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Since the mid 16th Century this Bahaman island has been a pirate anchorage. An English colony, officially begun in the 1680s, soon degenerates into a loud, squalid pirate haven full of verminous and evil men. The port is named "New Providence", to distinguish it from Providence Island ("Old Providence").
On the E side of the conjunction of Northeast Providence Channel with Tongue of the Ocean, it is one of the smaller islands of the Bahamas, having a surface area of only 58 square miles. The island is extensively forested with pine scrub and largely low-lying throughout, particularly along the S side where the coast becomes swampy and fronted by shoal water flats extending well onto Great Bahama Bank.
An almost uninterrupted ridge of forested hills rises just inland of the N coast. The N side of the island is fronted by a shoal water coastal margin which, extending for the most part about 1.5 miles offshore, constitutes a foundation for several off-lying scrub-covered elongated low-lying islets in its E portion and an almost unbroken chain of sunken and awash dangers in its middle and W portions.
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Nassau
Established from the beginning as a pirate anchorage, the shallow harbor and surrounding reefs keep the Royal Navy at bay, allowing all brethren of the coast a semi-permanent base on the white sand beaches of this island, rich with bubbling freshwater springs and fresh food, a pirate paradise if ever God gave them one.
Features
Paradise Island
Near to Nassau is a small isle that is rife with superstitious fear. There are ruins upon it, thought to be a remnant of the lost civilization of Atlantis. Many speak of unworldly powers and strange creatures to be found there, though few are brave enough to dare the legends and see for sure.
Hog's Head Island
The main harbor of Nassau has its entrance split by a small island of coral reefs that look like they shipwrecked together, and it is named ‘Hog’s Head’. In some times a fort is both repaired and supplied here, to guard the harbor, but in most years it quickly returns to the abandoned, weather-beaten ruin it is destined to be.
A shallow harbour
Given the shallow depth of the main harbor, no ship larger than [Value 4] can enter it, and in the surrounding coves for miles around, no ship larger than [Value 2].
Timeline
5 Feb 1725:
- Arrived
- Delivered message to Raynard Adler
- William Rogers and Isaac Bold injured in an operation to rescue a damsel-in-distress
- Dora recovered her former captain's (Piers Hekkers) pocketwatch
6 Feb 1725:
- La Dame Blanche arrived at Nassau, Maurice Boissonade to speak to a "Captain Morgan expert" that turned out to be(?) Ned Long
12 Feb 1725:
- Departed, after ~1 week convalescence for the injured
