Ralph Stout (pirate)

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Ralph Stout (pirate)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Stout
https://www.thepirateking.com/bios/stout_ralph.htm

Ralph Stout (died 1697) was a pirate active in the Indian Ocean.
He is best known for rescuing fellow pirate Robert Culliford after each of them spent separate 4-year periods in Mughal Empire prisons.

Stout led a mutiny aboard the East India Company ship Mocha under Captain Edgecombe, murdering Edgecombe.
Stout was elected Captain for his role in the mutiny.

Off Burma they captured a ship with Robert Culliford’s crew aboard, who had only recently staged their own escape and mutiny.

Near the Nicobar Islands, Stout picked up the rest of the crew and Culliford himself, who had been marooned when prisoners on Culliford's captured ship rebelled and ejected the pirates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Culliford
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicobar_Islands

Stout gained a reputation for cruelty, one occasion trapping prisoners in their ship and burning them alive, on another mutilating a captured Portuguese priest.

Stout took the Mocha to the Laccadive Islands, where he was killed
in June 1697. Reports have him either slain by angry natives,
or by his own crew when he announced he wanted to retire from piracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laccadive_Islands

Robert Culliford was given command of the Mocha after Stout's death
later meeting William Kidd.
Kidd's crew mostly abandoned Kidd and signed on with Culliford.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kidd