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Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach, earned a centuries-spanning reputation as the most dastardly sea-devil of them all. Yet, writes Pat Kinsella, he may have been one of the kindest – or rather, less villainous – pirates of them all
As world trade burgeoned in the age of colonial expansion, valuable cargoes were transported across the world s oceans, providing vast opportunity for piracy on the seas. Who were the most famous pirates, and who were the worst? And were there any female pirates? Here are 14 of history s most despicable pirates, who plundered the seas from the ports of the American colonies to the Indian Ocean…
BONES AHOY!
Pirate skeletons from 300-year-old shipwreck found off Cape Cod in hunt for ‘wealthiest pirate ever’ Black Sam Bellamy
Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter
12 Feb 2021, 12:28
Updated: 12 Feb 2021, 16:03
HUMAN skeletons have been discovered on a 1717 pirate shipwreck just off the coast of Cape Cod in the US.
Archaeologists think they ve found the remains of at least six people on the doomed boat and hope one of them could be the infamous and wealthy pirate Black Sam .
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The skeletal remains were found amongst treasure and sentiments on the sea floorCredit: whydah pirate museum
The bones have fused into large hard masses of minerals after all this time, making them a bit tricky to identity.