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Whydah Gally and her treasure of captured pirate gold eluded discovery for over 260 years until 1984, when the wreck was found off the coast of Cape Cod, buried under 10–50 ft (3–15 m) of sand, in depths ranging from 16–30 ft (5–9 m) deep, spread for four miles, parallel to the Cape's easternmost coast.
Barry Clifford (born May 30, 1945) is an American underwater archaeological explorer.. Around 1982, Clifford began discovering the remains of the Whydah Gally, [1] a former slave ship captured by pirate Samuel Bellamy which sunk in 1717, during the Golden Age of Piracy.
Samuel Bellamy, Wreck of the Whydah, from the Pirates of the Spanish Main series (N19) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes MET DP835027 The location of the wrecked Whydah Gally in Cape Cod Just two months after acquiring the Whydah , as she and the Marianne approached Cape Cod, Williams told Bellamy that he wished to visit his family in Rhode Island ...
The most famous vessel he added to his collection was the Whydah Gally. The Whydah became his flagship, a three-masted, 300-ton ship. Onboard was a fortune of gold, silver, and other valuable ...
Passengers included John Wheelock and James Wheelock who were returning from a fundraising tour in Europe for Dartmouth College, they lost all of their papers and the money raised in the wreck. Pendleton United States: 18 February 1952 A tanker that broke in half in a storm, one mile (1.6 km) east of Monomoy Island
It seems plausible that Gosse confused Charles Bellamy with Samuel Bellamy, and later sources simply kept citing Gosse. It is commonly believed that Samuel Bellamy died in the wreck of the Whydah Gally in 1717. Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy was active from 1716 to 1717 and engaged in piracy in the Caribbean and as far north as Cape Cod.
Whydah Gally – a slave ship that was captured by the pirate Captain "Black Sam" Bellamy, and refitted as his flagship. On 26 April, she ran aground off Cape Cod and capsized in a fierce storm. Bellamy and 143 of his crew were lost, as was more than 4.5 short tons (4.1 tonnes) of gold and silver. There were two survivors.
Kinkor was the compiler and editor of the Whydah Sourcebook containing a vast collection of 17th and 18th century archival records concerning the history of the British slave ship Whydah Galley, its capture by the crew of pirate Samuel Bellamy, its demise at Cape Cod, and the court trial and testimonies of the surviving crew.