Love on the high sea Part 2 We Remember Candy.. By Clifton Seeney

​ We remember Candy, not
since Anne Bonny has there been a more fearsome female pirate. Candy was taken on
broad one of the sloops as we were leaving Italy a right skinny Gal she was and very feral
she was, nevertheless it did not take her long to get a reputation in the fleet. After she
started eating on a regular basis, she started to show promise as an able seamen able to
handle her self on the top sails of that sloop. She was also like a mermaid when it came
to swimming. She was one of the few that El Captaine would chose to swim to a ship that
the Man of war was attacking . Once we cleared Gibraltar we headed for open waters.
Not long after a British patrol was on us, the fleet was forced to scatter. Candy’s Sloop
was pursued by a lone frigate. (vessels of 28 guns and above were classed as 'frigates'
until 1817, thereafter ships of up to 32 guns were also counted as sixth rates)
The frigate not only out gunned the sloop but was much
larger and carried more men than her Sloop. The Captaine of that Sloop was Winston
Grinder a very good looking man and tall and a excellent sailor . You could hear the
splash of the British frigates forward guns as it tried to slow the Queen of the sea. That
was the name of the Sloop, it was named that way because it carried most of the Harlots
bound for the west Indies. There was also a few Irish Marines on broad her and a crew of
thirty some able body seamen. Candy did not want to become any man’s play toy so she
dressed as a sailor and worked twice as hard as the men. Boom, you could hear the slash
of another round of shots fired at the Queen as the Frigate closed on the Queen. The MS
Hound had about one hundred men compared to Queens fifty and one hundred women.
Splash, splash, as the guns of the Hound were hitting the water not far from the after deck
of the Queen, screams and crying could be heard from the cargo hole where the women
where. More shots this time coming closer to the Queen, boom, boom , and then it tore
into the Queen as skin and blood was torn from men bodies as the spenders of wood torn
into them cries of pain as legs and lambs were torn off of the poor souls that were
unlucky then shots fired on the Queen from the British Marines tearing into heads and
bodies how much more could the Queen take? Captaine Winston turned the ship to
deliver some broadsides to pay the British back for all the death. that was going on,
boom, boom ,fire was called out. As the smoke of the guns made the white and brown
faces black, boom ,boom was the return fire of the British as guns were torn from there
placements on the Queen. Death awaited many of the her gun crews, Candy and her Van
guard were ordered out of the larder side gun ports to swim to the enemy ship and catch
them unaware. Closer and closer they swim as the two ships pulled together. Marines
firing at each other, clearing the decks of each other’s ships. You could hear the English
Captain yell “”prepare to be boarded!”. As ramps were let go so that the sailors could
engage one another in hand to hand fighting, as more shots were fired from the crows
nest of both ships killing the attackers. Outnumbered the Queens men were determine to
win, swords of steel were hitting swords of steel cling, cling as the men fighting with
swords and pistols. As the Van Guard climbed on broad the larder side of the Hound, the
hounds crew unaware of the many swimmers that were there to sound a death blow to the
British . As the fighting proceeded the British Captaine yelled out to Captaine Winston
“Do you yield?” Just as a musket shot hit Winston in the arm and leg from the craws nest
you could hear, “Sails, Sails!” Who’s ships were coming, British or El Captaine’s ship. As
they closed and the black was flying high, boom ,boom as the Pirates ships fired in
unison on the lone British ship winning the day for the dying Captaine Winston and his
crew, a new ship to add to the pirate fleet. The British crew who did not pledge to serve
El Captaine were left a drift.
The Hound earned it’s name with Captaine Richard’s at it’s head and Candy leading the
van guard. They were unstoppable once they reached the west Indies. Not since Jack
Reckon and Ann Bonny where there ever two more exciting pirates .Raiding the south
coast of what was now New France and New Orleans and carrying off slaves and goods.
Sailing was calling the youth of America and it was not hard recruiting new young men to
man to the Hound. The Hound along with two smaller ships, which were used to hide the
real killer the Hound. It took all the power that El Captaine had to keep them from going
on their own. They were hardly ever at the new kingdom he set up, only to unload their
bounty and get paid by the quartermaster Mr. Tucker. After they were refitted and were
off to get the wind on some unsuspecting ship with information drying up because of the
Americans the highest bidder would get on information on the best ship to hunt. The
Hound was bringing in twice the money as any other ship, so El Captaine let them go.
Nevertheless, two French brothers were bent on stopping the Hound.
The newspapers in Europe were reporting some crazy stories about a Pirate fleet that was
commanded by a Spanish Renegade who recruited slaves to be his crew and that they
were eating the people that they caught. The real story was that this took the minds off of
what old Bony (Bonaparte) was doing. He was now Emperor of countless Kingdoms and
it also was helping the Government of England since the slavers were now bringing their
slave ships to Liverpool to wait for escorts to the American city. Namely, Boston this
was playing into the hands of the anti – slave movement by fear and the fact that an
English city was now a slave port. It was costing the Royal Navy time and men escorting
these slavers to America since they were now traveling in fleets. The papers also said that
the Irish regiment was causing up risings in Ireland and that it was not only a pubic
notices but a national one that called for the invasion of Ireland at once. All of these
stories were fabrication because at this time El Captaine fleet was south of the Bermuda
island and not off the cost of Africa.

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