The Scariest Ship to Ever Sail the Seven Seas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ต.ค. 2013
- Blackbeard's infamous ship the Queen Anne's Revenge wasn't originally built to be a warship, but the notorious pirate refitted the ship, adding twenty-four canons to its armament.
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In my opinion the most terrifying pirate is the one that can do a perfect bootleg turn and sent u into a shipwreck bay in sea of thieves
I understand this.
Agreed
That's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen
@@IluvatarEru so it would seem....
@@thawk1435 DANADUNDUNDANADUNDUNDANADUNDUNDANADUN
“In a world without gold, we coulda been heroes!” - Blackbeard, AC4
Cmon man dont make me cry
The only game that made you feel for Blackbeard
Incredible...
This the square with the leg with the ball on it? It's just a upside down chess pawn piece atleast I know wheres it's coming from
Me with a high level jackdaw and high level crew :me are you sure about that?
Imagine today that would be equivalent to Somali pirates having a US Navy destroyer class.
It really wasn't. By this era this would be a fifth rate ship with only 40 guns, and would not be considered suitable to take part in a naval line battle. It would be crushed if it faced even a 3rd rate ship of the line. Pirates attacked merchant ships without protection, never line ships. It's more akin to Somalis having a frigate.
haha missle go boom
@@Fabianwew I think he meant back then compared to today, back then it was like a US Navy destroyer ship, ofc today it would be sunk in 30 sec if it had the same equipment as back then.
@@christofferlebechchristoff4928 Yes, I was talking about back then. It was a fifth or even sixth rate ship back then. A proper line ship back then would wreck it with without batting an eye.
@@christofferlebechchristoff4928 It was far from destroyer class back then, it was a frigate class.
So the scariest ship in the carribean hit a reef and sank ..... thats it , 40 cannons and all that..
Right !! Indeed .. What a shame ...
+moonhorse100 he probably did it on purpose
Thor - God of Thunder true
+Thor - God of Thunder They've proven that theory false. Examination of the wreckage shows attempts at moving and offloading ballast in an attempt to refloat her after she ran aground. He was just a small time idiot actually.
I never did like that theory anyway lol. But Thatch was a rather intelligent man though, able to read and write. I think there was something going on that we'll never know
In those days.. There is one ship that even Black beard would pray he never had to face.. Or even see... The Flying Dutchman
The Flying Dutchman is an transport ship, not a war ship
Quinten Mooij Yeah I know but IRL if you see it you're doomed.
T-14 Armada The Dutchman would win, in real life if you see The Dutchman it means you're going to sink no matter what.
T-14 Armada Yeah, so battleship aside you're fucked if you see this ship, better make port and never go out again lol
+WOLF Drc i dont know, the jackdaw was pretty fucking brutal
“The black pearl is a real ship.”
“No, no it’s not”
“Yes it is I’ve seen it”
The Silent Mary
The Flying Dutchman
The Queen Anne's Revenge
It’s more like guidelines than actual rules.
Well didn't they actually bouild it ?
Let’s be honest the most feared ship by all was... The Jackdaw
YESSSS TRULY HORROFYING
You know you here cuz of outer banks
Factssss
aye aye, matey
Morrigan and Aquila?
"In a world without gold we might've been heroes!"
Iconic
“He fitted it with 40 guns which makes it one of the scariest ships of the time”
*HMS Victory slowly sails in*
Well, the Victory was built *40 YEARS* after the QAR ran agroumd.
Frisco 1522 100 gun ships of the line existed well before Victory
@@LutzDerLurch Well, yeah, but those were equipped with lighter cannon loads.
Frisco 1522 lighter compared to later ships, yes, but still WAYY above the pesky 6pdr of the QAR.
Sovereign of the Seas was launched in 1637 and her lower deck guns were 42 pdr.s
I believe the QAR carried nothing larger than a 6 pdr.
SOTS carried nothing 6pdr. or smaller.
@@LutzDerLurch Good point. The Revenge was mainly targeting merchantmenl
Somehow it’s not the Jackdaw, the Black Pearl or the Flying Dutchman?
