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

Pin for Q&A .)

[@PeterPan54167]

Hey , I clicked the link to Beaufort, and it’s giving me Beaufort South Carolina . QAR ran aground in Beaufort North Carolina near Morehead City. not South Carolina . It’s a common mistaken but people here in North Carolina take pride in Black Beard and the QAR .

[@GoldandGunpowder]

​@@PeterPan54167 this link? www.qaronline.org/conservation/artifacts

[@PeterPan54167]

@@GoldandGunpowder No the link on the video that gives the location as “ Beaufort “. The link you just gave me was right and I believe it’s a link to the North Carolina Maritime Museum ( I have visited their many times ).

[@GoldandGunpowder]

@@PeterPan54167 Aha I didn't notice that, I'll change it

[@PeterPan54167]

@@GoldandGunpowder Cool . Just finished watching the video . This is a very badass You Tube channel .

[@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.

[@yakamarezlife]

You've got that right....even now the Bahamas take lives and ships....

[@user-sh3yy7og1i]

@@yakamarezlifeit was near Beaufort inlet North Carolina they found the wreck

[@funnelvortex7722]

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.

[@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.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

could be!

[@tenhovergonha8739]

I am doing a game about pirates, and I really struggle to find good material about old ship engineering and phisics, how many timbers, the usual draft, details in shape.. Could someone help me find some good references about it?

[@edwardteach342]

@@tenhovergonha8739 what’s the game name?

[@tenhovergonha8739]

@@edwardteach342 I don't have a name yet

[@walmartian422]

On wikipedia it says that the ship was built in england then got captured by french privateers which in turn got captured by blackbeard.

[@nathanhorst8886]

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

[@GoldandGunpowder]

not enough pirates in school sadly!

[@nathanhorst8886]

@@GoldandGunpowder LOL, Im in U.S. so sadly there are more. LMAO Thnx I love your chanel, keep it up.

[@clevermcgenericname891]

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.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

pirate history is full of poetry like this

[@brookingsbeachcomber]

well said Clever

[@dnte666]

I love that alot of the scariest pirate ships were slaver ships. Karma served on the same blade it was dealt

[@Stylezshittedonem]

There’s nothing glorifying about slave ships

[@alexanderpena5363]

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...

[@leslielutz1874]

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

[@CherokeeFlutist59]

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

[@jeffreyrobinson3555]

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

[@GoldandGunpowder]

very likely

[@michaelleblanc7283]

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. "

[@jasondohrman7098]

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.

[@alaeddinejabrane6862]

Im in love with this channel

[@GoldandGunpowder]

thank you

[@grishnackh194]

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

[@kalavi-knightlygaming]

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

[@GoldandGunpowder]

Its a story worthy to be told

[@spirospagiatis4731]

Next video idea : What kind of pets pirates had ?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

This will come in the future .)

[@thedictationofallah]

monke and birb

[@brookingsbeachcomber]

i love that boat, classic pirate vessel through and through

[@GoldandGunpowder]

she's our queen alright

[@brookingsbeachcomber]

Pimp it out with cannons LOL!!!

[@jelkel25]

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.

[@fixthisdog]

Thank u for making this channel

[@GoldandGunpowder]

thank you for watching

[@TheRiverPirate13]

I really enjoyed the video of this historic ship!

[@GoldandGunpowder]

Thank you Captain

[@pinngg6907]

8:40 That thing make me laugh so hard XD

[@GoldandGunpowder]

the divers are still trying to get him out

[@baylusbrooks]

Excellent research and analysis!

[@GoldandGunpowder]

🤠

[@M29WeaselDriver]

Good video!

[@GoldandGunpowder]

thank you

[@driftless1870]

Great adventure!

[@radraider8852]

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.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

Sadly I have no data for it. QAR was of a similar build as the Whydah so she probably had a similar max speed at around 11-12 knots

[@kilted_scottish_laddie864]

@@GoldandGunpowder surely she would have been slowed down by the guns that Blackbeard had installed ? Would seem she would be slowed down by all the metal ?

[@tenhovergonha8739]

@@kilted_scottish_laddie864 maybe he could compensate taking out other weight...

