Blackbeard 300 Pirate Portal
North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort
Learn more about Blackbeard's flagship and life in a newly renovated exhibit.
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Historic Bath
Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard — the most notorious pirate of them all — once made the area near Bath his home.
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Queen Anne's Revenge Conservation Lab
The lab in Greenville, North Carolina offers behind-the-scenes tours of the exciting work being done at the facility.
Learn moreThe Queen Anne's Revenge's origins, much like its Captain's, Blackbeard, stretch into an obscurity beyond the historical record.
We do know that the story of Blackbeard's flagship began long before it fell into the famed pirate's clutches. In fact, Blackbeard's captaincy of the QAR likely constituted only a small portion of the vessel's seafaring years. Before Blackbeard, it belonged to a wealthy French merchant, trafficking human cargo across the Atlantic on the notorious "Middle Passage." After 1718, it belonged, for a time, to the ocean alone.
Since its discovery near the Beaufort inlet in 1996, the remains of the vessel have become the property of the people of North Carolina, under the stewardship of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
