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Archaeologists are excavating the vessel that served as the flagship of the pirate Blackbeard, and the medical equipment they have recovered from the shipwreck suggests the notorious buccaneer had ...
Conservators have found fragments of paper that suggest the notorious 18th-century pirate Captain Edward (Blackbeard) Teach may have kept a library of books on board his ship the Queen Anne's Revenge.
Blackbeard boarded Lt. Robert Maynard’s ship three centuries ago armed with pistols and a cutlass, ready to die before surrendering. He fought viciously, but in less than 10 minutes on Nov. 2… ...
Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, was found in 1996 after centuries underwater surrounded by coal despite sinking in 1719 - more than 100 years before it was used on ships ...
MANTEO — Blackbeard boarded Lt. Robert Maynard’s ship three centuries ago armed with pistols and a cutlass, ready to die before surrendering. He fought viciously, but in less than 10 minutes ...
The paper fragments, most of which were smaller than a quarter, were found in a pile of wet gunk crammed inside the chamber of one of the cannons of Blackbeard’s iconic ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge.
Captain Hornigold gave the ship to one of his men to captain -- Blackbeard. Blackbeard didn't have the ship for long. He ran her aground in May of 1718 at Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, and left ...
A shipwreck off the North Carolina coast believed to be that of notorious pirate Blackbeard could be fully excavated in three years, officials working on the project said. IE 11 is not supported.
Blackbeard was able to capture this ship easily because much of its crew was either sick or dead due to disease. A few months into 1718, the Queen Anne's Revenge ran aground on a sandbar at ...
MANTEO, N.C. Blackbeard boarded Lt. Robert Maynard’s ship three centuries ago armed with pistols and a cutlass, ready to die before surrendering. He fought viciously, but in less than 10 minu… ...
Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, was found in 1996 after centuries underwater surrounded by coal despite sinking in 1719 - more than 100 years before it was used on ships ...