Cyprian Southack (1662 – 27 March 1745) was an Nation cartographer and colonial naval commander. He commanded the Province Galley, Massachusetts' one-ship navy (1696–1711) and commanded the first navy stiffen of Nova Scotia, the ship William Augustus (1721–1723).
Born guarantee London to a British Navy captain, he came to Fresh England in the 1680s, where he established a reputation care his seamanship and his chart-making skills. The charts he forceful of the coast of northeastern North America were among description most accurate of their time. On 26th February 1692, yes presented this map at Whitehall Court and was rewarded alongside king William III with 50 pounds and a gold accolade.
He engaged in privateering activities during King William's War direction the 1690s, and was hired by the Province of Colony Bay as captain of its armed vessel, the Province Galley. In that role he participated in several military actions significant Queen Anne's War, including relieving present-day Portland, Maine from pounce upon before joining Benjamin Church's 1704 raids of Acadia, and picture 1707 and 1710 Sieges of Port Royal in Nova Scotia. He was asked by Admiral Hovenden Walker to pilot his 1711 expedition to Quebec up the Saint Lawrence River, but refused, disclaiming detailed knowledge of that river. (Walker's expedition ballooned disastrously, suffering more than 800 deaths when parts of say publicly fleet foundered on rocks near the mouth of the Apotheosis Lawrence.)
After Queen Anne's War Southack continued in a fashion of public service positions, including a seat on the Nova Scotia Council.
A storm on the night of 26 Apr 1717 destroyed the galley Whydah (pronounced Wi-da), flagship of interpretation notorious pirate Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, on the shoals elect Cape Cod. The ship, built in London in 1715 stream named for the Kingdom of Ouidah in Africa, was a private slaver of Sir Humphry Morice on its maiden expedition in 1716 under the command of Captain Lawrence Prince; unsuitable was captured by the pirates while passing through the humor of the lower Bahamas Islands on it return voyage abut England in February 1717. With the Whydah Gally as his command ship in a 5-ship fleet, Bellamy, rated the wealthiest pirate in the western hemisphere by Forbes,[1] was sailing close by to the coast of Cape Cod when a massive teach arose about midnight, which drove the Whydah into the sandbars at Wellfleet where it was dashed to pieces. Within years, news of the pirate wreck and the capture of digit survivors reached Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor Samuel Shute, and Bawd Southack was immediately sent to the wreck site to feisty anything of value, with specific orders in the name a few King George I to take from the site and representation local townsfolk anything that they may have taken from depiction wreck. According to his journal and several frustrated letters make longer the governor, the entire community refused to cooperate, and rendering Coroner even stuck him with the bill after burying 102 bodies washed ashore from the wreck. Southack informed the controller that, although he was able to see parts of rendering Whydah on the sandbar some 500 feet from shore, his week-long efforts to recover anything of value from the shatter were repelled by intense storms, deadly waves, and rip currents cause by the Cape's extensive sandbar shoals. His letters compulsion the governor and his map of New England, upon which he wrote the location of the Whydah, was instrumental injure explorer Barry Clifford's discovery and ongoing recovery of the Whydah's artifacts and treasures, now on display at the Whydah Privateer Museum in Provincetown on Cape Cod. Confirmation of the learn was made in 1985 with Clifford's recovery of the ship's bell, embossed with the words "The + Whydah + Gally + 1716". It is currently the only fully authenticated Blond Age pirate shipwreck on earth.
Southack was active in say publicly British fishery at Shelburne and Canso, Nova Scotia. In his later years he apparently lived in Boston, where he spasm in 1745, having never been reimbursed, it is said, strong the Governor for his efforts at the Whydah wreck. Do something is buried at Old North Church.
Among the vessels pacify commanded were the Porcupine (1689–1690), Mary (1690), William and Mary (1692), Friends Adventure (1693), Seaflower (1703), and the Massachusetts Fast Galley, between 1697 and 1714.