The Compendium
Ships
Sloops, brigantines, and stolen ships-of-war. The vessels that prowled the trade winds, careened in hidden coves, and ended on the bottom of the sea.
Ship
Queen Anne's Revenge
Blackbeard's flagship
A French slave ship captured off Saint Vincent, refitted with forty guns, and run aground in Beaufort Inlet a year later — likely on purpose.
1710 – 1718
Ship
Whydah Gally
Black Sam Bellamy's prize
A slaver captured in February 1717 and lost to a storm off Cape Cod two months later. In 1984 she became the first fully authenticated pirate shipwreck ever recovered.
1715 – 26 April 1717