History Of Bath: Queen Anne's Revenge

Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, ran aground about one mile offshore of the small port town of Beaufort, North Carolina.

Efforts to pull the ship free failed, and she eventually listed and settled into the shoaling sands. For 278 years, the remains of the QAR lay covered by the sands of the Atlantic. In 1996, after hurricanes and nor'easters scoured the sands away, divers from Intersal, Inc., searching for other shipwrecks around the inlet found the wreck site. Since then, the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, in a coordinated and long-term research project, has conducted underwater archaeological investigations at the site of Blackbeard's Flagship.

Many of the remains removed from the ship were on display at Bath for the towns Tri-Centennial in 2005-06 and are on permanent display at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort.