Author: John Black
Alternate names: John Black English sailor and privateer (1778-1802)
Born: 31 Oct 1778
Died: May 1802
Bio: Captain John Black (31 October 1778 – c. May 1802), was an English seafarer, who had a short but eventful career that included privateering and exploration. He was best known, during his own lifetime, for a mutiny on Lady Shore in August 1797, as it sailed south in the Atlantic Ocean, bound for Sydney, carrying female convicts. As a result of the mutiny, Black (a junior ship's officer at the time) and several other members of the crew were put into a small boat and left to find their way to the nearest land, being Brazil. -Wikipedia