‘CALICO’ JACK RACKHAM
1682 – 1720
Calico Jack was not the most successful or swashbuckling pirate, but he’s famous thanks to a few unusual events in his life on the high seas. He overthrew Charles Vane’s command of The Ranger and also had both Mary Read and Anne Bonny on his crew, entering into a romantic relationship with the later. He was captured by an English privateer in 1720 and hanged.