Blackbeard: Queen Anne's Revenge

A brass navigational instrument known as a chart divider is among artifacts recently recovered from a shipwreck thought to be the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the infamous 18th-century pirate Blackbeard, archaeologists said in March 2009….

Underwater archaeologists from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources have been excavating the wreck—which lies 22 feet (7 meters) underwater a few miles off Beaufort, North Carolina—since 1997.

Navigational instruments were favorite targets of looting pirates, because the tools could easily be sold or traded, said archaeologist David Moore of the North Carolina Maritime Museum, who is working on the wreck site.

Complete article and pictures:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/blackbeard-artifacts/


Also see "Blackbeard's Legend, Legacy Live on in North Carolina."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/

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