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OFFICIAL 2017 PROGRAMME PLEASE TAKE ONE ( DONATIONS WELCOME! ) Programme Sponsored By Chamber of Commerce 3LUDWH)HVWLYDO9LVLW'UDNHıVVKLSLQ%UL[KDP+DUERXU 6LU )UDQFLV 'UDNH 6DLORU 6ROGLHU 3ROLWLFLDQ (QJLQHHUDQGH[WUDRUGLQDU\H[SORUHU/RWVWRVHH DQGGRRQERDUGIRUHYHU\RQHFRPHUDLQRUVKLQH Golden Hind Brixham’s Treasure ZZZJROGHQKLQGFRXN 7KH4XD\VLGH%UL[KDP'HYRQ74$: This year’s festival is once again spread over 3 days but with some very exciting new events. We have the world renowned Nao Victoria coming into Brixham for the rst time, this is the rst ship to circumnavigate the globe back in 1519/1522 and will be open to the public during the festival! We have various shanty bands plus more exciting live skirmishes on the Golden Hind at noon, and on the Nao Victoria at 3pm. This year’s event has been planned by the same Committee who won the “Silver Award For Best Event” for last year’s festival. The committee salutes all those who have helped put on this year’s exciting festival by way of donations, sponsorships and volunteering. Once again we have expanded the festival with a Shanty Town (complete with gibbets and skeletons) on The Knuckle, also a large dedicated children’s area which is situated on Prince William Square complete with stilt walkers, re eaters and mermaids! Ocial festival signs made from shipwrecks are all around town pointing out attractions. We are also recruiting new crew members to join “The Brixham Pirate Crew” this year! For only £3.50 you can get your very own Pirate Articles complete with a genuine wax seal melted in front of you! Just make your mark on the parchment and become one of the crew! Our festival is self-funding and relies on support from local businesses, sponsors & private individuals, without which this festival would not happen. We encourage visitors to spend your coin at the establishments listed here in our Thank You section or who have an ocial Black Sam festival sticker on display. Please show your support by dropping coins and sheets into our collection tins & buckets marked with our logo to ensure the festival can continue. New this year is the addition of Festival wrist bands. For a small donation of £1 a day you can be entered into our daily prize draw, as well as showing your public support for the festival. Enjoy this year’s festival but above all stay safe and if you have children please make them aware that if they get lost just look for security members in yellow jackets or committee members in blue high-vis, who will take them to the lost children point. HUZZA!!! 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TQ5 9QW We make holiday magic 2017 Festival Lineup 11:00 Pirates of St Piran Pirates of St Piran Tricorn Shonkey 12:00 Skirmish on the Skirmish on the Golden Hind Golden Hind 12:30 The O’Marleys Old Gaffers GurdyBird 2:00 Boarding Crew Captain’s Beard Old Gaffers 3:00 Skirmish on the Skirmish on the Nao Victoria Nao Victoria 3:30 Neck Hornswaggle Black Friday 5:00 The Salts The Pyrates Finish (4:30) but a fogbut came a fog down came anddown the and two the ships two lost ships sight lost of sight one of one another.another. ShortlyShortly after midnight after midnight a violent a violent storm blewstorm up blew and up drove and thedrove the WrittenWritten by Ed Fox by Ed Fox two shipstwo towards ships towards the land. the land. SamuelSamuel Bellamy Bellamy was one was of oneseveral of several pirates pirates from Devon from Devon during during the so-calledthe so-called ‘golden ‘golden age’ of age’ piracy of piracyin the seventeenthin the seventeenth and and The MaryThe Anne Mary was Anne battered, was battered, but safely but beached.safely beached. The Whydah The Whydah eighteentheighteenth centuries. centuries. was smashedwas smashed about aboutand in andthe smallin the hours small ofhours 27 April of 27 1717, April 1717, within withinsight of sight land, of sank land, to sank the oceanto the oceanoor. Of oor. the Of146 the men 146 and men and He wasHe born was in born Hittisleigh, in Hittisleigh, just north just ofnorth Dartmoor, of Dartmoor, early in early 1689, in 1689, boys aboardboys aboard only two only managed two managed to swim to ashore. swim ashore. Bellamy Bellamy himself himself and it’sand likely it’s that likely his that mother his mother died in died childbirth, in childbirth, for she for was she was went downwent withdown his with ship his and ship his and body his was body not was among not among those those buriedburied a month a month before before young youngSamuel Samuel was