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Blackbeard's sunken prize : the 300-year voyage of Queen Anne's Revenge /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wilde-Ramsing, Mark (Author), Carnes-McNaughton, Linda F. (Linda Flowers) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Queen Anne's Revenge (Sailing vessel)
Teach, Edward, > -1718.
Excavations (Archaeology) > North Carolina > Atlantic Coast.
Underwater archaeology > North Carolina > Atlantic Coast.
Shipwrecks > North Carolina > Atlantic Coast.
North Carolina > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • Meeting a pirate captain
  • A wild and crazy ride
  • The prize is lost: the journey through time
  • Opening the pirate's chest: archaeological investigations
  • Fragile remains
  • An eye to detail: examining artifacts by function
  • A tale from the high seas: archaeological interpretations
  • The legacy of the sunken prize: Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge.