Features biographies of various well known and less known pirates. Include some general information on the ships and period. This page is dedicated to the memory of Bartholomew Roberts and this site contains Bios on more that 70 Pirate Captains: Bartholomew Roberts born John Roberts, Sir Christohper Myngs, Manuel Pardal Rivero, Sean David Nau aka Francois L'Olonnais, Sir Henry Morgan, Sir Francis Drake, John Hoar, William Parker, John Oxenham, Lawrence Prince, John Ward, William May, Sir Anthony Sherley, Ralph Stout, Benjamin Hornigold, Nathaniel North, Conajee Angria and his sons, Stede Bonnet, Jean Lafitte, William Kidd, Guillaume Le Testu, Sir Michael Geare, Sir John Hawkins, Israel Hands, Edward Mansfield, Thomas Howard, Thomas White, John Halsey, John Rackham aka Calico Jack, Edward Drummond aka Edward Teach or Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Samuel Bellamy, John Callice, Thomas Tew, William Fly, Simon Simonson, Ned Low, Henry Jennings, George Lowther, John