Blackbeard

Did you know that the pirate Blackbeard's first ship, that he captured and ran aground about a year after he stole it, was found in 1996 right outside of Beaufort North Carolina? That put the ship's relic (#2) about 2 miles from our Beaufort anchorage (#1).  Pretty cool.

The maritime museum in Beaufort has some of the artifacts and tells the story of that shipwrecked ship named Queen Anne's Revenge(QAR).

Pirate swords:

The cannons were both big and small.

The QAR replica in amazing detail:

They cut off his head after capturing Blackbeard in the battle of Ocracoke Inlet and hung it from his captors ship's bowsprit for all to see.  That was 1718.

And let us not forget the women pirates of the day!

Another 500 plus shipwrecks off the Virginia/North Carolina Outer Banks:

Wow!