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Christopher Myngs (1625 - 1666) Ufficiale di marina inglese, ha operato nei Caraibi comandando un equipaggio pirata. Durante un attacco nella baia di Campeche, fu gravemente ferito. Francois L'Ollonais (1635 - 1668) E 'stato un pirata francese che fu attivo nei Caraibi durante 1660, la reputazione di ferocia e crudeltà vincente.
Christopher Myngs was born in 1625 in Norfolk, and he served as captain of Elizabeth during the First Anglo-Dutch War, capturing two men-of-war from the United Provinces as prizes. In 1656, he became commander of the Jamaica Station of the Royal Navy, and in February 1658 he became a commerce raider during the war with Spain in the Caribbean.
Myngs was described by Pepys as a 'very stout man, and a man of great parts, and a most excellent tongue among ordinary men'. In the Second Dutch War he fought as a flag officer at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665, and the Four Days Fight in 1666. On the fourth day he was heavily engaged with De Liefde when he was shot through the throat.
19 de dic. de 2011 · Christopher Myngs himself inherited a substantial house in Salthouse which still stands. Narbrough was from the tiny, decayed village of Cockthorpe just down the coast from Salthouse; he was probably related to Myngs as another Narbrough lived at Wiveton, even closer to Salthouse.
Vice Admiral Sir Christopher Myngs (sometimes spelled Mings, 1625–1666) was an English naval officer and privateer. He came of a Norfolk family and was a relative of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. Samuel Pepys' story of Myngs' humble birth, in explanation of his popularity, has now been evaluated by historians as to be mostly fictitious in nature.
