen (surname changed to Jorgenson from 1817) (29 March 1780 – 20 January 1841) was a Danish adventurer during the Age of Revolution. During the Action of 2 March 1808 his ship was captured by the British. In 1809 he sailed to Iceland,...
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| x John Ward |
John Ward or Birdy (c. 1553 – 1622), also known as Jack Ward and under his Muslim name Yusuf Reis, was a notorious English pirate around the turn of the 17th century who later became a Barbary Corsair operating out of Tunis during the early 17th...
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| x Paul Watson |
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Paul Watson (born December 2, 1950) is a Canadian animal rights and environmental activist, who founded and is president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a direct action group devoted to marine conservation.
The Toronto native joined a...
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| x Blackbeard |
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Edward Teach (c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies. Although little is known about his early life, he was probably...
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Queen Anne's Revenge | 1717 | 1718 |
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| x Jean Ango |
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Jean Ango (or Jehan Angot) (1480–1551) was a French ship-owner who provided ships to Francis I for exploration of the globe. A native of Dieppe, Ango took over his father's import-export business, and ventured into the spice trade with Africa and...
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| x Aruj |
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Aruj or Arouj (Turkish: Oruç Reis, Arabic: عروج بربروس, Spanish: Arrudye; c. 1474 – 1518) was the elder brother of Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha and Ottoman Bey (Governor) of Algiers and Beylerbey (Chief Governor) of the West Mediterranean. He was born...
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| x Olivier van Noort |
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Olivier van Noort (1558 – 22 February 1627) was the first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world.
Olivier van Noort was born in 1558 in Utrecht. He left Rotterdam on 2 July 1598 with four ships and a plan to attack Spanish possessions in the Pacific...
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| x Zheng Zhilong |
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Zheng Zhilong (Chinese: 鄭芝龍; pinyin: Zhèng Zhīlóng; Wade–Giles: Cheng Chih-lung; 1604 – 1661) also known as Nicholas Iquan Gaspard, a native of Nan'an, Fujian, China. He was a Chinese merchant, pirate and admiral for the Ming Empire. He was the...
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| x Magister Wigbold |
Magister Wigbold (1365–1402), also called “Master of the Seven Arts”, was a German pirate who belonged to the famous Likedeeler pirates of Klaus Störtebeker. Wighold was one of the most noted Likedeeler, along with Gödeke Michels and Störtebeker....
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| x Calico Jack |
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Jack Rackham (21 December 1682 – 18 November 1720), commonly known as Calico Jack, was an English pirate captain operating in the Bahamas during the early 18th century (Rackham is often spelled as Rackam or Rackum in historical documentation). His...
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William | ||
| x Thomas Cavendish |
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Sir Thomas Cavendish (September 19, 1560 – May 1592) was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific...
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Desire | ||
| x William Dampier |
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William Dampier (5 September 1651 - 8 March 1715) was the first Englishman to explore parts of New Holland (Australia) and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. Dampier has been described as the first natural historian of...
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| x Richard Hawkins |
Admiral Sir Richard Hawkins (or Hawkyns) (c. 1562 – April 17, 1622) was a 17th-century English seaman, explorer and Elizabethan "Sea Dog", and the son of Admiral Sir John Hawkins.
He was from his earlier days familiar with ships and the sea, and in...
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| x Francis Drake |
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Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (1540 – 27 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the...
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Golden Hind | ||
| x James Lancaster |
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Sir James Lancaster (died 6 June 1618) was a prominent Elizabethan trader and privateer.
Lancaster came from Basingstoke in Hampshire. In his early life, he was a soldier and a trader in Portugal. On 10 April 1591 he started from Torbay in Devon,...
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| x Woodes Rogers |
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Woodes Rogers (ca. 1679 – 15 July 1732) was an English sea captain, privateer, and, later, the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas. He is known as the captain of the vessel that rescued the marooned Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally...
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Duke | ||
| x Alexandre Exquemelin |
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Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin) (c. 1645-1707) was a French writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th century piracy, first published in Dutch as De...
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| x Nathaniel Gordon |
Nathaniel Gordon (c. 1834 – February 21, 1862) was the only American slave trader to be tried, convicted, and executed "for being engaged in the Slave Trade" in accordance with the Piracy Law of 1820.
Gordon was born in Portland, Maine. He loaded...
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| x Piet Pieterszoon Hein |
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Pieter Pietersen Heyn (25 November 1577 – 18 June 1629) was a Dutch naval officer and folk hero during the Eighty Years' War between the United Provinces and Spain.
Hein was born in Delfshaven (now part of Rotterdam), the son of a sea captain, and...
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| x Edward England |
Edward England, born Edward Seegar in Ireland, was a famous African coast and Indian Ocean pirate captain from 1717 to 1720. The ships he sailed on included the Pearl (which he renamed The Royal James) and later the Fancy, for which England...
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| x Henry Morgan |
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Admiral Sir Henry Morgan (Harri Morgan in Welsh; ca. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was an Admiral of the Royal Navy, a privateer, and a pirate who made a name for himself during activities in the Caribbean, primarily raiding Spanish settlements. He was one...
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| x Anne Bonny |
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Anne Bonny (8 March 1702 – 22 April 1782) was an Irish woman who became a famous female pirate, operating in the Caribbean. What little is known of her life comes largely from A General History of the Pyrates.
Little is known of Bonny's life,...
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| x Ching Shih |
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Ching Shih (1775–1844) (simplified Chinese: 郑氏; traditional Chinese: 鄭氏; pinyin: Zhèng Shì; Cantonese: Jihng Sih; "widow of Zheng"), also known as Zheng Yi Sao (simplified Chinese: 郑一嫂; traditional Chinese: 鄭一嫂; pinyin: Zhèng Yī Sǎo; Cantonese:...
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| x Christopher Condent |
Christopher Condent (1690s – died 1770), born in Plymouth in Devon, was an English pirate who led the return to the Eastern Seas. He and his crew fled New Providence in 1718, when Woodes Rogers became governor of the island.
On a trip across the...
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| x Jean Bart |
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Jean Bart (21 October 1650 – 27 April 1702) was a Flemish sailor who primarily served the French crown as naval commander and privateer.
Jean Bart was born in Dunkirk in 1650to a seafaring family, the son of a sailor who has been described variously...
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| x Matsuura Takanobu |
Matsuura Takanobu (松浦 隆信, 1529 – April 1, 1599) or Taqua Nombo was a 16th century Japanese samurai and 25th hereditary lord of the Matsuura clan of Hirado. He should not be confused with Matsuura Takanobu (same spelling, same kanji), the 4th daimyo...
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| x Abraham Blauvelt |
Abraham Blauvelt (died 1663?) was a Dutch privateer and explorer mapping much of Central America in the 1630s, after whom both the Bluefield River and the neighboring town of Bluefields, Nicaragua were named.
One of the last of the Dutch corsairs of...
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