Impossible, perhaps the archives are incomplete
Morrigan 👀
Ah yes Star Wars x Pirates of the Carribean 😉
@@luisingber3304 Jackdaw and Morrigan are actually from Assassins creed unless there's a star wars ship called Jackdaw too
@@Max.44 he was refering to "perhaps the archives are incomplete" which is something Obi-Wan says in ROTS
@@ignaciob5203 no attack of the clones.
To me what’s even more amazing is , how these boats were constructed back then - All By Hand basically. The craftsmanship is truly awesome!!
You know what's the scariest part about this ship? The captain
No, it's the crew smell
The captain of the new Titanic named the USA is a very scary captain.He's going to sink us for sure!!
The most dangerous pirate alive....Monkey.D Luffy!!!
The Flying Dutchman was the most scariest ship ever!
Barto Bruintjes nah
“That’s got to be the best pirate I have ever seen.”
So it would seem.
@@thebigcnel "Pirates of the caribbean theme intensifys"
I'd like to mention that apparently Blackbeard was a naval soldier in Queen Anne's War. I would be willing to bet that his decision to call his ship "Queen Anne's Revenge" was inspired by his experience or feelings regarding the war.
"What the Black Pearl really is.., is freedom". -Captain Jack Sparrow.
The greatest ship to ever sail the 7 seas was the dread ship Guppy, cut out of and assembled from the back of cereal boxes, she was commanded by the famous and dreaded Captain Crunch! YARRRR
Buccaneer's Reef Infamous rather than famous;)
And the Minnow would be lost!!
Cap'n Crunch is also likely responsible for more deaths than Black Beard, he just plays the long game.
I love that stuff
Might of been a short lived six months, but in those six months it became legendary
Thanks to it's Captain 😁
That was the most... anti-climactic ending ever. Just saying...
Flying Dutchman: You dare oppose me, mortals!?
Release the Kraken!
"In a world without gold, we might have been heroes"
-Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach
The Jackdaw is the most feared pirate ship in the 18th century along with its infamous captain, Edward Kenway. :)
Troll?
Unfortunately that was fictional
+Connor Kingston nice job playing along.
Red Wolf Gaming Thank you
Damian Callahan Yah you're right it was the last pirate ship in the Caribbean the Jackdaw but it wasn't fast enough to catch The Black Pearl
they found the ship in 1996 and they are still recovering pieces of it today!
Another contender for most fearsome pirate ship was The Fancy, captained by Henry Avery. A Man-of-war with 40 guns and a crew of maybe 125-50. It was modified to be extremely fast. In the 1690s it captured the Ganj-I-Sawai, which was the richest treasure ship in the world at the time. Years later, several other pirates named their ships The Fancy for good luck
Let’s be honest here the scariest pirates was the pirate king himself Gol D. Roger
I do believe it would be the future pirate king Monkey D. Luffy the Mugiwara
Ahh yes I can see you are a man of culture.
Everybody knows clown D. buggy is the greatest captain ever
@@acedataker5289 I feel like home here
@@acedataker5289 finally
If anyone who played sea of thieves it would be the sloop
indeed.
It had what was called a Droop Sloot. Droop Sloot? Yes, the sloop drooped.
5 man sloop 😳
Bilge rat galleons
@@zSTALKn **Fear**
I watched this because of Sea of Thieves.
Same
Same
Same
Same.
sa me
The Yamato be like: Sooooooooooo my 18 inch gun is not scary at all huh, a few small canons are scary?
The Yamato's crew wouldn't brutalize your entire entourage in front of you if you dared resist their attack.
So Blackbeard was the 18th century equivalent of those executives who buy million dollar sports cars just to wreck it on the way out.
Executives son* more like. Executives require some brain at least. Blackbeards life was a joke, in all honesty. Ran aground more than this ship.
@@MCshadr217 but you cant deny the fact blackbeard was awesome, he was 6'5, 220lbs with a flaming beard and he took 3 bullet shots and 27 sword cuts until he finally died when they cut his head off
@@MCshadr217 and as people say he was terrifying to enemies and crew members and could roar like a cannon
@@dusanradovanovic81 Yep He was tactical. Never killed anybody until his final battle with Maynard. He ruled the seas out of fear not brute force like many imagined
Crazy that all the notoriety associated with Blackbeard and the Queen Anne's Revenge comes from only six months.
Permission to board Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge: bit.ly/1suQClg
Smithsonian Channel What's the ship?
