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The pirate Blackbeard's flagship may finally be yielding its identity after nearly 300 years on the ocean floor. Though researchers have yet to find definitive proof, evidence continues to surface off the coast of North Carolina that wreckage there was once the vessel known as Queen Anne's Revenge.
The wreck has generated attention ever since its 1996 discovery in Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina.
The wreckage includes a dozen cannon and large anchors rated for a 350-ton (355-metric-ton) ship, found amid a mound of debris where records indicate Blackbeard's flagship ran aground in 1718.
said Mark Wilde-Ramsing,
director of the Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project, a consortium of researchers investigating the wreck.
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posted on 18-7-2005 http://news.nationalgeograp...
The pirate Blackbeard's flagship may finally be yielding its identity after nearly 300 years on the ocean floor. Though researchers have yet to find definitive proof, evidence continues to surface off the coast of North Carolina that wreckage there was once the vessel known as Queen Anne's Revenge.
The wreck has generated attention ever since its 1996 discovery in Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina.
The wreckage includes a dozen cannon and large anchors rated for a 350-ton (355-metric-ton) ship, found amid a mound of debris where records indicate Blackbeard's flagship ran aground in 1718.
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We have extensive historical records, and there is no
evidence of any [other] vessel of this kind of armament sinking anywhere during the 18th century on this coast,