Benjamin Hornigold seize other vessels with impunity. Hornigold's second-in-command during this period was Edward Teach, who would later be better known as the pirate Blackbeard. When Hornigold took command of the "Ranger", he delegated the captaincy of his earlier sloop to Teach. In the spring of 1717 the two pirate captains seized three merchant ships in quick succession, one carrying 120 barrels of flour bound for Havana, another a Bermudian sloop with a cargo of spirits and the third a Portuguese ship travelling from Madeira with a cargo of white wine. In March 1717, Hornigold attacked an armed merchant vessel sent to
Andrew Norton (Pirate Party) constituted a commercial website. Nominet claims to have now changed their policies on what qualifies as a commercial site. Norton was the editor of and contributor to "No Safe Harbor", a collection of essays about Pirate politics. He is also an occasional contributor to publications such as TechDirt and SERVO Magazine. In April 2017, he announced his next book would focus on analysing the politics and philosophy of the Discworld universe. Andrew Norton (Pirate Party) Andrew Norton (known also by his pseudonym "K`Tetch"; born 24 June 1980), is a British roboticist, politician and researcher. He is a former Coordinator of