Cannon Raised From Presumed Pirate’s Ship
Researchers raised another cannon from an underwater site two miles offshore. They hope it will help prove the sunken wreckage was once the flagship of the notorious pirate Blackbeard.
“We knew it the first day, and we still have absolutely no doubt that she’s the Queen Anne’s Revenge,” said Phil Masters, whose Florida-based research firm located the wreckage in 1996. “There is no other ship lost at Beaufort Inlet with anything more than 10 cannon.”
The team has recovered more than 20 cannons from the site; since its discovery, more than 16,000 artifacts have been retrieved from the wreck.
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