Robert Lane (pirate) "Queen Anne’s Revenge" was lost offshore with all hands. Robert Lane’s ship "Queen Anne’s Revenge" should not be confused with Blackbeard’s ship "Queen Anne’s Revenge", which had been grounded and wrecked at Topsail Inlet in spring 1718. Robert Lane (pirate) Robert Lane (died 1719) was a pirate active in the Caribbean and off the coast of Africa. He is best known for sailing with Edward England. Edward England had taken the ship "Pearl" (renamed "Royal James") in late 1718, pirating between the Azores and Cape Verde. In spring 1719 he took a number of ships near Gambia. Several he burned
Edward Coates (pirate) Robert Culliford, operating for several years before his eventual capture and execution several years later. Edward Coates (pirate) Edward Coates was a colonial American privateer in English service during the King William's War and later a pirate operating in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean during the mid-1690s. In 1689, Coates originally signed aboard the "Jacob" as a sailor in a privateer expedition, then under the command of Captain William Mason, and commissioned by the colonial officials in New York to raid French shipping off the coast of Quebec ""to war as in his wisdom should seem fit"". However, unable