When did an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s command Fancy?
Fancy (ship) Fancy was Henry Every's ship, and was commanded by him between May 1694 to late 1695, when he retired from piracy and the fate of "Fancy" becomes unknown.
Francis Hosier Vice Admiral Francis Hosier (1673–1727) was a British naval officer. He was lieutenant in Rooke's flagship at the Battle of Barfleur in 1693. He captured the Heureux off Cape Clear in 1710 and distinguished himself in action with the Spanish off Cartagena in 1711. He is chiefly remembered, however, for his role in the failure of the Blockade of Porto Bello, for which poor Government orders were largely responsible, during which he died of disease with thousands of his sailors.