Trevor Collins

isn't like some handsome muscle-bound swashbuckler Johnny Depp or something like that.

From here, his life gets a little vague for a few years leading up until the kind of main focus of what we're going to talk about today.

And we do have concrete evidence regarding a few of these major pieces that we're going to talk about, which is, like you said, awesome that it survived the test of time.

And so his historical record picks up again in 1693.

This time he has moved up the ladder, so to speak.

He is the first mate aboard a ship called Charles II.

Charles II was a privateering vessel tasked with pillaging French goods in the Caribbean.

However, things took a turn for the worse after the crew spent several months in a Spanish port without any pay.

To be very clear, they are no longer in the Caribbean.

They are actually in northern Spain.

I think they were in the city of Karuna, which

Initially, yes, they were meant to go to the Spanish West Indies here in the Caribbean, but instead they've been locked in a port.

It says that like there was issues with paperwork, which I would assume maybe are permits or orders of operation or things to do.

I don't know if you need some sort of legal documentation like that, but all of this paperwork essentially caused delays and this left the group locked in the port without any income for several months.

And at this point, every using this kind of tension is getting upset with the whole situation.

And he uses this to his advantage.

He sparks an insurgency in May of 1694.

And he says he's seizing the ship.

It is now mine.

I am a pirate and the captain of this vessel.