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 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 ).
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.
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?
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.
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.
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...
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
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
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. "
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.
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 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 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
@@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.
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?
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
@@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
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
@@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.
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
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
