1698 in piracy

Events

January 30 – Captain William Kidd plunders the Quedagh Merchant, an Armenian merchant vessel sailing under French passes, near the Malabar Coast.[2]
April – Kidd encounters Robert Culliford's pirate vessel Mocha Frigate at Île Sainte-Marie. Most of Kidd's crew desert to Culliford. Kidd burns the Adventure Galley and takes his remaining crew aboard the Adventure Prize (ex-Quedagh Merchant).[2]
September – Culliford and Dirk Chivers plunder the Great Muhammed.[3]

Undated – Canoot attacks and steals John Redwood's ship[4] then raids the town of Lewes the next day.[5]
Undated – William Cotter and his former shipmate John Blackmore are convicted of piracy but receive no punishment.[6]

Undated – Anne Dieu-le-Veut is released from Colombia after being captured by Spain.[7]

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