The pirate ship, the Trompeuse. was one of the first in the golden pirate era that ended in the 1720s with the iconic captains such as Edward Teach, Ann Bonny and Jack Rackham. The reputation of Captain Jean Hamlin and his crew was terrible at the

end of the seventeenth century. Unlike most other pirates, Hamlin managed to stay out of the hands of the international pirate hunters. Details about the history of Hamlin's Trompeuse have largely remained unknown and information has been scattered throughout archives in various countries. In addition, the most important archive documents about the journey were tucked away for centuries in the archive of the Society of Suriname, a place that nobody knew was a wealth of information about these pirates. As the sources in this book show, the origin of the Trompeuse was still in the world of the buccaneers of the Caribbean, but later moved towards the new world of the pirates who moved to the African slave coast, North America and eventually even beyond the Atlantic Ocean. The collection of interviews of crew members discuss the background of the pirates, the life on board these ships and how these pirates determined their strategy and field of operation.