Five Canons Recovered From Blackbeard's Queen Ann's Revenge

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Smilax worked with personnel from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources to recover five cannons and multiple barrel hoops from the Queen Anne's Revenge in Beaufort Inlet, N.C., Monday.

The Queen Anne's Revenge was the ship of the pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, for more than a year before the ship ran aground on the shoals in the inlet.

The crew of the Smilax, a 100-foot inland construction tender, worked with NCDCR divers to lift the approximately one-ton cannons aboard the Smilax using a combination of flotation bags and the ship's crane.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Smilax worked with the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources to retrieve five canon's from the pirate ship Queen Anne's Revenge, Oct. 28. Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard the pirate, captained the Queen Anne's Revenge for more than a year before the ship ran aground and sank in Beaufort Inlet, N.C.