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It's official: Ship found off N.C. coast was Blackbeard's

Last updated Monday, June 13, 2011 - 2:51pm

RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina has quietly decided that the cannon-laden shipwreck just off Fort Macon is absolutely that of Blackbeard the pirate's flagship, the "Queen Anne's Revenge," ending 15 years of official uncertainty.

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Archaeologists plan to raise anchor from Blackbeard's flagship

Jay Price, Raleigh News and Observer

Last updated Friday, May 27, 2011 - 9:55am

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Archaeologists plan to raise one of Blackbeard's anchors one last time Friday, yanking one huge pirate artifact from the sea floor in hopes of getting at some of the tiniest.

By chance, the operation to lift the largest artifact yet recovered from the wreck of the notorious pirate's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, comes just in time to draw attention to a new exhibit about the ship scheduled to open in two weeks at the nearby state maritime museum in Beaufort.

And in a kind of springtime buccaneer trifecta, Blackbeard and his ship appear in the latest installment of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie franchise, which just opened.

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