Ralph Stout

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Ralph Stout (died 1697) was a pirate active in the Indian Ocean. He is best known for rescuing fellow pirate Robert Culliford after each of them spent separate 4-year periods in Mughal Empire prisons.

History

Bombay. There they signed aboard the East India Company ship Mocha under Captain Edgecombe. A few days later Stout led a mutiny, murdering Edgecombe and renaming the ship Defence[2] (some records still refer to it as Mocha).[3] Stout was elected Captain for his role in the mutiny.[4]

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Burma they captured a ship with Robert Culliford’s crew aboard, who had only recently staged their own escape and mutiny.[5] Near the Nicobar Islands, Stout picked up the rest of the crew and Culliford himself, who had been marooned when prisoners on Culliford's captured ship rebelled and ejected the pirates.[5] Stout gained a reputation for cruelty,[6] one occasion trapping prisoners in their ship and burning them alive, on another mutilating a captured Portuguese priest.[1]

Later in 1696 Stout was sailing alongside Richard Bobbington and later John Ireland’s ship Charming Mary, looting a dozen ships.[1] They separated soon after;[6] Stout took the Mocha to the Laccadive Islands,[6] where he was killed in June 1697.[5] Conflicting reports have him either slain by angry natives,[6] or by his own crew when he announced he wanted to retire from piracy.[2] Robert Culliford was given command of the Mocha after Stout's death,[6] later sailing alongside Nathaniel North and Dirk Chivers,[7] and meeting William Kidd.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Ossian, Rob. "Ralph Stout". www.thepirateking.com. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  2. ^ a b Biddulph, John (1907). The Pirates of Malabar: And An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago. London: Smith, Elder. pp. 32–34. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  3. ISBN 9780191668654
    . Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  4. ^ Romano, Heidi Bosch. "Pirate History: Famous Pirates, Privateers, Buccaneers, and Corsairs J-L". www.privateerdragons.com. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
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    ISBN 9781612308968
    . Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  6. ^ a b c d e Office, Great Britain Public Record (1905). Calendar of State Papers: Colonial Series ... London: Longman. p. 366. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  7. ^ Johnson, Captain Charles (1724). A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE PYRATES. London: T. Warner. p. 124. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  8. ISBN 9780486131948
    . Retrieved 3 July 2017.
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