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Raising Blackbeard's "Queen Anne's Revenge"

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« Reply #30 on: March 22, 2009, 08:43:32 pm »









                      JUSTIFICATION FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE






Although the identity of Beaufort Inlet shipwreck 31CR314 cannot yet be positively established, archaeologists are fairly confident that the site represents the remains of Blackbeard's flagship Queen Anne's Revenge. Mounting circumstantial evidence strongly suggests that the site is in the correct location, and the vessel is the appropriate size and was carrying the right arms and equipment. The artifact assemblage dates the wreck to the proper time period, artifacts compare well with a contemporary pirate vessel, and historical records lack any other candidate vessel lost in the area that has not already been disqualified.

By comparing historical and modern charts, researchers have determined that the Beaufort Inlet shipwreck is located in the vicinity of the offshore bar near the entrance to the early-eighteenth-century channel. The site location corresponds favorably to historical accounts of the loss of Queen Anne's Revenge. During questioning in Charleston, David Harriot, who sailed with Blackbeard, deposed that "the said Thatch's ship Queen Anne's Revenge run a-ground off of the Bar of Topsail Inlet." Harriot's account is corroborated by Royal Navy captain Ellis Brand of HMS Lyme, who wrote:

On the 10 June or thereabouts a large pyrate Ship of forty Guns with three Sloops in her company came upon the coast of North carolina ware they endeavour'd To goe in to a harbour, call'd Topsail Inlett, the Ship Stuck upon the bar att the entrance of the harbour and is lost.
The small portion of the shipwreck's hull structure examined in 1998 provides additional evidence. Frame size and spacing in relation to plank size indicates that the original vessel was not heavily built, as would be expected of naval construction during that period. This conflicts with the vessel's heavily armed profile evidenced by the presence of at least eighteen carriage-mounted cannons and accompanying ordnance. A tempting conclusion is that the shipwreck represents a merchantman that was overarmed, as was the case with Concorde, reportedly overequipped with guns by Blackbeard after its capture. Unfortunately, historical records have not yet provided a clear understanding of the size, classification, or country of origin for Concorde. It is, however, relatively certain that the ship captured by Blackbeard was a 200- to 300-ton vessel. The three anchors closely associated with the shipwreck are the size rated for a ship ranging from 250 to 350 tons. The size of the deadeyes, calculated from the iron strops found on the site, also fit a vessel of that size.

Based on the date that appears on the bell (Figure 13), researchers have narrowed their search for shipwrecks in the Cape Lookout area to a one-hundred-year period beginning in 1709. The majority of artifacts recovered from the Beaufort Inlet shipwreck date the site to the first quarter of the eighteenth century. A bronze bell dated 1709, ceramics and glassware that fit within dated typologies, pewterware produced by craftsmen known to have worked in London from the 1690s to the 1730s, a blunderbuss barrel that was proofed between 1672 and 1702, and surveying instruments that are illustrated in a contemporary treatise published in 1723, all effectively date the site to the appropriate period.
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