Group investigates whether shipwreck is Blackbeard's last prize

Monday, September 8, 2003

BEAUFORT, N.C. -- Archaeologists are investigating whether a burned shipwreck off the North Carolina coast is the remains of the last ship captured by the pirate Blackbeard.

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