Although Avery's career as a pirate lasted only two years, his exploits captured the public's imagination, inspired others to take up piracy, and spawned works of literature.Įvery began his pirate career while he was first mate aboard the warship Charles II. ĭubbed "The Arch Pirate" and "The King of Pirates" by contemporaries, Every was infamous for being one of very few major pirate captains to escape with his loot without being arrested or killed in battle, and for being the perpetrator of what has been called the most profitable act of piracy in history. He probably used several aliases throughout his career, including Benjamin Bridgeman, and was known as Long Ben to his crewmen and associates.
1656 – Disappeared: June 1696), sometimes erroneously given as Jack Avery or John Avery, was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. Henry Every, also known as Henry Avery ( c. An woodcut from A General History of the Pyrates (1725)Ītlantic Ocean, along the Pirate Round, and the Indian OceanĪt least 11 vessels captured by September 1695, including the Ganj-i-Sawai
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