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Building Blackbeard's Ship "Adventure"

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Edward Jones - Rod Cantrell
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Blackbeard's Lodge
Ocracoke, NC

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Historic Bath Foundation

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Washington, NC

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Hampton Inn
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Joyner Library
East Carolina University

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Washington, NC

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Washington, NC

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Greenville, NC

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Privateer Lynx

View an excellent video reflecting the goals and concepts of the Adventure project as seen through the Privateer Lynx.

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The War of 1812 privateer Lynx comes to life in "America’s Privateer"

America's Privateer Book“America’s Privateer: LYNX and the War of 1812” tells the story of a ship with two lives that sailed in two different centuries. The idea for the first privateer Lynx came from the mind of Thomas Kemp, a shipwright from Fells Point, Maryland. Kemp’s Lynx was launched in 1812 and soon after was commissioned by President James Madison to fight alongside the American Navy in the War of 1812. Madison’s “Letter of Marque” gave the privateer a sudden legitimacy and patriotic purpose.

By the time of the War of 1812, the American Navy, having only a handful of ships in its flotilla, relied on privateers to protect the coast and to engage the British on the high seas. Manned by volunteer sailors, these privateers stood against the mightiest navy in the world—and made history. What distinguished Lynx and other Baltimore clippers from ships of that era was their sleek design and speed. These vessels awed all who came in contact with them.
Read more: The War of 1812 privateer Lynx comes to life in "America’s Privateer"
 
Blackbeard's True 'Treasure'

©2011 Kevin P. Duffus

Black PirateThe whereabouts of the mythical treasure of the notorious Blackbeard has bewitched folks ever since the smoke cleared following the Battle of Ocracoke 293 years ago. Minutes after Blackbeard's death, Royal Navy sailors began a search for the bearded pirate captain's ill-gotten gains. They were soon disappointed. They found no treasure chests of gold, silver or jewels. And despite many enticing claims, no one else has found Blackbeard's lost treasure since that historic November day on North Carolina's Outer Banks.

However, there was a treasure, and it likely survives to this day in Eastern North Carolina.

North Carolina's Department of Cultural Resources proudly boasts - and rightly so - that it has retrieved over the past 15 years more than 250,000 artifacts from the Queen Anne's Revenge, including the anchor recently brought to the surface. Few experts, however, have considered the cargo of flesh and blood transported by the famous ship.

This is not the pirate history you will see on the silver screen, find on roadside historic markers, read on museum walls or hear at our state's historic sites. But it is our history.

In November 1717, north of Barbados, Blackbeard positioned his flotilla in the path of slave-trading ships arriving from West Africa, where he captured the French slaver La Concorde, renaming her the Queen Anne's Revenge. Historians have surmised that he wanted to capture a big slave ship in order to mount up to 40 guns aboard, making her as powerfully armed as any Royal Navy warship patrolling the West Indies.

I believe it was to serve a different purpose.
Read more: Blackbeard's True 'Treasure'
 
Edward Salter

Salter's Capture by Black BeardNoted historical researcher and BAA board member Kevin Duffus believes that Edward Salter, a barrel-maker who died in 1735, was a cooper forced into piracy after Blackbeard captured him on a ship near Puerto Rico in 1717. Salter was not onboard the Adventure at the battle of Ocracoke, but was later captured at Bath. No official record of his execution has ever been found so Kevin believes he escaped the noose and returned to settle in Bath. Salter went on to become a warden of St. Thomas Parish in Bath and an assemblyman representing Beaufort County in 1731.

Read more about Edward Salter in the article "The Life, Death and Lasting Legacy of Edward Salter".
 
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