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Queen Anne's Revenge was an early-18th-century ship, most famously used as a flagship by Edward Teach, better known by his nickname Blackbeard.The date and place of the ship's construction are uncertain, [3] and there is no record of its actions prior to 1710 when it was operating as a French privateer as La Concorde.
Bostock reported that Pinkentham's 8-gun sloop had been in the area of St. Thomas, where Blackbeard hoped to intercept him. [1] Grinnaway's sloop had been in the area using black slaves to dive the same Spanish wrecks. Together they searched the wrecks again, then sailed to Bimini to dive additional wrecks with no success. Frustrated, Grinnaway ...
Israel Hands, also known as Basilica Hands [1], was an 18th-century pirate best known for being second in command to Edward Teach (c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard. His name serves as the basis for the name of the villainous sidekick in Robert Louis Stevenson 's 1883 novel Treasure Island .
The name of Blackbeard has been attached to many local attractions, such as Charleston's Blackbeard's Cove. [130] His name and persona have also featured heavily in literature. He is the main subject of Matilda Douglas's fictional 1835 work Blackbeard: A page from the colonial history of Philadelphia. [131]
September 29 – "Gentleman Pirate" Stede Bonnet, who has traded plantation life for a pirate ship, transfers command of his sloop, the Revenge, to Blackbeard. November 28 – Blackbeard captures the French slave ship La Concorde near Martinique , equips her with 40 guns, and renames her the Queen Anne's Revenge .
March 28 – One of Blackbeard's lieutenants, captain Richard and his sloop Revenge, attack the 400-ton Protestant Caesar in the Bay of Honduras. March–April – Charles Vane and 12 pirates capture a Jamaica sloop in the Bahamas, retaining her for his own use. April – Vane captures the sloop Lark in the Bahamas and transfers his crew to her ...
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Blackbeard surprisingly decides to accept the pardon from Governor Eden. For a while he settles down in North Carolina and marries Mary Ormond , a young lady from a wealthy local family. However, he soon tires of life on land, while his crew becomes unruly due to his absence and boredom, whereupon they return to sea and piracy.