El Cuervo Negro



''El Cuervo Negro, under English Control. Then named the H.M.S. Nimrod in 1720''

Battleship Purposes (Gold Coast) 1700
Ordered to be one of many ships built to patrol the shores of the Gold Coast colony of England, it never encountered trouble while there was provne to be conflict there, oddly enough. However, in 1715, in an attempt to take the British colony by France, the HMS Nimrod would be battered and beaten to the pulp though still surviving. After a re-assessment of damages it would be re-assigned to be an escort ship across the Atlantic.

Escort Purposes (Atlantic Trade) 1715
Re-assigned to escort vessels across the Atlantic Ocean to various colonies, the Nimrod would safeguard many of it's small convoys. The ship proved durablein holding off small attacks by various bold pirates in the West Indies and along the Middle Atlantic colonies. Rumour had it that it may had held off Blackbeard, though never confirmed.

In 1718, the Nimrod would eventually be assigned to a large convoy though ultimately failing to it's name of fending off pirates when captured by them after a large fleet from Nassau would bring it in order to negotiate for the capture or sinking of British Merchant vessels. After being returned to British control and losing merchant ships and it's valuables, it would be ordered to serve as an expedition ship to find faster routes to the Far East.

Expeditions (Far East) 1719
Having been around for 20 years, it served very little use as a ship other than exploring. With a new and ambitious captain installed, they would set out from Massachusetts to find a faster northern route. It would take them 2 years to realize, through ice and snow, that it would not be possible to go through the icey area without properly equipped ships, and therefore was set to head back the West Indies.

1 Year after this realization, in 1721, pirates would once again capture it and re-equip it to meet their standards. The expeditions would be the last time the British would have control of the Nimrod.

Plunder Baiting (West Indies) 1721
After capturing the ship from the King's Navy,