When did an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s command Fancy?
Henry Every Henry Avery, also Evory or Every, (23 August 1659 – 1699) sometimes erroneously given as John Avery, was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. He probably used several aliases throughout his career, including Benjamin Bridgeman, and was known as Long Ben to his crewmen and associates.
George Booth (pirate) George Booth (died 1700) was an English pirate who was one of the earliest active in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. His crew included the prominent captains Nathaniel North, Thomas Howard and Booth's eventual successor, John Bowen.