over 100 ft long armed with 40 Cannon and crewed by about 150 Cutthroats Blackbeard's Queen an's Revenge was one of the most formidable pirate ships of its time contrary to what Hollywood movies often depict on the Silver Screen Pirates didn't all operate large heavily armed ships like the queen an's revenge in fact in the 18th century most would have used much smaller vessels called sloops the big advantage of a small Sloop is it was fast also it didn't draw much water so you could hide in coastal Waters fairly easily um you could lose yourself especially
in the Caribbean full of islands along the Atlantic seabro of America full of a barrier of of sand Islands so in those Waters they were perfect but as a pirate Captain the became more successful he would have expanded his operation Pirates were always on the lookout for a better ride often they wanted to trade up they wanted to replace that with a slightly larger ship which could carry more men more guns and more provisions and more more plunder they traded up their smaller ships and worked the way up until they had the big ultimate pirate
fighting ship and that's exactly how Blackbeard got hold of the queen an's Revenge it didn't start off with that name it was originally a French slave ship called lonor which Blackbeard captured in November 1717 pretty soon he tricked it out and turned it into the baddest ship in the Caribbean the conquer was great because it was a french-built slave ship and slaves slave ships are designed for Speed because essentially they have to transport a perishable human car go put in his most basic terms from the west coast of Africa to the Caribbean in the fastest
possible time with his little death and disruption as possible the design of a slave ship wasn't motivated by a respect for the human rights or suffering of the human cargo packed below decks it was motivated by money a slow passage meant more deaths and for every slave that died it meant less profit for the ship's owner at 104 ft in length the thre mastered 300t Lon cord packed a punch she was armed with 16 cannons but Blackbeard wasn't satisfied he refitted Lon cord ripping out its super structure to create deck space and beefed up its
Armament the claims are that it carried 40 guns which makes it one of the most powerful warships of flat but the supremacy of the queen an's Revenge was shortlived after just 6 months she hit a sandbar off bord Inlet North Carolina and sank in shallow water
