# George Shelvocke

> George Shelvocke was an English Royal Navy officer and later privateer who in 1726 wrote the memoir A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea based on his exploits. It includes an account of how his second captain, Simon Hatley, shot an albatross off Cape Horn, an incident which provided the dramatic motive in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

*English naval officer and privateer*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Historical Figure ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645))
- **Category:** Historical Figures
- **Born:** 1675-04-01
- **Died:** 1742-11-30
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 42.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.5 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 6.3 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 17.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 40.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 45.0 / 100

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