1722 in piracy

Events

March - English ship Greyhound Galley seized and robbed by Spaniards.^[1]
March–April - Matthew Luke, an Italian guarda costa privateer, plunders four British vessels, killing all aboard.^[2]
May - Luke attacks English war vessel HMS Lanceston, mistaking it for a merchant ship. He and his crew are captured and brought to Jamaica, where all but seven of his crew are hanged.^[1]
August - Under the command of Thomas Anstis^[2], John Fenn's ship, the Morning Star, wrecks on Grand Cayman.^[3]

February 5 - Bartholomew Roberts' consort vessel, Ranger, captured by Chaloner Ogle.^[4]
February 10 - Roberts' ship, Royal Fortune, is overtaken and defeated by Ogle in HMS Swallow. Roberts is killed and his crew is captured.^[5]
March 28 - 52 of Roberts' pirates are sentenced to death at Cape Coast Castle.

In total, 118 pirates in Roberts' crew die after being defeated by Chaloner Ogle.^[2]

14 crew members are killed on board Roberts' vessels during the battle with Ogle:^[6]

104 of Roberts' pirates are executed or killed by the Vice Admiralty Court:^[7]

52 crew members, including Christopher Moody, Israel Hynde (or Israel Hands), are executed by hanging on April 3-20 at Cape Coast Castle.^[6]

15 crew members die of wounds en route to Cape Coast Castle.
4 crew members die in the castle dungeons while awaiting trial and/or hanging.
13 of 17 members sentenced to Marshalsea Prison die during the passage to London.
All 20 members sentenced to 7 years of labor in the Cape Coast mines die before finishing their sentence.
1 of 2 members with respited guilty sentences dies (unknown if by execution or natural causes).^[7]

February 10 - Bartholomew Roberts, who reportedly robbed 470 vessels in his career, killed in action off Cape López.^[8]

^ ^a ^b Defoe, Daniel (1724). A general history of the pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (2nd ed.). T. Warner. pp. 38–39.
^ ^a ^b ^c Gosse, Phillip (1924). "The Pirates' Who's Who". www.gutenberg.org. Burt Franklin. ISBN 978-1605970462. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
^ Wells, David (October 1, 2018). A Brief History of the Cayman Islands. The West India Committee. p. 17.
^ "Capt Bartholomew Roberts (c.1682 - 1722)". Royal Museums Greenwich. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
^ Cordingly, David (2006). Under the Black Flag: the romance and the reality of life among the pirates. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks. pp. xix. ISBN 978-0-307-76307-5.
^ ^a ^b Defoe, Daniel (1724). A general history of the pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (2nd ed.). T. Warner. pp. 321–326.
^ ^a ^b Breverton, Terry (September 1, 2010). Breverton's Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea (1st ed.). Lyons Press. pp. 268, 269. ISBN 978-1599219790.
^ Lane, Kris (2019). Piracy in the Early Modern Era : An Anthology of Sources. Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated. pp. xiii. ISBN 9781624668241.