A 23rd cannon has been recovered from the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge.
The trip was the latest in 17 years of recovery efforts at the Queen Anne’s Revenge shipwreck site. The flagship of the infamous pirate Blackbeard sank off the coast of Beaufort after running aground nearly 300 years ago.
On Friday, the QAR team raised a 5-foot cannon weighing about 600 pounds after freeing it from a concretion of artifacts about 25 feet wide and 30 feet long. Attached to its barrel were several cannonballs.
Story: Jannette Pipping, JDNews | Photo: JDNews
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