1720
Negril Point
The setting
Off Negril, western Jamaica (approx. 18.27 N, 78.35 W - approximate to the engagement area, sufficient for the map layer, not for the site)
terrain_class `coastal`. Open coastal water off a point; no shoal excluded the pursuer's hull. draft_gate = 0. scale_type `nominal`.
Reveal the outcome
Recorded sideRackham's crew (John Rackham)
Recorded resultdefeat
Jamaica sloop victory; Rackham's crew defeated, captured and tried at Jamaica in November 1720.
How the atlas explains it
Not established from an openable source. The document offers no mechanism for this outcome beyond the strength text, and none is supplied here. What the row does establish is negative and belongs to the draft reading: in coastal water with draft_gate = 0, a single Jamaica sloop was sufficient.
What followed
Retained principally for the quality of its Tier A source. The printed Jamaica trial covers Rackham's crew including Bonny and Read, and carries material on Vane's trial as well. Nearly everything popularly known about Bonny and Read is Tier X; a substantial part of it can be checked against A, and this row is where that check gets run. The row is the check's anchor, not its result - the check has not been run.