BEAUFORT, N.C.
Blackbeard's ship has surrendered more of its historical treasures.
The Daily News of Jacksonville reports that two cannons were raised from the wreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge off the coast of Carteret County on Thursday.
A dive expedition at the site this month had hoped to bring up eight cannons. But efforts were hampered by bad weather until Thursday.
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Cool Beans I think that is neat I love history, I also like when George Chevalier does his local history about places and people on the Eastern Shore.
ReplyDeleteI wish the media would stop glamorizing thugs like this guy. A convicted thief and murderer, Blackbeard and his kind were no better than the thugs running rampant in our society today. Do the intervening years make the crimes any less heinous? They should leave his weapons to rot on the sea floor.
ReplyDelete1054-Yeah...well they were stealing from those that were enslaving and slaughtering, so how different were "his kind"?
ReplyDeleteTwo wrongs don't make a right.
DeleteBalderdash! Blackbeard (Edward Teach) was never convicted of ANYTHING, much less murder.
ReplyDeleteGovernments routinely granted Letters of Marque allowing private ships to capture and steal from other ships at sea whenever it benefited their goals. Blackbeard didn't do anything others didn't do, he was just better at it and therefore became more famous.
He was a criminal and he got what he had coming to him
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