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June 2011 Edition

Blackbeard's flagship found & confirmed

An expedition off the North Carolina coast recovered the anchor from the wreckage of pirate Blackbeard’s ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, the anchor was retrieved from the shipwreck about 20 feet under water. The work to retrieve it began last week. The anchor is about 11 feet long and is the third-largest item located at the shipwreck, outsized only by two other anchors.

The Queen Anne’s Revenge is believed to have run aground in the shallow waters off Beaufort in 1718 some 5 months before Blackbeard was killed in a battle.

The ship was discovered in 1996, with piecemeal recovery of artifacts intensifying only a few years ago.

The expedition is trying to score a trove of 18th-century goods, which will be used to educate the public and raise awareness of underwater preservation efforts. The site has already yielded more than 250,000 artifacts, including cannons, gold, platters, glass, beads, shackles and rope, according to the state.

After 10 years of research, a North Carolina historian Lindley Butler the historian for the Queen Anne's Revenge project, concludes that a local shipwreck was indeed the flagship of Blackbeard the pirate.

The Raleigh News and Observer called his findings an "inescapable conclusion" after a decade of studying the size of the sunken ship, the number of guns it carried and the artifacts recovered from the site.

Historical records pegged the sinking of Queen Anne's Revenge by Blackbeard, who ran the vessel aground off the North Carolina coast in 1718. Butler said one of the most compelling pieces of the booty onboard was a coin weight. The small copper piece was used to determine the precise weight of coins and gold, and it possessed a likeness of Britain's Queen Anne, who reigned from 1702 to 1714. Butler said: "This is the most exciting artifact to me; you can't get any better than putting Queen Anne on the Queen Anne's Revenge

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