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 Verney Sir Francis Verney (1584 – 6 September 1615) was an English adventurer, soldier of fortune, and pirate. A nobleman by birth, he left England after the House of Commons sided with his stepmother in a legal dispute over his inheritance, and became a mercenary in Morocco and later a Barbary corsair.