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Posted: April 16th, 2009
Blackbeard's Lost Ship
To view this site, you need to have Flash Player 9 Loading chapter info... Edward Teach, alias Blackbeard, was the most notorious pirate of his day. At the height of his rein, he commanded a fleet of four ships and a crew of 400 men. They were ruthless seafaring raiders who terrorizing vessels in American waters. In 1718, Blackbeard even blockaded the city of Charleston, crippling its economy. Eventually he was caught and beheaded by a posse from the Royal Navy. Now, 300 years later, a marine archaeology team believe they have found his sunken flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, off the North Carolina coast. The remains of the shipwreck are helping solve the most enduring mystery surrounding the infamous pirate captain – did he accidentally run his ship aground, or was it a deliberate plot to betray his crew and cheat them out of their share of the plunder? THIRTEEN’s Secrets of the Dead: Blackbeard’s Lost Ship premieres nationally, Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). |
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I am really excited to see this!!! I have a major passion for history and have learned that I am related to the infamous pirate. He was great great great great great great great great great great… ect. ect Uncle to me.
Great show only 1 problem, that is NOT his flag. All pirates fly different flags and Blackbeards was not the Jolly Roger. Here is a link to his real flag for those interested. http://www.sunrealtync.com/744px-Pirate_Flag_of_Blackbeard.png
What happened to blackbeard’s abandoned crew ?
Intereted in the book featured in the documentary? Check out this sweet reproduction: A General History of the Pyrates.
I do not have a TV but would like to watch this show. Will it be available to watch online at any time in the future? I see that one of the other shows is available and wonder if your policy is to delay online availability until the following season or something of that nature.
For the most recent and accurate information on Blackbeard visit the official Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project page at; http://www.qaronline.org.
This was a great show! Loved the coast guard part…okay well mainly because it was my brother who was interviewed! anyway…glad that the coast guard got some recognition!
i think you guys should put more stuff for kid activity on your website.
i work at a library and i think our kidds would love to do things like a mini ship discovery.
Who was Blackbeard?