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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
A 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.
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Even a
dunce of a pirate feared that
tumble from a hangman's gallows. There was
always a code among the Brethen of the Coast to look out for one another. Blackbeard was extremely upset that he would not have a chance to fight "Black Sam" Bellamy face-to-face for his insult to the Captain the two had shared on
Mary Anne. He would not be
hasty in refitting his ship with crueller weapons to make sure that anyone involved with the hanging of pirates knew the consequences of these actions. He had to come up with just the right weapons.
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