[@kilted_scottish_laddie864]

@@tenhovergonha8739 like what? extra cannons means more ammo, more cannons means more men to man those cannons, more men means extra food, there isn’t enough other things that he could “throw” out that would be able make her any faster

[@tenhovergonha8739]

@@kilted_scottish_laddie864 you are completely right.

[@yakamarezlife]

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

[@Ravishrex1]

Another great one I some how missed . Beers for you lad

[@GoldandGunpowder]

glad you enjoyed it sir

[@therebornguardian8944]

Sir thought you where dead actually this is an opportunity I've always wondered what do you think of john Paul jones

[@recoveringlibertarian5982]

Cool

[@volksanti5781]

Yesss I'm existed for the pirate movies and representations review

[@GoldandGunpowder]

It will be separate videos

[@jamesfrost7465]

If you love pirate movies, have you seen the movie, 'Pirates of the great salt lakes?'

[@volksanti5781]

@@jamesfrost7465 I haven't! Imma look it up

[@jamesfrost7465]

@@volksanti5781 Hoy mate, that movie is hilarious. Here's two more ya have to see. These are rated R, the first one is, 'Pirates.' The second one is, 'Pirates II Stagnetti's Revenge.' Both of these are hilarious. Also these two star Jesse Jane! (Damn beautiful ex porn stars.) These movies are a must have in any Pirate movie collection. Enjoy, your going to laugh.

[@raylast3873]

Wait, did you say Blackbeard never even killed anyone? That‘s gonna blow some minds I think.

[@whatareyoudoingstepcomment4029]

8:40 hello everyone i'm under water there so much raining woooahhhh

[@GoldandGunpowder]

he's stuck in the queen anne and we have to get him out!

[@thedictationofallah]

wth

[@pinngg6907]

Help me i'm underwater XD

[@rachdarastrix5251]

Ah Blockading. A war tactic that I am use to hearing tales of having worked against the enemy.

[@jamesfrost7465]

They found the ship on the 21st of November? Wasn't Blackbeard killed on the 22nd of November 1718? Just wondering.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

it would be quite the coincidence

[@arthelliasgaming]

I read somewhere that the QAR was built in france, near the port of Nante, I've also heard that she was built in England but the dutch capture theory I find extremely interesting. I do have one question, what did dutch frigates of that era look like? In what ways were they different to French or English frigates of that time period?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

Dutch ships had a wider beam and reduced draft, which was similar to French vessels, hence why some said the QAR had a dutch look

[@TheBestComrade]

Very cool until I noticed something..... That underwater meme? I found when I saw the queen anne's wreck.

[@brittnaycattaneo6015]

Lol I just got random chill bumps on my left leg

[@D-Fens]

Where did you get the smiling portrait art of Blackbeard from?

[@hannesniemand]

make longer vids :)

[@GoldandGunpowder]

ive started to

[@beau4129]

👍🏼🏴‍☠️🦈

[@joetorrance4993]

We did a thing on pirates in my primary school our teacher said blackbeard was a bad man and was so greedy he sunk his boat in order to get money for himself I'm in Yr 11 now and been obsessed with pirate's and the 16th to 17th century most of my life I wish I proved her wrong but I was dumb and thought ohhhhh that must be true if the teacher is saying it

[@GoldandGunpowder]

schools usually use outdated books

[@stargirl3455]

so that's what happened to her.. honestly, i feel bad for her, not gonna lie. she was a beast man

[@DarkMysteryBoyOfficial]

I am working on building the queen anne's revenge in my minecraft world

[@aerystargaryenii2565]

So back beard wrecked his most prized ship in a rookie move. Wow

[@GoldandGunpowder]

yeah very unfortunate

[@mauricesteel4995]

i can only imagine is frustration, you just got your new muscle car and the first thing you do is to run it into a lampost.

[@kaynhuros2050]

Now i feel sad about the queen anne's revenge, imagine if it didnt ran aground and battles many ships, but it just ran aground and sank. :,(

[@mgn5667]

the French Connection:::...

