This is my presentation of Captain Kidd’s Adventure Galley. Captain Kidd was a pirate hunter turned hunted pirate. He began as privateer commissioned by England to hunt pirates. He weighed anchor in the fall of 1696. Two years later, he took his greatest prize, the 400-ton Quedah Merchant, which was an Indian ship carrying a large treasure of gold, silver, silks and other valuables. Shortly afterwards, Kidd was declared a pirate by the same English government that had given him his commission. He was lured to Boston with a false promise of clemency, but not before he supposedly stashed much of his treasure near Long Island, NY. After surrender, Kidd was extradited to London in 1701 and hung for piracy and murder.
Captain Kidd’s main ship was called the Adventure Galley, a 284 ton, 3-masted frigate equipped with 34 cannons and designed for a crew of 150 men. After capturing the Quedah Merchant, Kidd scuttled the Adventure Galley and took over the Indian ship, renaming it the Adventure Prize.
Captain Kidd is one of the few pirates that actually did hide his treasure (or at least part of it). Some of his loot was found on Gardiner Island outside of New York before his hanging. But rumors that Kidd buried additional treasure at various points along the Jersey shore persist today.
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