John Weddell

In July the Dragon sailed into Hornsund, where he seized the cargo of the Vlissingen ship de Arcke Noë ("Noah's Ark"), under Jan Verelle, before driving it away ballasted with stones.

As joint-admiral of an English fleet of five ships and four pinnaces, he participated in the Anglo-Persian attack on Kishm and siege of Ormuz early in 1622.

In giving a detailed account of the voyage and plunder to the High Court of Admiralty in December 1623, he was described as "of Ratcliffe, in Middlesex, gent., aged 40 or thereabouts".

[citation needed] Weddell carried home the news of William Methwold's Goa Convention, which ceased hostilities with the Portuguese and allowed the English access to their Indian resources; he now sought revenge for his treatment at the hands of the EIC.

[3] As a result, in early in 1636 Weddell was given command of six ships sent by the interloper Sir William Courten of the Courteen association, who had received a patent from the King in December 1635 to trade in the East Indies.

[4] In August 1637, the English stormed a Chinese fort and hoisted the flag of St. George to flutter in the breeze above a small island in south China.