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30 of Kidd's best hand-picked seamen. One of Kidd's influential backers came to his aid, getting Stewart to replace the impressed sailors, but rather than returning Kidd's original crew, he substituted his worst troublemakers.
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fired a shot off Kidd's bow, forcing Kidd (surrounded by a "forest of Royal Navy warships") to heave to and be boarded. Stewart then
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was lying in the Thames when passed by famed privateer Capt.
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HMS Blenheim
HMS Duchess
HMS Windsor Castle
Royal Navy Ensign
Great Britain
second rate
ship of the line
bm
Full-rigged ship
bm
Full-rigged ship
second rate
ship of the line
Royal Navy
John Shish
Deptford Dockyard
William Kidd
Adventure Galley
impressed
Woolwich Dockyard




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