+Smithsonian Channel Yeah totally! what's the name of this ship ?!
+Cap'tain Silver (“LongJohnS94”) We have the right to know.
why did you Lie to youtube blackbeard had the ship in 2 years then he got in a battle whit a another ship and that ships crew cheated Blackbeard and his crew. Then they all got killed
Permission to call the Smithsonian and its so called historians - dumbasses! How about you research a REAL pirate with an actual career that mattered. How about Bart Roberts, Laurens DeGraaf or Francois L'Ollinais
One most powerful pirate ships of its time sank by one most embarrassing reason.
dont believe
+J Infinity What?
+Mairo Olgo he probably beached her on purpose
Thor - God of Thunder Well I should watch docs about Blackbeard but why would he sink her?
+Mairo Olgo after a brief retirement in the outer banks his crew of roughly 400 got pissed at him, threatening mutiny he may have ran the ship aground on purpose as an excuse to drop 320 of them
me and my sea of thieves solo sloop: *ok*
A lot of people miss the point: the Queen Anne's Revenge was the largest warship commandeered by pirates. It's sighting caused an international crisis that precipitated in the British sending an entire War Fleet to destroy it. Blackbeard even managed to blockade one of the largest American colonial cities with it (and a few smaller ships)
... You realse Queens Ann was a converted Merchant right?
In the Sea of Thieves, the solo sloop is the most feard ship in the water.
The only thing that’s scarier than this is a sloop that is smart and knows how to set your ship on fire
ugh.sounds to me like blackbeard was a better pirate then he was a captain.
Shiver me timbers
More like he wrecked the ship on purpose.
*Queen annes revenge is the best ship*
Jackdaw: and i took that personally
It's a normal Wednesday, a kid gets ready to do a presentation in History class.
Student: By far the strongest ship during the Golden Age of Piracy was the El Impoluto!
Teacher: Cool fact Bob, what's your source?
Student: Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag, every educated historian gets their information about the Golden Age of Piracy and naval warfare from here!
Teacher: ..............
Basically sums up some of the comments down here!
Maurice The Guitar Hero lol ac IV ftw ;P
What the hell is bloody marry? A sign on their flags? The only thing I know is bloody mary the drink.
@@dcv2009 Many pirate flags were red, not all black as to popular belief. Also relative to the signal their purpose.
Well, we all know the drill, history is written by the winners so we'll never know what really happened unless somebody presents us with a timemachine.
In the end, history is nothing but a puzzle and not the 4k picture some tv shows and youtube channels try to sell us.
Some say pirates were only a bunch of thieves and murderers, others say they were fighters for freedom and a kind-of democracy. I guess there's truth in both.
@@R4Y2k better explanation than any videogames
I used to believe Blackbeard was just a myth until i read that some parts of the Queen Anne's Revenge had been found in 1996
Imagine having such a ship, winning battles and just sink because of a sandbank
The ending of the story sucks.
Can we get a re-write
A spin-off, maybe.
The scariest ship: that one lvl 5 reaper galleon
imagine being in a row boat fishing and seeing black beards ship heading your way over the horizon
William Teach (Blackbeard) was from Bristol, that was the UK’s leading slaving port. There were many more less famous privates, but just as successful privates that operated out of the West Coast of the UK.
Bartholomew Roberts (Black Barty) is by far the most successful pirate of the early 18th century heyday. Blackbeard took a total of twenty ships- Roberts took four hundred, he even took on, and beat two Portuguese man o' war and the treasure ship they were supposably protecting.
No. Edward Kenway is, he took on over 1,000,000 ships with his Jackdaw (since millions of people played Black Flag) :)
actually in the game menu there is a sesion where you can see records and everything,most kills,money and stuff like that,and when you look at the sunken ship record the guy in the top 1 has took over 59 millions of ship,of course there is people "following" (since it is a top) who have also kill millions and millions of ships.
I have always doubted the numbers of Roberts. I mean, he was active for just a few years. It would mean a ship almost every 3 or 4 days.
