Benjamin Hornigold, an out of work sailor, leaves Port Royal, Jamaica, after the Queen Anne's War (1713), and sails to Nassau on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, where he purchases a.sailing canoes and become a pirate. The next year he acquires a sloop and crew and becomes the leader of the non-Jacobite faction that frequents Nassau Harbor as their safe haven. He sails in consort with Blackbeard (Edward Thache), Major Stede Bonnet, Black Sam Bellamy and his partner Paulsgrave Williams, and the French pirate, Oliviler LeVasseur. Follow Hornigold's career until he accepts King George's pardon in 1718 and becomes a pirate hunter.