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.
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.
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.
Royal Fortune
Black Bart's flagship
The name Bartholomew Roberts gave to a succession of flagships, the last a captured forty-gun warship that carried the most successful pirate of the age until a Royal Navy broadside ended them both off Cape Lopez.
Adventure
Blackbeard's last sloop
The small, shallow-draft sloop Edward Teach kept after grounding the Queen Anne's Revenge — and the deck on which he made his final stand at Ocracoke Inlet.