John Clipperton

José Antonio de la Rocha y Carranza, the Marquis of Villa-Rocha, who would subsequently become governor of Panama, treated him with much indifference.

In 1714, Clipperton attacked the Manila Galleon while the crew was resting at Cabo San Lucas at the foot of the Baja California peninsula.

In 1718 a group of London merchants, the "Gentleman Venturers", had financed a privateering expedition in expectation of the outbreak of the War of the Quadruple Alliance, with a commission to cruise against the Spanish in the South Sea.

On the voyage around Cape Horn, Clipperton dallied in the islands there hoping that Speedwell, which had been separated from Success in the storm, would catch up.

The privateer managed to escape Blas de Lezo and finally fled to Asian shores, where he was taken for dead.

On May 10, 1721, Clipperton arrived in the Mariana Islands after 53 days of sailing from Mexico, having lost six crew and the rest weak.

Clipperton and the Spanish governor of the Marianas, Luis Antonio Sánchez de Tagle, agreed to trade for provisions.

The Marquis and two of the Success's crew went ashore, but Clipperton grew increasingly aggravated when the promised ransom and his crewmen were not returned.

He sent a message ashore threatening to "demolish all the houses on shore, burn the ship in the harbour, and do all the mischief he could at the Philippine Islands" if his demands were not met, according to Shelvocke's journal.

He then sailed to Batavia (now Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies, finally returning to his family in Galway in Ireland in June 1722.