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((Short description|1690s pirate ship))
((About|the pirate ship|various Royal Navy vessels|HMS Fancy|the World War II minesweeper|USS Fancy (AM-234)))
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'''''Fancy''''' was a 46-gun frigate commanded by pirate [[Henry Every]] between May 1694 to late 1695.

==History==

''Fancy'' was initially a 46-gun [[privateer]] named ''Charles II''  – after [[Charles II of Spain]] – in [[Spain|Spanish]] service, commanded by a Captain Gibson, and was anchored at [[A Coruña]], [[Spain]]. On 7 May [[1694 in piracy|1694]], [[Henry Every]] and a few other conspirators organised and carried out a successful [[mutiny]] and, setting Captain Gibson ashore, left A Coruña for the [[Cape of Good Hope]]. At this time, ''Charles II'' was renamed ''Fancy''.

Upon arriving at the Cape, Every sailed to the island of [[Anjouan|Johanna (Anjouan)]] in the [[Comoros Islands]], where he had ''Fancy'' [[careening|careened]], removing barnacles and weed from the section of the hull that was permanently below water, increasing her speed. He also had ''Fancy'' [[razee]]d, intentionally removing parts of the ship's [[superstructure]] in order to increase her speed. Following this work, ''Fancy'' became one of the fastest ships active in the [[Indian Ocean]], and Every used this speed to attack and take a French pirate ship, looting the vessel and recruiting approximately 40 of the crew to his own ship, leaving him with a total complement of around 150.
[[File:Flag_of_Henry_Every_red.svg|thumb|left|Flag attributed to Henry Every]]
Every continued to be active in the Indian Ocean, where he worked alongside other famous pirates of his time, including [[Thomas Tew]]. Most notable in his captures was ''[[Ganj-i-Sawai]]'', a [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] ship under the command of [[Ibrahim Khan II|Ibrahim Khan]] during Emperor [[Aurangzeb]]'s era. Since ''Ganj-I-Sawai'' mounted 62 cannons and had four to five hundred musket-armed guards, cannon fire from ''Fancy'' was instrumental in Every's victory – the first salvo caused a cannon aboard ''Ganj-I-Siwai'' to explode, killing a number of gunners. Every's career ended when the crew returned to [[Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau]] in April 1696, in the [[Bahamas]]. He returned to Britain aboard the [[sloop]] ''Sea Flower'', arriving in Ireland in June 1696 and promptly disappearing.

Although the fate of ''Fancy'' is unknown, it was rumored that Every gave her to the governor of Nassau as a bribe. There is supporting documentary evidence that ''Fancy'' ran aground on [[New Providence]] and Governor Trott had the guns and everything of value stripped.<ref>E. T. Fox (2008) King of the Pirates, The Swashbuckling Life of Henry Every, page 109</ref>

==References==
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==Sources==
* FOX, E.T., King of the Pirates: The Swashbuckling Life of Henry Every, The History press, Stroud, Glos. 2008, ((ISBN|978-0-7524-4718-6))

==Further reading==

* BAER, Joel H. Pirates of the British Isles, Tempus Publishing, London 2005
* HANNA, Mark G., Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740, University of North Carolina Press 2015
* PRESTON, Diana & Michael, A Pirate of Exquisite Mind –The Life of William Dampier, Corgi Books 2005
* PRINGLE, Patrick, Jolly Rodger, The Story of the Great Age of Piracy, Dover Publications Inc., New York 2001

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