Divers find Blackbeard's cannons
Divers off the coast of North Carolina have recovered two cannons used by the infamous pirate Blackbeard on a slave ship he commandeered in the 18th century. The wreck of the Queen Anne’s Revenge was first discovered in 1996, but divers are only now removing the largest artifacts from its watery grave. Blackbeard captured the French ship in 1717, and sailed it up and down the Eastern Seaboard and around the West Indies. He ran it aground the following year after plundering Charleston, S.C. Along with the 11-foot cannons, divers also raised a 3,000-pound anchor from the deep.
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