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Capture of the Fancy
The Capture of the Fancy was a famous British victory over two pirate ships under Captain Edward Low. When off Delaware Bay Low attacked a Royal Navy man-of-war which he mistook for a whaler. The resulting combat lasted several hours and ended with the capture of one pirate vessel.〔Crooker〕
==Background==
Edward Low was an eighteenth-century pirate from New England known for his extreme cruelty. He personally killed over fifty men and committed several atrocities such as forcing prisoners he captured to cannibalism. By summer of 1723 Low commanded the eighty-ton schooner named ''Fancy'' and was the most feared pirate in the Atlantic, so the British dispatched several warships on counter-piracy patrols. Accompanying ''Fancy'' was the sloop-of-war ''Ranger'' under Captain Charles Harris. ''Fancy'' was armed with ten guns and had a crew of forty-four, many of whom were forced into service. ''Ranger'' was a former French sloop which was captured by Low off Grenada earlier in 1723. Her armament and number of crew is not known. Some accounts cite Low as having commanded the sloop ''Fortune'' during the encounter with the British post ship HMS ''Greyhound'' under Captain Peter Solgard. The sixth-rate mounted a twenty gun armament and a complement of about 120 officers and crewmen.〔Crooker〕
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