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Blackbeard's Sunken Prize - The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne's Revenge (Paperback)
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Blackbeard's Sunken Prize - The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne's Revenge (Paperback)
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In 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving
vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship,
renaming it Queen Anne's Revenge. Over the next six months, the
heavily armed ship and its crew captured all manner of riches from
merchant ships sailing the Caribbean to the Carolinas. But in June
1718, with British authorities closing in, Blackbeard reportedly
ran Queen Anne's Revenge aground just off the coast of what is now
North Carolina's Fort Macon State Park. What went down with the
ship remained hidden for centuries, as the legend of Blackbeard
continued to swell in the public's imagination. When divers finally
discovered the wreck in 1996, it was immediately heralded as a
major find in both maritime archaeology and the history of piracy
in the Atlantic. Now the story of Queen Anne's Revenge and its
fearsome captain is revealed in full detail. Having played vital
roles in the shipwreck's recovery and interpretation, Mark U.
Wilde-Ramsing and Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton vividly reveal in
words and images the ship's first use as a French privateer and
slave ship, its capture and use by Blackbeard's armada, the
circumstances of its sinking, and all that can be known about life
as an eighteenth-century pirate based on a wealth of artifacts now
raised from the ocean floor.
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