Turn Joe
Turn Joe | |
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Nationality | Irish |
Occupation | Privateer |
Turn Joe (fl. 1718) was an Irish pirate and privateer who left English service and sailed for Spain[1] instead as a guarda costa privateer in the Caribbean.
History
Turn Joe, “a bold enterprising Fellow,”[2] commanded a trio of ships under commission from a Spanish Governor in the Caribbean.[3] Off Long Island in the Bahamas in late 1718 his ships were attacked by three pirates led by John Auger and Phineas Bunce, who mistook the Spanish vessels for salt-trading sloops.[2] The pirate vessel commanded by Bunce approached and demanded the Spanish ships surrender but was met with a hail of small arms fire, killing or wounding many of the pirates. The survivors leapt overboard and swam ashore. The second pirate ship mistook the gunfire as Bunce’s and approached the anchored ships, only to be met with gunfire. Again many of them were wounded and the remainder swam ashore. The third pirate ship repeated the mistakes of the first two and was captured immediately afterward. Turn Joe’s Spanish ships suffered no casualties.[2]
After questioning his prisoners, Turn Joe put the wounded men and those he’d determined to have been forced into piracy aboard a spare boat and released them to sail back to New Providence. Bunce died of his wounds soon after arriving.[3] Woodes Rogers had been tasked with pacifying the pirates plaguing the Bahamas. When word reached New Providence that a number of pirates were nearby and likely vulnerable, Rogers sent pardoned pirate Benjamin Hornigold to retrieve them. Hornigold returned with John Auger and the surviving pirates; they were tried in November 1718 and hanged shortly after.[4] Turn Joe himself was eventually hunted down and killed by privateer John Bonnevie, who would later assist Jonathan Barnet in capturing Calico Jack.[2]
See also
- George Bond, Philip Fitzgerald, William Fox, and John Bear – four other English Captains who, like Turn Joe, sailed in Spanish service.
References
- ^ Little, Benerson (2005). The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730. Washington DC: Potomac Books, Inc. p. 102. ISBN 9781574889109. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ a b c d Johnson, Charles (1724). The history of the pyrates: containing the lives of Captain Mission. Captain Bowen. Captain Kidd ... and their several crews. London: T. Woodward. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- ^ a b Riley, Sandra; Peters, Thelma B. (2000). Homeward Bound: A History of the Bahama Islands to 1850 with a Definitive Study of Abaco in the American Loyalist Plantation Period. Miami FL: RILEY HALL. p. 75. ISBN 9780966531022.
- ^ "Ten Persons Tried at Nassau - 9-10 Dec 1718 p1". baylusbrooks.com. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
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