Sailing the Spanish Main from Panama, 5 Days north across the Caribbean Sea to the home of 'pirates, cutthroats, whores and some of the vilest persons in the whole world', Port Royal, Jamaica. In the late 1600's, the richest and wickedest city in the world noted for its 'gaudy display of wealth and loose morals'. Noted by a contemporary, Mary Carleton, one of the city's more engaged prostitutes, '"A stout figure she was, or else she never could have endured so many batteries and assaults... she was as common as a barber's chair: no sooner was one out, but another was in."
Sitting on the trade route from Spain to Panama, Port Royal , with its massive accumulation of wealth., was frequented by Henry Morgan, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, and Calico Jack Rackham with his two lady pirates, Anne Bonny and Mary Read, When Rackham's ship was captured, both women escaped the hangman on the town's Gallows Point by 'pleading their bellies'. They were both pregnant. Calico Jack had no such luck.
On June 7, 1692 an earthquake struck Jamaica and Port Royal slid into the sea. Divine Justice or arbitrary seismatics?
