April 4, 2009: Blackbeard's Booty

Don't bother calling, it's not that kind of booty.
Blackbeard, you know Edward Thatch/Teach, around 1700, pirate, Arrrrrr?
Well it's not really booty because that's treasure, this is more like Blackbeard's stuff. :haha:

A brass navigational instrument known as a chart divider is among artifacts recently recovered from a shipwreck thought to be the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the infamous 18th-century pirate Blackbeard, archaeologists said in March 2009.

Underwater archaeologists from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources have been excavating the wreck—which lies 22 feet (7 meters) underwater a few miles off Beaufort, North Carolina—since 1997.

The stuff's in pretty good shape for bring on the ocean floor for 300 years.
The corrosion on the piece of silver is easily removed.
All that gold would fit in a thimble, and since it was found mixed in with some lead, scientists speculate someone hid it in the ammo locker.

Link

Apothecary weight - that's like, for his cocaine, right?

Kewl stuff, bruce my man.

Hey, that's a radiographic image (x-ray) of that sword guard.

don't be such a tech-geek, Flint. Ya geek weirdo.

Its a radiographic profile view. The pic above it is a top down (or bottom up) view.

geeks galore.

Or sneaky pirates and ninjas posing as geeks. :unsure:

@ the geek bashers: Leave them geeks alone.

@ the geeks: Don't touch me, I don't want to get any geek-stink on me.:headshake

Wow, just 22 feet below the surface? That's really shallow!

Clodfobble;552835 wrote:

Wow, just 22 feet below the surface? That's really shallow!

By Lucifer's Beard! It IS!

I think that's 22 feet of water then the ship is buried in the mud and sand, but it's a lot easier than in deeper water where they find most of them. They've been working on it for a dozen years so it can't be too intact.

What was Blackbeard doing in North Carolina?

ETA: Okay I see now that he operated in that area; for some reason I didn't imagine pirates up there.

The OBX were popular with pirates - dangerous to navigate and no people around.

Today it's a popular tourist destination. ;)

edit: Oh, here's a great link...

After he blockaded Charleston, SC, he was pardoned by the Governor of NC, but the Governor of VA had him killed anyway.

xoxoxoBruce;552858 wrote:

After he blockaded Charleston, SC, he was pardoned by the Governor of NC, but the Governor of VA had him killed anyway.

Some things never change.