One of the most well-known Pirates of all times was Captain Kidd--who had originally been
                                      employed to rid the sea’s of pirates.

                                      Kidd was born around 1645 (the exact date is unknown), and he found employment as an
                                      English Privateer.  The Kings officers asked Kidd to captain a new powerful ship,
                                      the Adventure Galley. The Adventure Galley was equipped with 34 cannons and a crew of
                                      80. Its mission was to capture all French ships, and the pirates of Madagascar.  Kidd
                                      accepted the proposition.

                                      Kidd thought his ship could use a better crew, so he recruited a gang of cutthroats in New
                                      York, and sailed for Madagascar. Once there, a good portion of his new crew left Kidd’s
                                      ship in order to join the pirates. The remaining portion of pirates on Kidd’s crew threatened
                                      him with mutiny unless Kidd would attack any and all ships. Kidd refused. Mutiny was
                                      close at hand, and a fight between him and the ship gunner erupted. Kidd killed the man, and
                                      the crew did not pursue the revolt further.  However, after that incident, Kidd was a changed
                                      man. He began plundering ships of all kinds along India’s Malabar coast, and had become a pirate.

                                      Kidd X thought he could fool the New Yorkers into believing that all his plunder had been taken
                                      only from French and pirate vessels, thus allowing him to keep all the booty he'd collected pirating.
                                      Unfortunately for him, he was very mistaken. A great deal of the booty belonged to the powerful
                                      British East India Company, and they discovered his trick. Kidd was arrested and shipped to England
                                      were he was sentenced to death.