[Stonewall Jackson]

This is one of the few wreckage sites of a confirmed slave ship that has been discovered.

One of the most famous is the Whydah Gally, a 300-ton slave galleon that was captured by the pirate Black Sam Bellamy and converted into his flagship. The vessel ran aground and sank in a storm off Cape Cod in 1717, with the loss of most of its crew (there are legends that Black Sam survived the sinking, but these have never been confirmed).

In 1984, underwater explorer Barry Clifford rediscovered the wreck by utilizing a map drawn by the Massachussets Bay Colony government of the wrecksite. Many of the thousands of artifacts recovered from the site are on display at the Expedition Whydah Sea-Lab & Learning Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

To date,the Whydah is the only golden-age pirate ship to be recovered in modern times.

[RushLake]

"...(there are legends that Black Sam survived the sinking, but these have never been confirmed).

He changed his name to Edward Kennedy. He kept getting drawn back to the sea with the urge to drink rum (yo ho ho), and drown people.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SJ!