No pirate in the atlantic could compete with Peter Easton. Commanded 40 vessels defeated every force sent against him, retired on his own terms with 2 Million Pounds acquired the title of Marquis. His lieutenant even married an Irish princess
Black Bart also lived like 3 times longer than the average pirate. He did it right
Buaha the pirate captains had to have a good laugh. He "beefed up" the ship, added the guns and then sunk it after 6 months. Like smashing your Porsche into your garage :))
"most would've used much smaller vessels called sloops"
me, a sea of thieves player: Yes, with 50 gunpowder kegs
Imagine being the most fearsome pirate of your time and sinking to some sand.
Just to point out about it sinking so soon, alot of people think he did it on purpose. The way the ship sank was too easy to avoid and it is believe it could have easily been saved even after hitting the reef. Blackbeard loaded most of his supplies onto two smaller ships, probrably so he could hide more effectively. Or at least that's what we can figure out so far. Nobody knows for certain.
Actually,the real pirates were the British navy.
Ben Johnson Aye matey sounds in a British accent.
100%
that is privateering, government sponsored piracy against war enemies. most pirates actually were privateers under the british or other countries navies, and whenever these countries scaled back privateer operations (like at the end of a war) the privateers went rogue and became pirates.
Ben Johnson your last Name is Swedish , that’s cool
The...beauty of legality. Its not piracy if its done by privateers.
From Spain we have the "Santísima Trinidad" with 140 cannons and over 1000 men, at least it went down on battle xD
From Portugal we have the “Bota Fogo” the fear of all navys, with 366 cannons so no have possible comparation 🤣
@@albertofaria5554 No posible comparation? I'm pretty sure the Santísima Trinidad would have sunk the Bota Fogo, it's a more advanced design, near 200 years is Bota fogo older than ST. If it's a matter of size only, then what about our current LHC Juan Carlos, what do you have? 😏
I haven't watched it yet but if it ain't Queen Anne's Revenge I'm gonna cry.
Alright I'm not gonna cry.
@@AlexSoetekouwProductions lol
The Flying Dutchman was the most scariest ship ever!
KEEENNNWAAAYY!! I NEED MORE CANNONS
Oh, I can hear the Blackbeard accent when he say "KEEENNNWAAAYY!!"
Whatever, man. Put ol' Blackbeard on any ship, and that ship will be the new scariest.
"Why would you fly a black flag if a blackbeard will do" - edward thatch ac4
Wow, the new Sea of Thieves update looks good.
Bruh queen Anne revenge is a ship from assassins creed black flag not fron sea of thieves
@@pranavj7699 It is also in the forth pirates of the caribbean film
At the start it looked like The Jackdaw (Edward Kenway's ship)
No it dosent.... It looks like your regular brig class of ships :) , all brigs are two masted, and usually all look the same...but your right it does look this ship, because its the same ship :) well same class
except it has 3 masts. the queen anns revenge was damn near a frigate and twice the size of your average brig
Actually I hate to be a smarty pants but your right Edward A and the rest of you are wrong. It was Edward Kenways ship. It doesn't say it anywhere in a book or online but Blackbeards original name was Edward Kenway and when he got married he changed his name to Edward Teach. Back than the men were the ones that had to change their last name. Plus Blackbeard was only a nickname because he smoked a lot and his beard gut ash on it all the time and he had black hair so the name stuck. I just wanted to let you know.
Nick Pratt but Blackbeard’s wife (or Edward Teach) was Mary Ormond
“In a world without gold, we could’ve been heroes!”
Even though it sunk in probably the most embarrassing way. He still is a Legendary Pirate
Sorry guys, but The Royal Fortune was the scariest ship to ever sail the seven seas. When Bartholomew Roberts sailed in men: Sailors, Captain's & Admirals alike deserted their posts and fled to shore, their cannon loaded & without firing a single shot. When he was known to be coming their way, Both merchant & naval ships sailed away, deserting the ports. That's just 2 instances. On that score I think enough is said.
just fuking drunk pirates. they only used smaller ships, cause they were faster and they could hidde easly.. also would represent less crew..british and dutch people were the pirates , they were thieves, notthing special.
th msot terrible ships were from the portugueses.A sigle ship had to be attacked by several pirates cause they wouldnt attack big monsters, alone.A single portuguse galleon could destroy a village
the most terrible was the galleon São João Baptista , nick name , Botafogo (spitfire) . Even many pirate ships togetther would run away from it.Attacking it would represent suicide. It was used to conquer the city of Tunes, the pirate black bear heard abpout this there and he ran aways immediatlly avoiding the fight. This is not ficction but history.
