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About Robert Snape
In 1695, aboard the captured French frigate La Vengeance, renamed The Black Maw, Snape orchestrated a three-day blockade of Port Royal’s eastern harbor not to plunder, but to force negotiations over seized English merchant letters of marque. Unlike contemporaries who burned or sank prizes, he maintained meticulous logs of cargo provenance, later used in Admiralty Court to exonerate two Bristol merchants wrongly accused of smuggling. His 1698 manifesto, scrawled on sailcloth and nailed to Kingston’s customs house door, demanded formal recognition of privateer rights amid rising Crown suppression, and included hand-drawn charts of safe anchorages near Dominica, annotated with tidal notes still accurate today. Snape never accepted a royal pardon, nor did he retire; he vanished after refusing to testify against fellow captains during the 1701 Jamaica Commission inquiry, leaving behind only a sealed chest delivered to Trinity House, its contents never opened.
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- “What made your blockade of Port Royal in 1695 different from typical pirate raids?”
- “How did you verify cargo provenance without modern documentation?”
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- “Did the tidal charts you drew near Dominica ever get used by the Royal Navy?”