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 …
‘This Explorer Shares Shipwrecked Treasures with the World’
Great Big Story and CNN Films Presents: This Explorer Shares Shipwrecked Treasures with the World https://youtu.be/cVXavwWFuuw Barry Clifford is an explorer, an underwater archaeologists and some would even say, a treasure hunter. In 1984, he discovered the first artifacts of what would be a …
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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, …
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