366 brass cannons
1.000 tonnes.
Poor pirates, they only attacked small merchant ships...
vleonica how about the USS Constitution. It's Nick notice Old Ironsides because Kenna balls would bounce off the side of the ship. You didn't use regular pain with them pretty much every wooden ship used at that time it was more of an oak base found in the southern part of the US which made it heavier ship and a whole lot harder put a hole in it
*Me sailing with a Sloop in Sea of Thieves*
Ha, knew i'm a true Pirate!
What about the Portuguese "Botafogo" (Saint John Baptist). It broke through the chains of Golleta (Tunis) literally, had a displacement of 1000 tons of water, armed with 366 pieces of artillery, 600 musketeers, 400 sword soldiers, and 300 artillerymen. It gave name to both families and places
it was the biggest, strongest and most advanced Galleon ever built.
2:25 hard to breathe back then aswell...
Hey....✊🏾
Everyone knows the jackdaw is the scariest lol
The jack daw is fictional I think
DaPieLord9 Wolololol thanks mr obvious
ya a brig with the same amount of guns as a man o' war.
Last Assassin yeah sure any doubt in that?
YEAH
That was a quick ending “the best ship in the world sank 12 minutes later by land bye” lol
My Sea of Thieves galleon fleet could make short work of that nonsense
I swear 🤣😈
The scariest ship of all time is the Jackdaw because it can beat the Queen Anne’s Revenge, Legendary Ships! Man o’ Wars/Ship of the lines. It’s also very fast,really manoeuvrable and very sneaky.
What about the Morrigan
@@ValtVeee it’s really good, especially in terms of manoeuvrability and has a technological advantage
0:59 Open carry -_-
Yeah, he would surely get problems with police in many countries and some states of the USA. Probably would get a fine or even get arrested.
FYI mates, when a cannon boards a ship it is no longer called a cannon, it is a gun.
Interesting video.
Queens Anne's revenge: im the sccariest ship
El Glorioso: HAHAHA sure
I know what you mean.
El Glorioso sin lugar a dudas.
know it from assassin's creed IV: black flag, can't believe it's real!
They actually fact check a lot
Roronoa Zoro actually all the people you come across in the game were real people, and the ships were real ships, only fake characters and ships were the the assassins, Edward, and the jackdaw, everything else is very close to historical evidence.... Even the deaths of the characters in game, are in the same place they actually died...what caused there death in game might be different, by the location, and year, are real, example Mary read aka James the kid, died of a fever in 1721, in port royal, near the city of Kingston, Jamaica..she became one of the most famous women pirate in history..her father , which is not I'n game, ironically is one of the most famous pirates ever, which was William the Kidd, he was hanged for piracy....daughter like father
Don't they teach history in school anymore? I knew about this in the second grade, and didn't even have video games or computers back then....smh... what a shame this generation has become...
Yorick Aname Its your generation that doesn't actually teach students anything you moron.
The beginning had me like "Over a 100 feet long" Oh you talking bout me :) ?
"Sloops were fast"
Me who plays Sea of thieves: Ara Ara
And now, the non-hype version
The Queen Anne's Revenge was just your regular ship, and of all pirates, Black Beard was one of the gentles.
Really, he used this ship for a few months and then left it in favor of a faster, smaller ship.
Contrary to what is told, Black Beard was in contact with several Island governors and owners, and that was mostly because of his popularity.
His final attack was near the island he was hiding on. And the Queen Anne's revenge wasn't part of the battle.
This video is just about his Queen Anne's Revenge. It has little to do with his Legacy, as arguably, "The Greatest Pirate that ever lived." Just to clarify.
We shall remember you, Teach. May you Rest in Peace.
+razalin i just want to say that as far as pirates are concerned, blackbeard was far from the greatest, just the most iconic.
