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Ports of 1715
In 1715 a merchant captain could sail from the cod harbours of New England to the sugar islands of the Caribbean, the forts of West Africa and the corsair ports of the Mediterranean. Silver & Sails has 79 of these real places. Here is what each one was like, and what it traded.
Caribbean, Gulf and Spanish Main 38 ports
Nassau
The Bahamas town pirates ran from about 1713 to 1718, until Woodes Rogers arrived with the King’s pardon.
Read the full history ⟶Havana
Spain’s fortified treasure fleet harbour, where tobacco growers rose against the royal monopoly from 1717 to 1723.
Read the full history ⟶Tortuga
The real buccaneers’ island off Hispaniola, busiest from the 1630s to the 1670s and a quiet French outpost by 1715.
Read the full history ⟶Port Royal
The sunken buccaneer town that became the Royal Navy’s base in Jamaica, where Calico Jack was hanged in 1720.
Read the full history ⟶Cartagena
Spain’s walled port on the Spanish Main: home base of the galleons, a slave market under the asiento, and neighbour of free Palenque.
Read the full history ⟶- Harbour Island English proprietary colony · sells salt and salt cod
- Exuma Cays English proprietary colony · sells salt and salt cod
- Grand Turk English Crown colony · sells salt
- Trinidad de Cuba Spanish Crown · sells sugar, tobacco and hides & deerskins
- Santiago de Cuba Spanish Crown · sells tobacco, sugar and hides & deerskins
- Santo Domingo Spanish Crown · sells hides & deerskins, lumber and tobacco
- San Juan Spanish Crown · sells sugar and hides & deerskins
- Cap-Français French Crown · sells molasses, sugar and brandy & wine
- Léogâne French Crown · sells molasses, sugar and brandy & wine
- Petit-Goâve French Crown · sells molasses, sugar and brandy & wine
- Île-à-Vache Buccaneer haven
- Charlotte Amalie Danish West India Company · sells molasses, sugar and brandy & wine
- Basseterre English Crown colony · sells sugar, molasses and rum
- Charlestown English Crown colony · sells sugar, molasses and rum
- St. John's English Crown colony · sells sugar, molasses and rum
- Oranjestad Dutch free port · sells cloth & tools, brandy & wine, muskets & powder, molasses, sugar, rum and cacao
- Plymouth English Crown colony · sells sugar, molasses and rum
- Basse-Terre French Crown · sells molasses, sugar, cacao and brandy & wine
- Saint-Pierre French Crown · sells molasses, sugar, cacao and brandy & wine
- Bridgetown English Crown colony · sells sugar, rum and molasses
- Port of Spain Spanish Crown · sells cacao and tobacco
- La Guaira Spanish Crown · sells cacao, tobacco and hides & deerskins
- Salt Tortuga Buccaneer haven · sells salt
- Willemstad Dutch free port · sells cacao, cloth & tools, brandy & wine, muskets & powder, salt, tobacco and hides & deerskins
- Bonaire Dutch free port · sells salt
- Maracaibo Spanish Crown · sells tobacco, cacao and hides & deerskins
- Portobelo Spanish Crown · sells cacao
- Bluefields Miskito alliance · sells lumber, logwood and hides & deerskins
- Roatán Buccaneer haven · sells lumber and logwood
- Belize Logwood camps · sells logwood and lumber
- Campeche Spanish Crown · sells logwood and cacao
- Veracruz Spanish Crown · sells sugar and tobacco
- Paramaribo Dutch free port · sells sugar, molasses, cacao and brandy & wine
North America 17 ports
- Portsmouth English Crown colony · sells lumber and salt cod
- Boston English Crown colony · sells salt cod, lumber, rum and cloth & tools
- Newport English charter colony · sells rum and salt cod
- New York English Crown colony · sells flour, lumber and hides & deerskins
- Philadelphia English proprietary colony · sells flour, lumber and hides & deerskins
- Annapolis English proprietary colony · sells tobacco, flour and lumber
- Hampton English Crown colony · sells tobacco, lumber and hides & deerskins
- Bath English proprietary colony · sells lumber, tobacco and hides & deerskins
- Ocracoke Buccaneer haven
- Cape Fear Buccaneer haven · sells lumber, hides & deerskins and rice
- Charles Town English proprietary colony · sells hides & deerskins, rice and lumber
- St. Augustine Spanish Crown · sells hides & deerskins
- Pensacola Spanish Crown · sells lumber
- Mobile French Crown · sells hides & deerskins and lumber
- New Orleans French Crown · sells lumber and hides & deerskins
- St. George's English Crown colony · sells salt and lumber
- Newfoundland English Crown colony · sells salt cod
Europe and the Atlantic islands 9 ports
- London Kingdom of Great Britain · sells cloth & tools and muskets & powder
- Bristol Kingdom of Great Britain · sells cloth & tools and muskets & powder
- Glasgow Kingdom of Great Britain · sells cloth & tools
- Amsterdam Dutch Republic · sells cloth & tools, muskets & powder, flour, lumber and brandy & wine
- Bordeaux Kingdom of France · sells brandy & wine, salt, flour, cloth & tools and muskets & powder
- Nantes Kingdom of France · sells salt, cloth & tools, brandy & wine and muskets & powder
- Lisbon Kingdom of Portugal · sells salt, sugar, tobacco and brandy & wine
- Madeira Kingdom of Portugal · sells brandy & wine
- Azores Kingdom of Portugal · sells flour and brandy & wine
Mediterranean 7 ports
- Cádiz Kingdom of Spain · sells salt, brandy & wine, cloth & tools and muskets & powder
- Salé Sultanate of Morocco · sells hides & deerskins, flour and ivory
- Algiers Ottoman regency · sells flour and hides & deerskins
- Tunis Ottoman regency · sells flour and hides & deerskins
- Tripoli Ottoman regency · sells hides & deerskins and ivory
- Gibraltar British garrison
- Port Mahon British garrison · sells brandy & wine
West Africa 8 ports
- Cape Verde Kingdom of Portugal · sells salt and hides & deerskins
- Gorée Kingdom of France · sells ivory and hides & deerskins
- James Island Royal African Company fort · sells hides & deerskins and ivory
- Bunce Island Royal African Company fort · sells logwood and ivory
- Cape Coast Castle Royal African Company fort · sells ivory
- Elmina Dutch Republic · sells ivory
- Whydah African kingdom
- Luanda Kingdom of Portugal · sells ivory