Just before midnight on April 26th, 1717, the pirate flagship Whydah wrecked on the Cape Cod coastline during a powerful nor’easter. At the time of her demise, the Whydah pirates were the most powerful sea rovers anywhere in the world, with a flagship mounting 28 cannons, a flotilla of consort vessels, and a company of […]
‘This Explorer Shares Shipwrecked Treasures with the World’
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Boston Globe – Pirate museum to open on Cape Cod June 25
Boston Globe – Pirate museum to open on Cape Cod June 25 A museum featuring what’s said to be the world’s only authenticated pirate coins, pistols, swords, and other artifacts, pulled from a ship that sank off Wellfleet in 1717, is opening in West Yarmouth this month. The Whydah Pirate Museum, which is being billed […]