Arguably indeed! Maybe great as the most well known name and false Hollywood legend perhaps. FAR FAR FAR from the greatest and much closer to the least great actually. I would put maybe a half dozen pirates below him in the bottom 10 including Charles Swan, Stede Bonnet and John Quelch - with a lower score when tallying up numbers of years active, prizes taken, amount of haul, great deeds, and did they live to retirement. Teach is in or close to the bottom 10 historically speaking. Most people don't study historical piracy. My top 10 list would be:
1. Henry Avery
2. Laurens DeGraaf
3. Bart Roberts
4. Francois L'Ollinais
5. Black Sam Bellamy
6. Daniel Montbars (the Destroyer)
7. Christopher Myngs
8. Roc Brasiliano
9. Jean du Casse
10. Nicholas Van Hoorn
But you've probably never heard of any of these....right? Any of these above would have had Blackbeard polishing their boots.
Razalin 20 stab wounds , 50 shot wounds , killed The most Badass Pirate to ever set Sail , wonder if Teach back from the land of the dead xD.
Razalin
Teach was a psychopath, he wasn't a good man. You shouldn't exactly praise him
I was just thinking about that too, indeed the stories are cool but he was a criminal and If you saw his ship coming towards you, you would fear for you life.
"We shall remember you, Teach. May you Rest in Peace." such a weird thing to say if you ask me...
Ah yes, 3 minutes of how he got the ship for 20 seconds of epic tale of it sinking in shallow waters.
The scariest ship to ever sail the seven seas, everyone.
Something to note is its not just number of cannons that determines a vessel's power, but the size of cannonball they fired. A ship with 40 six pounders is a very different thing from a ship with 40 16 pounders.
Imagine paying your tax dollars back in the day just for this BEHEMOTH to sink in a storm smh
The scariest ship that has sailed around the globe its called BOTAFOGO, a portuguese ship that helped conquering Tunis and scared everyone. Get your facts right.
366 guns I woudl like to see the QAR fight that or even the "Padre Eterno" 144 guns and very fast for what was essentially a first rate ship of the line ( I know it was a called a galleon)
Its UTUBE what does FACTS have to do with it.
Yeah I'm pretty sure the Smithsonian is more knowledgeable then your little Google search.
Nothing beat the Black Pearl
Anyone know what ship was used in the footage? Looks a lot like a replica but I haven't been able to find it
I thought the concord was a British built ship captured by the French? Not as he says in the video "French Built"
40 guns, most powerfull ship afloat? give me a break.. blackbeard's largest callibre canons were 6 pounders. He didn't trick it out to be a warship at all.
Apkans Most Pirates sailed 10 gun sloops, a 40 gun Guineaman was a warship.
Any portuguese galleon would put some pirates ships running away.Iam talking about hudreds of cannons, and some very big cannon, would sink a ship in a shot.
There was no ship during that period with hundreds of cannons. The most amount of cannons put on a ship with sails was I believe the Santisima Trinidad which was built for 112 guns, but it grew to over 130 guns over time.
Horatio Nelson HMS Prince built in 1670 had 100 guns...
Its not even about number of guns, its the weight of its broadside, and how fast you can fire.
Broadside of 20 guns of 6 pounders: weight of fire 120 pounds.
Same ship, instead of long guns armed with short carronades carries maybe a broadside of 12 guns:
12 guns, shot weigh of 32 pounds, is 384 pounds weigh broadside.
BUT, loading shorter barrels with trained, experienced and disciplined Navy crew, increase fire speed by 1.5
So a pirate ship with 20 guns, 2 broadsides at 240 pounds.
A Navy ship with 12 carronades, 3 broadsides at the same amount of time, totaling a 1152 pounds.
Thats almost 5 times the firepower.
Yeah. And this is still a small third rate. A proper first rate could easily throw half a ton of iron at you in one go.
Some people these days, think its ok to just say anything for any reason...
Then again, its not lie if its the SCARIEST ship... If we define that we are on a merchantman and our convoy is escorted by a proper first rate, we would feel very, very safe instead and laugh at pirates and their puny ships.
Queen Anne's Revenge was terrifying because Blackbeard commanded it. I'd argue that from what I've read, Henry Every's Fancy was probably a superior ship (it had over 40 canons, and was noted for its exceptional speed). Then again it was about two decades earlier, so I don't know how much ship-building improved over those decades.
"the claims are that it carried 40 cannons, which made it one of the most powerful ships afloat"
*Laughs in 7 provinciën*
What about flying dutchman
In Spongebob, or Pirates of the Caribbean?
