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The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found

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A 2018 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist

The exciting true story of the captaincy, wreck, and discovery of the Whydah — the one pirate ship ever found — and the fantastic mysteries it revealed.

The 1650s to the 1730s marked the golden age of piracy, when fearsome pirates like Blackbeard ruled the waves, in search of not only treasure but in addition large and fast ships to carry it. The Whydah used to be just one of these ship, built to ply the Triangular Trade route, which it did until one of the vital greediest pirates of all, Black Sam Bellamy, commandeered it. Filling the ship to capacity with treasure, Bellamy hoped to retire with his bounty — but in 1717 the ship sank in a storm off Cape Cod. For more than two hundred years, the wreck of the Whydah (and the riches that went down with it) eluded treasure seekers, until the ship used to be in any case found in 1984 by marine archaeologists. The artifacts brought up from the ocean floor are priceless, both in value and within the picture they reveal of life in that much-mythologized era, changing much of what we find out about pirates.

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