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North Carolina Team To Pull Up Pirate Ship’s Anchor

By: Jim Brumm
WILMINGTON, NC (REUTERS).- North Carolina archeologists will attempt to retrieve an anchor this week from the wreckage of the notorious pirate ship Queen Anne’s Revenge — just as its resurrected on the big screen in the new movie release of “Pirates of the Caribbean.” Research teams from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington and Cape Fear Community College set sail on Thursday to try and pull the anchor to the surface at a site where archeologists say the ship wrecked nearly 300 years ago. Queen Anne’s Revenge was the legendary ship used by Blackbeard, the infamous English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the east coast of the American colonies. Named after his flowing black beard, he was reported to have worn lit fuses under his hat to frighten his adversaries. “Blackbeard and piracy are important threads in eastern North Carolina’s maritime h