When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

Nearly twenty-five years before, Captain John Davis had noted, as he sailed near the Arctic Circle, `` a very great gulf, the water whirling and roaring, as it were the meeting of tides ''.

That these settlers survived at all is due in large measure to Captain John Smith, a pirate turned gentleman.

A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.

* 1776 – Captain John Barry and the captures the Edward.

Nelson focused his flagship's fire on Spartiate, while Captain Thomas Louis in Minotaur attacked the unengaged Aquilon and Captain John Peyton in Defence joined the attack on Peuple Souverain.

* Flying Fat Albert, M2, Captain John Hecker USMC

His father was Captain John Kyd, who was lost at sea.

On 11 December 1695, Bellomont, who was now governing New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, asked the " trusty and well beloved Captain Kidd " to attack Thomas Tew, John Ireland, Thomas Wake, William Maze, and all others who associated themselves with pirates, along with any enemy French ships.

English Captain John Strong, commander of the Welfare, sailed between the two principal islands in 1690 and called the passage " Falkland Channel " ( now Falkland Sound ), after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland ( 1659 – 1694 ), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

The next year Captain John MacBride established a British settlement at Port Egmont.

Francis Scott Key was born to Ann Phoebe Penn Dagworthy ( Charlton ) and Captain John Ross Key at the family plantation Terra Rubra in what was Frederick County, Maryland ( now Carroll County, Maryland ).

In 1995, Hackman played an inept Hollywood producer in Get Shorty and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in The Quick and the Dead opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington.

Another factor was the findings of the Palliser Expedition of 1857 to 1860, led by Captain John Palliser.

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

Still other stories claim that a secret line of hereditary protectors keep the Grail, or that it was hidden by the Templars in Oak Island, Nova Scotia's famous " Money Pit ", while local folklore in Accokeek, Maryland says that it was brought to the town by a closeted priest aboard Captain John Smith's ship.

* John Walker, fictional character in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons ( eldest of the Walker children and Captain of the Swallow )

* John Walker, alter ego of U. S. Agent, a comic book hero, who is an ultra-patriotic crime fighter, formerly Super-Patriot and Captain America VI

John Dirks ' The Captain and the Kids ( February 29, 1976 )

Captain Bloodshot is a pint-sized pirate rival of John Silver's.

From 1946, Dirks ' son, John Dirks, gradually began doing more of the work on The Captain and the Kids.

John Dirks ' drawing shifted slightly towards a more square-formed line, though it maintained the original style until The Captain and the Kids ended its run in 1979.

The Captain was voiced by Billy Bletcher, and John Silver was voiced by Mel Blanc.

Captain John Charles Marshall together with Thomas Gilbert came to the islands in 1788.

Captain John Underhill, one of the English commanders, documents the event in his journal, Newes from America:

In 1667, Captain John Underhill negotiated with the Matinecock Indians to purchase land for a settlement that he and his fellow colonists would call Buckram.

* Captain Fantom ( 1978 ) ( As Charles Underhill )

Captain John Underhill was born in 1597 in Baginton, Warwickshire, England, the son of John Edward Underhill.

John Edward Underhill was sergeant in the company of Captain Roger Orme.

Family seal from Captain John Underhill monument in the Underhill Burying Ground near Oyster Bay, New York

Captain John Underhill and Elizabeth Feake had five children: Deborah ( 1659 – 1697 ), Nathaniel ( 1663 – 1697 ), Hannah ( 1666 – 1757 ), Elizabeth ( 1669 – 1704 ), and David ( 1672 – 1708 ).

Captain John Underhill died on 21 July 1672 and is buried in the Underhill Burying Ground in Locust Valley, New York.

Matthews ' American Armoury and Blue Book, published in 1907, describes the arms of Captain John Underhill as follows:

Captain John Underhill, 1597 – 1672, of Boston, 1630, Governor of Piscataqua Plantation.

An excerpt of a letter from Captain Underhill to Hanserd Knollys appears in The Algerine Captive by Royall Tyler published in 1970 by Rowman & Littlefield.

* The Underhill Burying Ground is located on land granted to Captain John Underhill in 1667.

* An obelisk memorial honoring Underhill was dedicated at the Captain John Underhill gravesite in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Also eighth generation descended from Captain John Underhill.

* More information on Captain John Underhill in the Underhill Society of America website

At Fort Saybrook, Captain Mason was joined by John Underhill and another 20 men.

* Captain John Underhill