. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Blackbeard's Flagship? Searching a Shipwreck for Clues W T Theth By Julie Ann Powers where the ship put into port. According to a recently rediscovered description of Concorde's capture, its officers were robbed of gold dust when Blackbeard's band seized the Caribbean-bound slave vessel in 1717. Concorde was overtaken off the coast of St. Vincent in the eastern Caribbean, as it traveled between Senegal and Martinique. "We haven't found Blackbeard's treasure by any means," Crow says of the shiny b
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Blackbeard's Flagship? Searching a Shipwreck for Clues W T Theth By Julie Ann Powers where the ship put into port. According to a recently rediscovered description of Concorde's capture, its officers were robbed of gold dust when Blackbeard's band seized the Caribbean-bound slave vessel in 1717. Concorde was overtaken off the coast of St. Vincent in the eastern Caribbean, as it traveled between Senegal and Martinique. "We haven't found Blackbeard's treasure by any means," Crow says of the shiny bits. "But it is an important clue to what may have been on this particular ; ' hether a submerged shipwreck near Beaufort Inlet was once a vessel commanded by the infamous pirate Blackbeard is still a secret known only to the sea. But a convincing picture of an 18th- century pirate ship has emerged with the gold dust, broken bottles and cannons brought up from the shell-encrusted mound. And tantalizing historical parallels prompt officials to stop just short of saying for certain the Queen Anne's Revenge has been found. The flagship of Blackbeard's fearsome fleet was last seen sinking in the inlet after running aground in June 1718. Jeffrey Crow, Division of Archives and History director, says divers have yet to find definitive evidence — "a smoking blunderbuss" — to prove the ship's identity. "But we have found plenty of shot to load that blunderbuss," he says. Lead shot is among hundreds of artifacts brought up in 500 hours of diving last fall. It was the second major effort to map the site and recover items since the wreck was discovered Nov. 21,1996, in about 20 feet of water. A few gold flecks, pewter dishes, a syringe, navigational instruments, onion- shaped wine bottles, a clay pipe and barrel hoops are also products of the latest dive. A bronze bell, a brass blunderbuss barrel, cannons and cannon balls, a sounding weight, brok
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