christened was christened on 18 on 18 recoveredrecovered in the followingin the following weeks. weeks. March.March. Very littleVery is little known is known about abouthis early his life, early but life, in 1715but in he 1715 joined he joined with hundredswith hundreds of other of young other youngadventurous adventurous men to men raid tothe raid the wreckswrecks of a Spanish of a Spanish treasure treasure eet which eet whichhad been had blown been blownashore ashore in Florida.in Florida. Finding Finding that most that of most the treasureof the treasure was either was well-either well- guardedguarded or already or already removed removed Bellamy Bellamy and many and othersmany othersturned turned to to piracy.piracy. Beginning Beginning his career his careerin a dugout in a dugout canoe canoewith a withfew friends a few friends he capturedhe captured ship after ship ship after and ship gradually and gradually increased increased his crew. his He crew. He The twoThe survivors two survivors from the from Whydah, the Whydah, along withalong six with from six the from the was anwas associate an associate of several of several well-known well-known pirates, pirates, including including Charles Charles Mary Anne,Mary wereAnne, captured were captured and tried and for tried their for piracy: their piracy: six were six were Vane andVane the and notorious the notorious Blackbeard. Blackbeard. hanged,hanged, one sold one into sold slavery, into slavery, and only and one only acquitted. one acquitted. Despite Despite being onebeing of onethe mostof the powerful most powerful pirates pirates of the age,of the Bellamy’s age, Bellamy’s In earlyIn 1717 early Bellamy 1717 Bellamy and his and crew his captured crew captured a new, apowerful, new, powerful, story wouldstory wouldbe largely be largely forgotten forgotten today hadtoday it nothad been it not for been the for the and fastand slave fast ship slave called ship thecalled Whydah, the Whydah, which whichthey tted they out tted as outa as a discoverydiscovery of the wreckof the ofwreck the Whydahof the Whydah in 1984 in by 1984 divers by diversworking working pirate vesselpirate vesseland plundered and plundered along thealong American the American coast as coast they as they for treasure-hunterfor treasure-hunter Barry Cliord. Barry Cliord. sailed Northsailed towardsNorth towards Massachusetts Massachusetts where, where, according according to legend to legend rather ratherthan history, than history, Bellamy Bellamy had a loverhad a named lover named Goody Goody Hallett Hallett in in For overFor thirty over yearsthirty underwater years underwater archaeologists archaeologists have excavated have excavated Welleet,Welleet, Cape Cod. Cape Cod. the wreck,the wreck, but it was but theit was 1985 the discovery 1985 discovery of the ship’sof the bell, ship’s with bell, with her nameher castname upon cast it, upon which it, whichenabled enabled a positive a positive identication identication of of On 26 OnApril 26 the April crew the of crew the Whydahof the Whydah captured captured a small a sloop small sloop the wreckagethe wreckage and she and remains she remains to this today this the day only the denitively only denitively called thecalled Mary the Anne Mary and Anne some and ofsome the piratesof the pirates went aboard went aboard her, her, identiedidentied pirate shipwreckpirate shipwreck in the world.in the world. but a fogbut came a fog down came anddown the and two the ships two lost ships sight lost of sight one of one another.another. ShortlyShortly after midnight after midnight a violent a violent storm blewstorm up blew and up drove and thedrove the WrittenWritten by Ed Fox by Ed Fox two shipstwo towards ships towards the land. the land. SamuelSamuel Bellamy Bellamy was one was of oneseveral of several pirates pirates from Devon from Devon during during the so-calledthe so-called ‘golden ‘golden age’ of age’ piracy of piracyin the seventeenthin the seventeenth and and The MaryThe Anne Mary was Anne battered, was battered, but safely but beached.safely beached. The Whydah The Whydah eighteentheighteenth centuries. centuries. was smashedwas smashed about aboutand in andthe smallin the hours small ofhours 27 April of 27 1717, April 1717, within withinsight of sight land, of sank land, to sank the oceanto the oceanoor. Of oor. the Of146 the men 146 and men and He wasHe born was in born Hittisleigh, in Hittisleigh, just north just ofnorth Dartmoor, of Dartmoor, early in early 1689, in 1689, boys aboardboys aboard only two only managed two managed to swim to ashore.