The Queen Anne's Revenge | Legendary Pirate Ships

The Queen Anne's Revenge was Blackbeard's legendary flagship. Once a privateer, once a slave trader, she weighed 250 tons, had a sleek build and strong hull and carried 40 cannon. At the height of Blackbeard's power, she was one of the most powerful men o' war present in the Caribbean.

Sources:
The Republic of Pirates - Colin Woodard
Quest for Blackbeard - Baylus Brooks
Blackbeard: America's Most Fearsome Pirate - Angus Konstam

Queen Anne's Revenge: A system Analysis of Blackbeard's flagship - Kenneth Kircher

0:00 Introduction
0:56 La Concorde
3:18 Queen Anne's Revenge
6:44 Did Blackbeard sink her?
8:23 Recovering the Past

#goldandgunpowder #queenannesrevenge #blackbeard #history #pirates

[Jack-Hands]

The theory that the Revenge was of Dutch origin might explain why she was considered fast. Dutch ships of the time tended to have shallow drafts.

[funnelvortex]

I used to buy into the myth of Blackbeard intentionally wrecking the QAR myself, but given that experienced crews with engines and modern navigation technology manage to accidentally run ships aground all the time in modern day it's very easy to see how easily it could have happened back in the day, especially given that Blackbeard was a tactician and strategist not a navigator, it's very well explainable that he took the QAR into the sandbars as a strategic move but didn't know exactly how to navigate around the sandbars and having the ship on full sail with no reefing or whatever was either a poor call or overconfidence in his skills on his part.

[nathanhorst]

If I had this kind of teaching when I was in school, I'd be a lot further in my learnings.

[Captain_Cinnamon]

I wanna put one thing in here:
The Caribbean is one of the most treacherous waters to sail. It is incredibly difficult once you move away from the main routes. It is absolutely stacked with sharp rocks barely under water level (invisible rocks), shallow zones of barely 2-3 meters deep, wrecks. Take a good look at the sea charts and you will find that Blackbeard was not a bad navigator, it was just difficult.

[clevermcgenericname]

A person of a philosophical nature might find something poetic about a privateer warship being saved from a service as a bearer of human misery and set back to her true purpose of raising hell.

[alexanderpena]

So Nice and informative video!
Some time ago my dear son May he rest in peace and I began the construction of some models... I just realized that "the revenge" of the movie is not very realistic, even so wherever you are my beloved son thanks for inviting this old man to dream once... I still do it...

[leslielutz]

That paper wadding story is a total trip !! What are the freaking odds. So many odds in that story.

[CherokeeFlutist]

Picking a slave ship to alter into one of the most powerful pirate vessels of the time. Smart move imo. Got a big ship with a lot of cannons that is a pretty fast one too.

A very effective vessel

[michaelleblanc]

Who ever you are 'Gold & Gunpowder' I like your style and have been binging on you since I boarded your Pirate ship.
For your demo stats I'm from the Davy Crockett /Treasure Island boomer age & got much of my education from 'Mark Twain' who once said of his youth, " Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. "

[jeffreyrobinson]

I have to think about the size of the ship.
Forty guns are twenty perside. But at about 100 feet long the gun deck would be hard pressed to mount more then ten or eleven guns.
Five on the quarter deck seems high, two on the forecastle. Pretty crowded, and crew hungry.
Often ships of this time didn’t mount guns on the weather deck.
I wonder if half of her forty guns were swivels???
I wonder that man

[jasondohrman]

First, I love the channel. I, being from the outer banks of North Carolina, grew up with a very different story. Ed was married and went home on the main land. His crew, not happy with the time off, decided to take the fleet to pirate without him. He caught up to them as they were on near oakcrakoe inlet. It was unfortunate that the English navy was in that area looking for his flotilla.

[kalavi-knightlygaming]

Now that is a interesting story about Queen Anne's Revenge

[brookingsbeachcomber]

i love that boat, classic pirate vessel through and through

[spirospagiatis]

Next video idea : What kind of pets pirates had ?

[grishnackh]

Hey I really liked your channel, good work you got there! Subbed

[jelkel]

Every time I hear Blackbeard's crew turned Woods Rogers book into wadding I laugh. I bet they did too while they were doing it.

[TheRiverPirate]

I really enjoyed the video of this historic ship!

[yakamarezlife]

If she hasn't sank Blackbeard would have been around long enough I retire maybe had a few more captains

[pinngg]

8:40
That thing make me laugh so hard XD

[radraider]

Are there any records that show how fast was she in knots? I know that the Whydah was around 13 knots, making her one of the fastest fully rigged ships in the West Indies.