Anchor 1, Queen Anne's Revenge

Anchor 1, Queen Anne's Revenge

Photograph of Anchor No. 1, recovered by archaeologists from the 18th century pirate ship Queen Ann'es Revenge off the coast of North Carolina. The Queen Anne's Revenge (also called the QAR) was the sailing ship of the pirate Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard. The ship had at least three anchors. This one, weighing 1,965 pounds, was recovered from the ship's wreckage, submerged off the coast of North Carolina, on May 27, 2011.

This image comes from the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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[Anchor from Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck]. Image. From the Queen Anne's Revenge Project Blog, September 1, 2017. North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.https://www.qaronline.org/blog/2017-09-01/artifact-month-anchor (Accessed November 1, 2017)