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BEAUFORT — A small arsenal of guns covered the deck of the Coast Guard Cutter Smilax this week after a mission that seized a few pieces of history.
Five cannons were raised
Monday from the Queen Anne's Revenge shipwreck site at Beaufort Inlet,
the most recovered at one time from the wreck considered to be
Blackbeard's flagship.
“Today
is definitely a red-letter day: five guns coming off the site,” said
David Moore, who has been a member of the QAR team since recovery
efforts began.
The five
concretion-covered cast iron cannons averaged about 2,000 pounds each
and are among the largest of the guns recovered from the shipwreck site.
They fired six-pound cannons and were used in defense of the Queen
Anne's Revenge, which sank after running aground nearly 300 years ago.
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