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Encyclopedia > Bellamy Cay

Bellamy Cay is an island in the British Virgin Islands. It is the home of the restaurant and bar called "The Last Resort", but is otherwise uninhabited. It is located entirely within Trellis Bay on Beef Island, and is in the flightpath of the airport. This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...


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Bellamy Cay, British Virgin Islands (326 words)
Tony and Jackie Snell are names synonymous with Bellamy Cay located in Trellis Bay, BVI.
From 1716 to 1718, at the height of lawlessness in the British Virgin Islands, Black Sam Bellamy (a pirate of note) took a keen interest in Bellamy Cay.
Black Sam used this tiny Cay, then known as "Blanco" for his base of operations while crew members used the protection of Trellis Bay to maintain their fleet of ships including; Postillion, Mary Anne and finally, Whidah...
Pirates Story (1181 words)
Sam Bellamy was a big fl-haired, intelligent and popular leader of men, with little respect for authority, whose reputation for being generous to his victims caused him to be remembered as the Prince of Pirates.
Beef Island was reputed to be the haunt of renegades and buccaneers, and when Bellamy realised that the deputy Governor of Tortola was Captain Hall, an old privateering acquaintance from Port Royal and a well-known desperado to boot, he lost no time in sailing up to Trellis Bay where Hall was living at that time.
While Bellamy and his mates laid low in Trellis Bay, the Scarborough chased Martel to St. Croix, and then was itself driven out of the area by Blackbeard, leaving Bellamy and his men to resume their relentless patrol of the Virgins' Channel.
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