The Buccaneers

Captain Woodes Rogers travels to the Bahamas to accept his new position as Governor. With him he brings a King's pardon to all who will give up piracy. Blackbeard is not convinced and suspects a trap. There is dissension among the pirates between who wants the pardon and who does not. In the confusion Blackbeard makes his escape.

The island of New Providence is in danger from pirate raiders led by Charles Vane. Governor Rogers must decide on whether to go after Vane, thus leaving the island unprotected, or repairing the damaged fort and waiting for Vane to return and strike again. A democratic vote amongst the island's hierarchy mandates a call to attack their newly presented foes, banding together to make a statement that the island is no one's for the taking.

Gov. Woodes Rogers has left the Island of New Providence and left Lt. Beamish in command as Acting Governor. Meanwhile a Spanish Galleon has sailed into the harbor presumably with peaceful intentions. While Beamish believes their message of peace the one group that does not is languishing in jail...Dan Tempest and his men arrested for a barroom brawl. Beamish is soon betrayed by the Spaniard Captain and it's up to Tempest to save the Island from the Spanish.

A raiding party of pirates led by Blackbeard is looting the storehouse of New Providence. They leave behind one teenage lad to cover their retreat. Tempest is frustrated that raids like this can happen and wants Beamish to supply him with weapons to arm his sloop so he can go to sea and take the fight to them. Beamish sees to it and the captured boy is pressed into service as Tempest's cabin boy and they head out to sea to search for Blackbeard.

A crew are at sea in search of Ambergris, better known as whale gold. A substance worth 5 times its weight in gold. When a number of the crew find a deposit on an island things get difficult when they try to hide their find from the rest of the crew. Tension inevitably amplifies when natural suspicion is raised and those in a position of possession become fixated on bettering themselves and shielding their find from the others. Greediness takes hold of the crew, with an internal struggle arising for the hefty prize up for grabs.

Three slaves escape to sea and in turn discover and capture a slave ship themselves. They know the British will be coming after them and so begins a desperate bid for freedom. Thanks to a series of fortunate incidentals, they are able to commandeer the large ship with ease, wrangle the ship's arsenal of slaves to form a band of freedmen, and stumble into the notorious Captain Tempest, who happily obliges to help the fugitives take control of their ill-fated destiny as hopeless slaves.

Tempest is tasked with securing extra gun powder from the Admiralty after a succession pirate raids. The Admiralty refuses to give him the gunpowder and Tempest has to resort to some unconventional tactics. Resorting to stealing the necessary materials at his own discretion, an intense battle breaks out between Tempest's Jolly Roger and the ground fleet on New Providence. The ensuing firefight concludes with the potential for a budding romance between Tempest and the governor's daughter, the captain's crew making it out unscathed, and a replenished arsenal of gunpowder for the troubled island.

Word comes through that a promised shipload of women is approaching New Providence. Tempest and the island administration have a concern that Blackbeard may be aware of the ship and decide to lay a trap for him if he attacks. The hybrid band of soldiers and pirates, though reluctant at first, collaborate to help the shipment of innocuous young women arrive safely without incident. Blackbeard, however, has received word of the ship's precious cargo, and sets out to take the women for himself, unaware of the trap that awaits him.

When a typhus outbreak hits New Providence, Captain Tempest must launch a desperate mission to bring relief to the dying inhabitants. He devises a mischievous plan to pose as Indians and kidnap an esteemed Spanish doctor, taking him to the British colony to treat the contagious outbreak plaguing the citizenry. The island, already in a mass state of panic, is set in a frenzy when conflicting ideas of how to contain the sickness make for a sticky situation that it appears only the Spanish doctor can maneuver.

A pirate ship is seen in the waters around New Providence, with a Spanish blockade already in place, Tempest concocts an audacious plan to not only stop the pirate but destroy his ship. After the rogue pirates set fire to Tempest's ship, Tempest and his men swear total revenge, vowing to sink the instigator, his crew and his ship to the bottom of the sea. To accomplish this he poses as an eyepatched pirate known as One Eye to infiltrate the enemy's operation and foil the ship from the inside out.

