What was the biggest haul ever taken by a pirate ship?
The record holder is Henry Avery’s capture of the Gang-i-Sawai, which netted a take valued at £325,000 (over $400 million today). The £3,000 payout given to each crew member was the equivalent of $3.5 million in today’s currency. Avery’s short but lucrative life as a pirate was captured in a play titled The Successful Pirate that ran for several years at Drury Lane Theatre and helped perpetuate the image of a pirate as a dashing outlaw.
