In 1720 he was appointed mate to H.M.S. Weymouth, on board of which he died a year later at the age of 45.
Selkirk is immortalized in literature, not only by Defoe, but by Cowper in his "Lines on Solitude," beginning: "I am monarch of all I survey."
SHARP, Rowland.
Of Bath Town in North Carolina.
One of Major Stede Bonnet's crew. Tried for piracy at Charleston in 1718 and found "not guilty."
SHASTER, Roger.
One of Captain Heidon's crew of the pirate ship John of Sandwich, which was wrecked on the coast of Alderney. Shaster was arrested and hanged at St. Martin's Point, Guernsey, in 1564.
SHAW, John.
One of Captain Lowther's crew. Hanged at St. Kitts on March 11th, 1722.
SHERGALL, Henry, or Sherral. Buccaneer.