Queen Anne's Revenge
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Queen Anne's Revenge was an early-18th-century ship, most famously used as a flagship by Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard. The date and place of the ship's construction are uncertain, and ther
Model of the Queen Anne's Revenge in the North Carolina Museum of History
Frigate
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In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied. In the 17th to early 18th centuries the term "frigate" was loosely given to any full-rigged ship built for sp
Queen Anne's Revenge
…shipwrights, based on differences in fastening patterns in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. After several years of French service, both as a naval frigate and as a merchant vessel – much of that time as a slave ship – she was captured by Blackbeard in 1717. Blackbeard used the ship for less than a year…
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