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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.
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. In 1988, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that 100% of the Whydah rightfully belonged to Clifford [ 1 ] Clifford opened his Whydah Pirate Museum in West ...
The treasure, as well as about 200 other pirate artifacts, were collected in 1984 from the sunken wreck of the Whydah off the coast of Wellfleet and is currently the largest collection of pirate ...
Ship Flag Sunk date Notes Coordinates Alva: 25 July 1892 A luxury yacht that was rammed in fog by the steamer H. F. Dimock off Chatham. Aransas: 7 May 1905 A passenger steamer that collided with the schooner barge Glendower in fog, off Chatham. USS Bancroft United States Navy: July 1945 A Clemson-class destroyer that sank in a collision off ...
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.
A research team in New Jersey has discovered the remains of a steamship that went missing in 1856 off the coast of Massachusetts Remains from 1856 Shipwreck Found Off the Coast of Massachusetts ...
Expedition Whydah : the story of the world's first excavation of a pirate treasure ship and the man who found her (1st ed.). New York, NY: Cliff Street Books. p. 261. ISBN 978-0-06-092971-8. Clifford, Barry; Turchi, Peter (1993). The pirate prince : discovering the priceless treasures of the sunken ship Whydah : an adventure (1993 Hardcover ed ...
The missile-like contraption was found the first week of April at Massachusetts’ Marconi Beach, “and staff worked together to get it off the beach before it was swept away,” Cape Cod ...