Edward Low | |
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![]() Capt Edward Low in ye Hurricane which He and All the Crew had Like to Perish'd by J Nicholls and James Basire, hanging in the National Maritime Museum in London | |
Born | 1690 |
Died | Disputed (1724, or 1739+) Place of death disputed |
Piratical career | |
Nickname | Ned Low |
Type | Pirate |
Years active | c.1721–c.1724 (possibly to 1739+) |
Rank | Captain |
Base of operations | Atlantic Caribbean |
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Edward Low (also spelled Lowe or Loe; c. 1690–1724) was a pirate of English origin during the latter days of the Golden Age of Piracy, in the early 18th century. Low was born into poverty in Westminster, London, and was a thief from an early age. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts, as a young man. His wife died in childbirth in late 1719. Two years later, he became a pirate, operating off the coasts of New England and the Azores, and in the Caribbean.
Low captained a number of ships, usually maintaining a small fleet of three or four. Low and his pirate crews captured at least a hundred ships during his short career, burning most of them.[1] Although he was active for only three years, Low remains notorious as one of the most vicious pirates of the age, with a reputation for violently torturing his victims before murdering them.[2]
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described Low as "savage and desperate," and a man of "amazing and grotesque brutality."[3] The New York Times called him a torturer, whose methods would have "done credit to the ingenuity of the Spanish Inquisition in its darkest days."[4] The circumstances of Low's death, which took place around 1724, have been the subject of much postulation.
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