In November, 1712, he captured the Governor of Bombay's armed yacht, together with the _Anne_ ketch from Carwar.[6] In the engagement, Mr.Chown, chief of the Carwar factory, was killed, and his young wife, a widow for the second time at the age of eighteen, became Angria's prisoner.

A month later, the _Somers_ and _Grantham_, East Indiamen, on their voyage from England to Bombay, were attacked by a grab and a gallivat belonging to Angria, off the coast north of Goa.

Owing to there being a calm at the time, the East Indiamen were unable to bring their guns to bear: "for which reason and by y'e earnest intercession of y'e whole ship's company to y'e captain" the boats of the _Somers_ and _Grantham_ were hoisted out, and an attempt was made to board the pirates.

The attack was beaten off with the loss of four men killed and seventeen wounded; but the pirates found the entertainment so little to their liking that they made off.
On hearing of the capture of the Governor's yacht, the Portuguese wrote to propose a joint attack on Angria.

A few months before, he had captured the greater part of a Portuguese 'armado,' and disabled a thirty-gun man-of-war that was convoying it.