The Pirate Captain Ned Low: His Life and Mysterious Fate Nielsen Nicky
The Pirate Captain Ned Low: His Life and Mysterious Fate Nielsen Nicky Edward 'Ned' Low's career in piracy began with a single gunshot. He responded by grabbing a musket and inciting a mutiny. While…
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The Pirate Captain Ned Low: His Life and Mysterious Fate Nielsen Nicky
Edward 'Ned' Low's career in piracy began with a single gunshot. He responded by grabbing a musket and inciting a mutiny. While working on a logging ship in the Bay of Honduras the quick-tempered Ned was provoked by the ship's captain.
Low's name became synonymous with brutality and torture during the 1720s as he cut a swathe of destruction from the shores of Nova Scotia to the Azores, the coast of Africa and throughout the Caribbean. Then the London-born sailor and a dozen of his crewmates held a council, stitched a black flag and voted to make war against the whole world preying on ships from any nation, flying any flag. Ned Low's life was one of failed redemption: a thief from childhood who briefly rose in the world after moving to America, only to fall again lower and harder than before.
He was feared even by his own crew, and during his life on the wrong side of the law he became