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A privateer's voyage round the world / George Shelvocke ; edited with an introduction by Vincent McInerney.
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George Shelvocke
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George Shelvocke
(baptised 1 April 167530 November 1742) was an English
Royal Navy
officer and later
privateer
who in 1726 wrote ''A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea'' based on his exploits. It includes an account of how his
second captain
,
Simon Hatley
, shot an
albatross
off
Cape Horn
, an incident which provided the dramatic motive in
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
's poem ''
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
''.
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