@@ra_alf9467 or one piece?
been playing sea of thieves lately.... coincedince?!?!?
very awesome
Scariest ship ever? Laughs in US Navy
Smithsonian disappoints me so badly with this title. Their reputation for scholarship continues to decline.... The greatest REAL pirate ships which actually took many prizes and saw real combat (rather than a slaver pierced for small 6 pounder guns - simply run aground by a small time pip-squeak of a pirate with a catchy name who couldn't navigate) - were 1) Bartholomew Robert's "Royal Fortune" whose reputation was so great, ships (both naval and merchant) would run away when they heard she was coming. She was a former Royal Africa Company Armed merchantman with two full decks of guns equivalent to an English (50 gun) Fourth rate. 2) Henry Morgan's "Satisfaction" which was a former naval vessel of two decks mounting impressive ordinance (40-50 guns), or 3) Laurens De Graaf's "Neptune" - formerly the Governor of Cartegena's War Galleon "San Fransisco" taken by DeGraff in combat. She mounted between 50 to 60 guns. This ship took part in many raids to include the greatest pirate raid in history, the attack on the center of Spanish Gold distribution in the Americas, Vera Cruz in 1683. There were many other famous pirate ships also far greater than the Queen Anne's Revenge. Just look up the ships named "Fancy" to find a few. To learn more find Buccaneers Reef dot com
modernknightone Queen Anne's Revenge was feared due to how uncommon a pirate ship of that size was at the time. Also the Fortune had less guns and was around 30 different ships.
Suggest you hit the books again. People are always confused by this but its really rather simple. Roberts liked the name Fortune. At one time his fleet had three different ships with fortune in their names at the same time (Fortune, Good Fortune, and Royal Fortune) He did not name all of his ships Royal Fortune either. He sailed on the Royal Rover as his flagships for some time. There were in actuality only four of his ships ever named Royal Fortune. Sources that say 6 or 8 have not done the proper research and are confusing the matter by adding these other ships named fortune which were different ships than his flagship. As I said above his last ship was a captured Royal Africa Company frigate of about 4th to 5th rate.
She was originally named the Onslow and was carrying hundreds of troops to Africa and EIC outposts. The Onlsow was armed with 42 guns. These were NOT the small 3 to 6 pounders that would have been found on the Queen Anne's Revenge. These would have been royal ordinance and probably 9 pounders to 16 pounders found on different parts of the ship - 16 pounders on the lower deck and 12 pounders in the waist with 6 or 9 pounders on either side of her waist on the quarterdeck and focsle. Her tonnage probably outweighed the QAR by at least a hundred and more probably two-hundred tons.
So she far outclassed the Queen Anne's Revenge and was probably double her size. And oh BTW the Queen Anne's Revenge wasn't feared because it never really had the chance to be. She was probably active as Teach's flagship and actively hunting for all of three or four months. He received the ship from Hornigold in December 1717 and she probably took a month or two to refit. She was run aground in May 1718. We only know of two actual prizes that he took during this time. Its reputation of fear is a modern revisionist appliance.
modernknightone Fair enough. People think that because Teach was feared his ship was feared.
modernknightone Someone really hates Blackbeard.
I just don't think he deserves the fame he gets just because of his name. His short career pales next to the careers of the truly great pirate captains who rarely get credit for their great acts. No one remembers someone named Laurens DeGraff but everyone remembers someone named Blackbeard. Laurens was so feared by the Spaniards (who referred to him as Laurencillo) that he became the Spanish version of the "boogey-man" that frightened children at bed time for over a century after his death.
blackbeard didnt capture the Concorde though, Benjamin Hornigold did.
If I ever get the money I want to build a yacht that looks like one of the old ships like a war galleon, large galleon, or frigate, almost like a resto mod car, a mix of that beautiful design and some technology. They are beautiful ships, true works of art.
That ended quite unceremoniously
Well that was anti climactic.
weichiang89 Reality usually is.
I thought Black Bear ran her into the shallows and abandoned her on purpose?
No Black Bear ran up the river to try to catch more delicious Salmon.
lol . That made me laugh so I wont fix it.
SMH...perfect!
Jackdaw: comes in Nokias way
Nokia:FINALLY A WORHTY OPPONENT UR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY
"perishable human cargo" are some of the bleakest words I've ever heard
this video was anti climax
*anticlimatic