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had many ships and many hard times throughout his life, and unfortunately he was hung on 5 counts of piracy. was born in 1645, in Scotland. He set sail in many ships including; The Adventure Galley, Quedagh Merchant, and his last ship the An ....

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... the adventure Gallery for Madagascar, Malabar, and the Red Sea Regions. In August 1667, he made an unsuccessful attack on ships sailing with mocha coffee from Yemen, but later Kidd’s crew took several small ships. Kidd captured his most valuable prize, the Armenian ship Quedagh Merchant, in January 1698 and scuttled the unseaworthy Adventure Galley. When he reached the West Indies in April 1699, he learned that he had been denounced as a pirate. He then abandoned the Quedagh Merchant at the island of Hispaniola and got aboard a newly purchased ship, the Antonio, and sailed to New York City. There he tried to persuade the colonial gove ...