Blackbeard's anchor recovered off NC coast

AP ^ | May 27, 2011 | MARTHA WAGGONER

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. – An anchor from what's believed to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's flagship has been raised from the ocean floor off the North Carolina coast.

Archaeologists believe the anchor recovered Friday is from the Queen Anne's Revenge, which sank in 1718. That was five months before Blackbeard was killed in a battle.

The artifact is the third-largest item at the shipwreck, outsized only by two other anchors.

Researchers retrieved the anchor from the shipwreck about 20 feet under water...

The anchor is about 11 feet long.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

[MAexile]

Arrrr.

[SeekAndFind]

The dreaded EDWARD TEACH (A.K.A BLACKBEARD)

[Cheetahcat]

Blackbeard, Hollywood writers could not come up with a better story than his Real life!

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

True!

[Yardstick]

[television is just wrong]

arrrrrsome.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Blackbeard (from a 1736 engraving)

Teach's flag depicted a skeleton spearing a heart,
while toasting the devil.
It was designed to intimidate enemies.

[Tanniker Smith]

Overcompensating, he was. Yarr.

[bajabaja]

OK, I got that. It was funny.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Do you think he plans it all out ahead of time, or just makes it up as he goes along?

[AGreatPer]

Will probably take it over to Coastal Carolina U where they have restored many of the canons.

[RegulatorCountry]

Blackbeard, Edward Teach, left descendants down there. If it could be said he actually resided anywhere, that would be Bath, but he had a longterm dalliance up the Tar River at a plantation near modern day Grimesland, where his sister is also reputed to have lived. He often climbed a large cypress tree on the banks of the Tar by Grimesland to survey the Pamlico Sound for ships to plunder.

Local lore on Ocracoke Island on the Outer Banks says that going out to Teaches’ Hole, where he was beheaded and killed, on a night with a full moon and slappig the water three times with an oar will lead to the headless ghost of Blackbeard swimming around your boat, lol.

[rawhide]

Just curious how they verfied this is Blackbeard’s ship, and not just some other rumrunner?

[PapaNew]

Who was the pirate that was buried up to his neck in sand and left to drown when the tide came in, and what was the movie (”Har, Minyerd”) that depicted this story and pirate?

[75thOVI]

Did some reading on Ned Teach a couple of years back, and what I learned was rather suprising. A researcher had studied up on Blackbeard's shipping attacks, and found that total casualties inflicted by this scourge of the seas was 0. With the exception, of course of his final battle with the RN, Teach never killed anyone who wasn't actively trying to kill him. He simply understood that good PR was worth an entire broadside. Merchant crews were indeed scared spitless of him, but it was clearly understood that a quick surrender was quite survivable, whilst fighting him was not to be thought of. Given the right circumstances an owner operator might even keep his ship, (albeit riding a bit higher). A remarkable individual indeed.

[75thOVI]

Did some reading on Ned Teach a couple of years back, and what I learned was rather suprising. A researcher had studied up on Blackbeard's shipping attacks, and found that total casualties inflicted by this scourge of the seas was 0. With the exception, of course of his final battle with the RN, Teach never killed anyone who wasn't actively trying to kill him. He simply understood that good PR was worth an entire broadside. Merchant crews were indeed scared spitless of him, but it was clearly understood that a quick surrender was quite survivable, whilst fighting him was not to be thought of. Given the right circumstances an owner operator might even keep his ship, (albeit riding a bit higher). A remarkable individual indeed.

[hinckley buzzard]

Amazing, isn't it, how we all seem to be fascinated by the mythic "Pirate" character? What is it about this figure, who in reality was no more than a sea-going thug?