This part of our website includes allsorts of interesting people from Welsh Pirates like Black Bart to explorers and cartographers (map makers) to magnificent hero's like Harold Lowe. True one would expect nearly all of these people to be historical personalities but there are adventures with a Welsh connection alive and well and doing their best to open frontiers today, even in space with NASA astronaut Joe Tanner.
James Williams
Sailed as a hand on board the george galley from amsterdam in 1724. Conspiring with a foremast hand one john gow to bring about a mutiny.
John Evans
Was master of a sloop belonging to the island of nevis. Afterwards being in jamaica and out of employment and berths being scarce, evans decided to go "on the account". In september 1722, he rowed out of port royal in a canoe with a few chosen companions.