Brian Rawlinson

The Buccaneers Episode 5

Julius dismisses Nan's secret affair because he is having one of his own, but still wants to continue with the marriage. Nan follows her heart. The Brightlingsea's experience a death in the family.

The young women rent a Thames-side cottage owned by a woman they later learn is pursuing the same love interest as Virginia. After Nan learns of Guy's plans to leave England, she makes an important decision about her future.

Dan and crew are summoned to Savannah by Paula Meadows to try to help Paula’s uncle to get a fair price for his tobacco crop. The uncle is bound, by law, to accept the unfairly low price offered by the South Carolina Trading Company.

After a hurricane devastates Nassau, funds are desperately needed to rebuild. Tempest learns of a Spanish treasury ship that has run aground in the storm on a nearby island and he and his crew set sail to find it.

Van Brugh produces a young man claiming to be Lord Percy Gresham, the true owner of Gresham Island, a critical outpost for the defense of New Providence. But Tempest knows that the real Percy Gresham is dead.

An epidemic strikes New Providence, and Beamish imposes a quarantine until a surgeon can be brought in. Tempest and Armando sneak away to the Spanish-held island of Sangre Rojo, where they arrest a Spanish surgeon and take him back to New Providence.

Dan Tempest returns to New Providence with a cargo of plunder, and is arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang. But Governor Rogers gives him a last-minute chance to go straight, which Tempest accepts, and he begins his new life as an ex-pirate.

Tempest and crew work up a plan to help an Indian fighter known as ‘Understandable’ Perkins, who, despite his hard work in making the Carolinas a safer place to live, is getting a raw deal from the crooked Governor of South Carolina.

Tempest and crew return from a long voyage to find that New Providence has fallen to Don Estaban and his Conquistadors. Tempest makes his way ashore, and devises a plan to re-take the island.

To spare Nassau from destruction, Beamish secretly surrenders to a Spanish captain, and, when Dickon tries to stop him, he is taken prisoner as well. They are taken to a prison in Cuba where Beamish is pressed for information on a certain English convoy.

The men on New Providence are looking forward to the arrival of some new female settlers on a ship called The Caroline. Tempest and his crew put to sea to make sure the women arrive safely to their new home.