Saga

in the early morning on Thursday, the 10th of July 2003 by Chad

Alan Boyle’s Cosmic Log on MSNBC.com has a quick article on Pirates. Not the Pirates of the Carribean movie, but is covering mostly the Queen Anne’s Revenge.

Strangely enough, even today it’s hard to separate fact from fiction in the story of Blackbeard, a.k.a. Edward Teach … or is that Thatch, or Tache, or Tatch? Researchers still aren’t completely sure whether they’ve found his sunken flagship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge. But seven years after Shipwreck 31CR314 was found in North Carolina’s Beaufort Inlet, they’re finding out more facts about the age when Blackbeard and other swashbucklers were in their heyday.
So far, there’s no smoking gun in the search for a firm link to Blackbeard. But the location of the wreck, the size and variety of weapons found aboard (including the telltale presence of 24-pounder cannonballs) strengthen the researchers’ view that they have indeed found the Queen Anne’s Revenge, which was lost in 1718.

Best part is they have a link on the page that I had lost to the Weekly Piracy Report which is a log of present day piracy activities.