Basil Ringrose

[2] On this trip he created extensive charts of the islands, soundings, exhaustive nautical instruction and symbols to mark rocks and shallow water.

[3] Fluent in Latin and French, he quickly learned Spanish to act as an interpreter.

At the end of the voyage, Ringrose and several crewmates took the maps and charts to Dartmouth to sell.

[6] In October 1683, Ringrose sailed on the Cygnet with Captain Charles Swan, as the Supercargo.

His maps and charts have become "A Buccaneer’s Atlas" by William Hach, a noted cartographer in London of the time.