Description: Simon Hatley. Simon Hatley (1685 after 1723) was an English sailor involved in two hazardous privateering voyages to the South Pacific Ocean. With his ship beset by storms south of Cape Horn Hatley shot an albatross an incident immortalised by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (illustrated). Hatley went to sea in 1708 under Captain Woodes Rogers but was captured by the Spanish on the coast of Ecuador and was tortured by the Inquisition. Hatley's second voyage under Georg
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Monday, September 30, 2019
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