November 20, 2009 – 6:02 pm
GREENVILLE – Since the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources (NCDCR)began excavating the shipwreck believed to the Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), Blackbeard’s flagship, more than 250,000 objects have been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, near Beaufort. All recovered artifacts go through the NCDCR QAR conservation lab located at East Carolina University in Greenville. On [...]
November 18, 2009 – 4:44 pm
Editors Note: Please respond if your organization will attend by Thursday, Oct. 19, at 5 p.m., call (919) 807-7389 or email fay.mitchell@ncdcr.gov.
GREENVILLE — Study of artifacts from the shipwreck of the presumed Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s flagship, continues to illuminate details of pirate life. A media review of the latest findings on [...]
November 5, 2009 – 12:26 pm
Editor’s note: Stories on Blackbeard’s November ties are welcome now. This event is for the media only. It will review work on artifact investigation from the presumed Queen Anne’s Revenge shipwreck, Blackbeard’s flagship.
GREENVILLE – November was a big month for the pirate Blackbeard. He captured the vessel La Concorde in November [...]
November 3, 2009 – 3:14 pm
BEAUFORT – Customers will be eating with a purpose on Nov. 13, at the latest of the Maritime Seafood Dinner series to benefit education programs at the N.C. Maritime Museum. Seafood has been an important part of the region’s diet, economy and culture, and the dinner will help the museum and also help consumers [...]
October 20, 2009 – 4:25 pm
BEAUFORT – A 4 ½-foot grapnel (a small four-pronged anchor) resting loosely in the sand will be brought up from the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, Oct. 21, near Beaufort. A team of N.C. Department of Cultural Resources archaeologists and conservators will turn to recovery instead of maintenance and preservation at the site of the [...]
October 16, 2009 – 4:26 pm
BEAUFORT – Sea monsters, shipwreck victims, pirates and other maritime ghouls and goblins will inhabit the darkened exhibit hall at the N.C. Maritime Museum on Friday, Oct. 30, from 5:30-8 p.m.
Be prepared to be scared by the haunted hall tricks and take home a sweet treat.
At the Mad Scientist table, participants will feel inside “mystery [...]
September 22, 2009 – 8:52 am
BEAUFORT – The N.C. Maritime Museum (NCMM) offers carnivorous plants, Fright Night:Haunted Hall & Bonehenge, and curator’s tales of whales and the sea in October and November. Most of the family-friendly programs are free.
14 Wednesday Rachel Carson Reserve
Interpretive walk featuring the wildlife & history of the local estuarine environment. Reservations $15, $10 ages [...]
September 14, 2009 – 11:12 am
BEAUFORT – Seafaring vessels of the 1700s and 1800s have been captured on canvas by internationally known maritime artist Paul Hee. The N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort will display an exhibit of his paintings from Oct. 3, 2009 through March 7, 2010. Hee has a special niche in the maritime art world. Unlike [...]
BEAUFORT – “Tie the Knot,” “Gorgon’s Knot,” “Sailor’s Knot” – from catch phrases to mythology to work and leisure, knots and ropes have been part of human culture for centuries. The North Carolina Maritime Museum will hold a Knotting & Splicing class in the Watercraft Center across from the museum on Saturday and Sunday, [...]
HATTERAS — David D. Moore, curator of Nautical Archaeology at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort, will give a free public presentation on the “Shipwrecked Slaver Henrietta Marie” at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras on Wednesday, July 15, at 7 p.m.
The Henrietta Marie is the first slave ship wreck in North [...]