HOLGER BENNEWITZ/REUTERS - A one-ton cannon from a ship captained by legendary pirate Blackbeard is hoisted from the water near Beaufort, North Carolina.
Ahoy, mateys. The sea has given up another of Blackbeard’s cannons, nearly 300 years after it landed in the inky depths.
Last week, researchers pulled a 13th cannon from the wreckage of the Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s pirate ship, in the waters off North Carolina.
Whether the cannon contains a cannonball has yet to be determined. Four of the previous 12 cannons were still loaded when hauled out of the Atlantic.
“It’s got a bunch of things stuck on the outside, so it will be interesting to see what it is,” said Sarah Watkins-Kinney, the director of the Queen Anne’s Revenge conservation lab.
The Queen Anne’s Revenge started its life as La Concorde, a French slave ship that Blackbeard and his band captured and made the flagship of their small fleet in 1717. The ship sank in 1718.
Blackbeard did not go down with his ship, but he was killed six months later in a bloody battle on Ocracoke Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
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