Database: Piracy on the Northern Atlantic

NEWFOUNDLAND COAST//1720-06
Even though they were conducting the majority of their operations in the Caribbean, the pirates needed to adapt to weather conditions as well as to the Atlantic trade patterns and shipping lanes.
After his attack on forty-two ships in Brazil, Black Bart renamed one of the captured ships The Fortune and headed north towards Newfoundland. He plundered a number of ships near the coasts of and Newfoundland before returning to the West Indies in the winter.
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