A French Privateer arrives in New Providence with a very strange cargo. As discussions continue the prospective cargo decide the matter for both parties. A group of five young women, all aboard the ship, commandeer the vessel in an effort to rid themselves of their confined patriarchal lives, taking the ship hostage and banishing all of its original crew. Things complicate when the women take one of Tempest's crew hostage, where he is desperate to convince them they are not pirates before they harm the rest of Tempest's crew or himself.

The island is running out of food. The situation becomes even more desperate when a Spanish naval ship arrives insisting that if Spanish prisoners are not released then an expected food ship will be attacked and destroyed. Captain Dan Tempest and his crew attempt to disguise one of their own as the most high-profile Spanish prisoner, though the Spanish captain sees right through the ploy and reiterates the strict non-negotiability, imploring the pirates to negotiate the trade as the terms command.

The authorities are trying to drum up more business for the colony. The first merchantmen to arrive has a crew member killed with a warning, "beware the mark of the Hawk". Dan needs to try and figure out who the murderer might have been and what the significance of the warning is. One of Captain Dan Tempest's men successfully stows away in the suspect's ship, where he must make the vessel's location known and accessible, for fear it could escape without any retribution for its deathly crimes.

The colony is celebrating the Kings birthday when a raiding party led by pirate Clip West attacks and steals most of the supplies. Once the authorities become aware of the situation, Dan is sent in pursuit of the raiding party. The thief is revealed to be a notorious pirate from Tempest's days on the high seas, who possesses a reputation too questionable for even Tempest's pirates to condone. Tempest takes the raiding party hostage aboard his ship, leading to a brutal showdown between the two rival squads.

Tempest's ship clashes with another privateer over a prize. Capt Gentleman Jack issues a warning of revenge to Tempest and his crew. But Gentleman Jack is not the person people expected him to be. After confronting the ship's captain over the prize, it is revealed that a ploy has been set in place to feign the captain's true identity. She turns out to ultimately be a woman, posing as an unsuspecting occupant of the ship, with the initial privateer posing under the false guise to subvert suspicion of her identity. Embarrassed she has been found out as a woman trying to pose as a man in charge, Tempest comforts her, understanding her plight and assuring her they are all in the same boat, so to say.

A new acting governor arrives at the colony and immediately arrests Beamish on a string of charges that will require him to return to London for a court marshal. Tempest is convinced there is a political motive behind the act and sets out to discover who is behind the action. Things are made seemingly hopeless when Tempest is arrested for a botched escape attempt for the imprisoned Lt., but he instructs his men to uncover the conspiracy in his absence and free them both.

With the Sultana out of action a Spanish warship takes the opportunity to attack the colony and arrest Governor Beamish. Tempest must find a way to rescue Beamish and stop the Spanish incursion. In response a plan is set in motion to break the innocent LT. out of his unjust sentence, during which more men are taken hostage and the operation becomes an unexpected rescue mission for a wave of Tempest's captured men.

A lawyer arrives at the colony looking for the last reaming heir to the Gresham fortune. A lad appears that everyone assumes is lying, but doubts begin to rise over the lad's true origins. Captain Dan Tempest instructs one of his younger crewman to pose as the same identity the imposter claims to be, with a debate ensuing as to which of the two lads is genuinely who they contend to be. With both prospects admittedly lying about their true identities in secret for the potential reward of an heir's fortune, the stakes could not be higher in this realm of mischief and deceit.

Tempest is tasked with transferring an important passenger from a passing British warship to Barbados all under the watchful eye of the Spanish. The passenger, a lady of royal stature, is on a mysterious mission that requires the utmost discretion, as well as minimal interference from any nearby parties. Although initially reluctant to transport the cargo, largely because of its association with the Spanish army, Captain Tempest takes a risk and assists the passenger, an upright lady in her safe passage through an active war zone.