Tag Archives: Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Laboratory

250,000 Pieces of Blackbeard from Shipwreck

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. [...]

Conservation Tales of Pirate Life from Blackbeard Shipwreck

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 [...]