Navy Board, Lieutenants' Logs
Lieutenant's logbook for HMS PEARL, Part 1-10, 1715-19. July 1715 under the command of Captain Charles Poole, served with Admiral George Byng's fleet in the English Channel, and then on the coast of Scotland during the Jacobite rising of 1715. In 1716 under Captain George Gordon, HMS PEARL served first in the Baltic and North Sea, before sailing to Virginia in 1717 with Robert Maynard as first lieutenant. That year, Governor Alexander Spotswood issued an order for the capture of the pirate Blackbeard.