[@GoldandGunpowder]

always there

[@yourdadsotherfamily3530]

4:20 lmao sad moment but can’t help but lol at the realism of the actual moment some of these poor poor souls realized :/ that they weren’t saved... only being parted like war concessions after the battle lmao sad but makes me lol at the graphic thinking they are just like ‘b r u h thought we were getting saved this is bullshit’ xD

[@GoldandGunpowder]

yeah :(

[@user-vh1tn1yt2p]

Do you know about "Naval action"?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

IIRC it's a game that's about it

[@AmbroseBoaBowie]

So that’s what happens to the ship

[@rudolfsteyr5228]

Random question why where their Swedish guns onboard?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

sweden was a leading mineral and weapons exporter

[@rudolfsteyr5228]

@@GoldandGunpowder one more question with the random size bores would not finding shells for them be difficult? Gustav ii vasa thought so and made the ship Vasa...with 24 pounder cannons standard.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

a bunch of colonial paramilitaries struggle more at equipping themselves than a national government. most guns were of the same bore, but u could also load them with ammunition like burrel, which is just a bunch of junk

[@TheDweller-]

8:51

[@user-qk5uw5lj5w]

The people in that area new where the queen annes revenge was so its bullshit it was "discovered" i have a friend who owns a house at the mouth of the pamlico river that can see where its at from his house

[@josh05683]

Are we just not gonna acknowledge the syringe that pumped the peen with mercury?

[@maxp1195]

Boopboopbeep

[@GoldandGunpowder]

a+9zwt9,i,

[@captaincalico1135]

So did he actually sell/ trade slaves at all ? I only ask as I wanted to get a tattoo of his flag or his picture but not if he is associated with slavery

[@GoldandGunpowder]

he did trade slaves yes, he grew up on a plantation aswell, ur profile picture is a fake flag that was attributed to Henry Avery, who began as a slave trader before becoming a mariner. piracy is intrinsic to the history of slavery

[@captaincalico1135]

@@GoldandGunpowder ye I know my picture is made up… I just liked the design … thanks for the information man… good to know.. I did think he was involved and knew about the plantation… I knew he freed a lot of slaves who then became crew… but later turned half of them in for profit

[@brancaleone8895]

nice french pronunciation

[@GoldandGunpowder]

haha thanks

[@spider8213]

Blackbeard or William teach was English not Jamaican

[@GoldandGunpowder]

You should watch my video on Blackbeard himself which goes into his most probable origins.

[@richardmcgonigle1160]

Edward Teach.

[@just_your_localguard9612]

Didnt black beard cut dudes finger off? I have hard time believing black beard didnt harm anyone, same dude who took like 5 men with him while being shot and stab multiple times

[@GoldandGunpowder]

I have read multiple books about Blackbeard and I have not found any historian which has studied period records about Blackbeard and discovered any reliable accounts of him doing anything like that. What are your sources?

[@seanknecht4075]

Teach was a smart man he would not have Rick and heating for the nine what you did was most likely purposely I would downsize my crew to knowing that I would have to pay the crew the plunder of all the years spent everything he did was purposely yeah there ain't no sailor that age would risk ships sandbars and shallows

[@j.s.connolly8579]

I just SUPER LOVE Your channel and your narrations of these videos! And I LOVE that you pronounce he "Old Words" CORRECTLY! So many people fail to do that! Like how you pronounce "Muskett" and such. When I do that... people look at me funny and try to correct me. Then I tell them "NO! THAT Is how you are supposed to pronounce that word!" I recently acquired 28mm lead pewter figures of Teach and Lt. Manard made by "Conte Pyrates". They make all kinds of Pyrate and other figures for gaming etc. You can get figures painted or unpainted. I prefer the unpainted as that's one of the joys of the hobby! I can't WAIT to paint them up and create a ship's deck diorama for them depicting "Blackbeard's Last Stand"! Again, THANK YOU For these Wonderfully Historic Videos! I have turned MANY friends on to your channel! :D Joe Jefferson Wisconsin

[@GoldandGunpowder]

thank you Joe

[@jackjosh1981]

Blackbeard wasn't Jamaican