Captain Thomas Green

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Thomas Green (?-1705) was an alleged English pirate, who was captain of the Worcester. He was hanged on Leith sands in Scotland.

Greenwas celebrated in a contemporary ballad:

Of all the pirates I’ve heard and seen
The basest and the bloodiest is Captain Green

The evidence against Green has been considered flimsy.[citation needed] Attacks by English pirates were frequent in Scotland (and vice versa).

The Worcester was seized by investors of the Scottish African company, when she came into the Firth of Forth simply to weather a storm; the basis for the seizure was a violent incident off the Malabar coast in India.

[edit] References

  • Menefee, Samuel P.,"Greene, Thomas," in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 23 (2004): pp. 532-33.


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