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The lost tribe of Fiordland

Sewell Prescott Moody, owner of North Vancouver’s Moodyville Mill, died in the sinking of the Pacific in 1875. Salvagers may have located the ship.

On November 4, 1875, the Pacific, a wooden sidewheel steamer, was carrying 52 crew members, about 225 passengers, 300 bales

The day was Thursday July 7th, 1877, and William Smith Sr. sat up from bed. He knew it was 5 a.m.

As world trade burgeoned in the age of colonial expansion, valuable cargoes were transported across the worlds oceans, providing vast opportunity for piracy on the seas. Who were the most famous pirates, and who were the worst? And were there any female pirates? Here are 14 of historys most despicable pirates, who plundered the seas from the ports of the American colonies to the Indian Ocean…