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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Blackbeard's crew were driven to collect more Madeira Wine (from the Islands off of West Africa). They searched all around the Bahamas and Bermuda for it but many merchants had become wary of Blackbeard's itchy cannon trigger when it came to alcohol. They stayed in port. There was also the very lurid reason that Blackbeard sunk the Betty out of Virginia after stealing all the Madeira Wine off of her but leaving the rest of her cargo sink to the bottom of the Atlantic. Many now knew to beware of his and his partner Captain Benjamin Hornigold's sloops if they carried Madeira Wine on board. Another reason, was that Blackbeard had been searching taken ships' cabins for any news of "Black Sam" Bellamy's ship the Whydah Gally as well as about Lawrence Prince's Sultana. He was afraid some rumors he had heard were true.
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medley of news reports
appeared in some of the papers Blackbeard found on ships he plundered of a disaster at sea on April 26, 1717 for the pirates of two of "Black Sam" Bellamy's convoy vessels. A Nor'eastern off of Cape Cod pushed
the Whyday Gally and her 145 man crew onto a sand bar and then a burst of a high wind snapped off masts which drug the ship out in 30 feet of water where she sank to a watery
crypt leaving only two survivors. Another of Bellamy's convey
the Mary Anne suffered the same fate but seven men got off that ship alive. "Black Sam" Bellamy's ship some reports said had been in sight of the woman who loved him
madly--Marie Hallett-- when it sunk 500 feet off of Eastham, MA. These news snippets also claimed that they pirates who survived were set to hang for their crimes after trial in Boston.
http://onmilwaukee.com/ent/articles/...atesopens.html National Geographic's "Real Pirates" exhibit is on view at Milwaukee Public Museum through May 27, 2013.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_King_(pirate) http://www.mpm.edu//plan-your-visit/...s/real-pirates