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Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge 24" Description
Total Dimensions: 24" L x 6" W x 17" HSOLD FULLY ASSEMBLED
Ready for Immediate Display - Not a Model Ship kit
Brought to the silver screen in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the legendary Queen Anne's Revenge has been stunningly recreated in this fabulous model ship. In the movie Johnny Depp returns as Captain Jack Sparrow and crosses paths with the infamous pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane), dreaded captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge, while searching for the fabled Fountain of Youth.
Set sail for adventure on the high seas as you search for lost treasure aboard this scale tall model ship replica of a Blackbeard’s feared pirate ship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Fine craftsmanship and attention to detail highlight this exquisitely constructed tall sailing pirate ship. Whether seated upon a shelf, desk, or table, proudly display this Queen Anne’s Revenge pirate ship model and enjoy its indomitable spirit of adventure!
•Built from scratch by master artisans
•Individual wooden planks used in hull construction
•High quality woods include cherry, birch, maple and rosewood
•Extensive rigging features over 100 blocks and deadeyes
•Gun ports actually cut into the hull
•Amazing Details, including:
◦Planked deck with nail holes
◦Authentic scale lifeboat with oars
◦Rudder chains, metal anchors, cannonball racks
◦Fine-crafted embellishments carved on the stern
◦Additional deck details such as cannon balls, barrels, ladders and other nautical items
◦11 masterfully stitched canvas sails hold shape and do not wrinkle
◦Taut rigging with varied thread gauge and color
•Meticulous painting accurately matches the real Queen Anne’s Revenge
◦Wooden display base
•Extensive research of original plans, historical drawings and paintings as well as actual photographs ensures the highest possible accuracy
Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge 24" HistoryPrior to the Legend:
Built in 1710, the Concord enjoyed a brief life as an English ship before being captured by French forces in 1711. Constructed as a frigate, the ship was modified by the French to hold cargo, and slaves in particular, as at that time the slave trade was a burgeoning business in western France. Coming into the possession of French merchant Rene Montaudoin, La Concorde was operated out of the port of Nantes, the epicenter of the French slave trade during the 18th century. Making three runs over the course of the next decade, La Concorde would depart from Nantes with various French goods and wares, sail to the west coast of Africa to trade for slaves, and from there continue along the trans-Atlantic Middle Passage to the islands of the Caribbean.
While slave trading voyages were successful in 1713 and again in 1715, the 1717 journey would be the last for La Concorde. Leaving Nantes on November 24, 1717, armed with 16 cannons and a crew of 75, La Concorde departed for the African coast. On July 8 she arrived in the port of Judas, now Benin, Nigeria, and traded for 516 African slaves. Taking eight weeks to travel across the Atlantic, 61 slaves and 16 crew members died as cramped quarters and squalid conditions lead to the spread of scurvy and dysentery. After making it across the Middle Passage, approximately 100 miles out from the Caribbean island of Martinique, La Concorde and the pirate Edward Teach met for the first time. According to one Lieutenant Ernaut, arriving aboard La Concorde, two pirate sloops fired upon the French slave ship, and with the crew severely ill, Captain Dosset surrendered almost immediately. Taken to the Grenadine Islands, the majority of the French crew and African slaves were put to shore while others joined the pirates, gold and other loot was seized from the ships, and Edward Teach sailed from the Grenadines aboard La Concorde.
The Pirate Known as Blackbeard:
Better known as the infamous and legendary Blackbeard, Edward Teach became the quintessential pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy. Born circa 1680, not much is known about Teach’s early life, aside from that he was probably a privateer during Queen Anne’s War. From 1702 to 1713 as France and England battled over control of North America, many privateers joined the cause, especially around Spanish Florida and the Caribbean. As with many of these privateers, it is thought that Teach turned to piracy following the war, using the skills he learned for conquest and plunder in becoming Blackbeard. Moving to New Providence Island, Teach met and fell in with the pirate Captain Benjamin Hornigold, eventually becoming the legendary Blackbeard.
The Queen Anne’s Revenge Rises:
After capturing La Concorde near the island of Martinique , Captain Hornigold turned the ship over to Blackbeard as his flagship, to which he added cannons and his menacing flag, renaming her the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Throughout the next year, sailing throughout the Caribbean, Blackbeard’s legend grew as he became known for his frightening visage of bandolier guns, flowing capes, and lit fuses burning in his beard. Sailing through the Lesser Antilles, past St. Vincent, St. Lucia, and Nevis, Blackbeard continued on to Puerto Rico, and from there to Hispaniola, or present day Dominican Republic. After sinking a French ship off the coast of St. Christopher’s Island, Blackbeard resumed attacks on British, Dutch, and Portuguese merchant and slave ships throughout the area. In March of 1718, off the coast of Belize, Blackbeard and his crew spotted the sloop Adventure, captained by David Harriot, and boarded her. Convincing the captain and several of the crew to join with him, Blackbeard added the ship to his fleet and ventured out for further conquest. Sailing through the Bay of Honduras he collected another large ship and four sloops before capturing a Spanish ship later that year off the coast of Cuba.
Armed with a fleet of three sailing ships and five sloops, and approximately 300 crew, Blackbeard was now a true force to be reckoned with as he sailed from the Bahamas up the east coast North America. In May of 1718 Blackbeard and his pirates arrived along the coast of Charleston, South Carolina where the Queen Anne’s Revenge and three sloops came to blockade the port in what was Blackbeard’s boldest move as a pirate. After capturing the merchant ship Crowley, Blackbeard demanded medicine for his crew from the governor. After a week of raiding ships while awaiting the governor’s supplies, the medicine was delivered and the crew of the Crowley was returned unharmed, though lighter in the pockets, or without clothes at all. Following his victory, Blackbeard attempted to venture up North Carolina’s Old Topsail Inlet, now Beaufort Inlet, where he is rumored to have run the Queen Anne’s Revenge aground purposefully.
Blackbeard and the Queen Anne’s Revenge Meet Their Fate:
Though the true reason may never be known, what is known is that the Queen Anne’s Revenge ran aground on a sandbar, snapped her main mast and severely damaged her hull timbers, and eventually sank with little fan fair. After selecting a crew of his most trusted sailors and gathering the best of the bounty, Blackbeard escaped aboard the Adventure, leaving the Queen Anne’s Revenge to her fate. In June 1718 Blackbeard and his crew were pardoned by a blanket British Royal order, granting all pirates who surrendered before September 5, 1718, full amnesty. Though he surrendered after this date, regional governors were allowed to extend the pardon. In the next six months Edward Teach supposedly settled down and married, though eventually the sea’s call was too strong and he took up piracy as Blackbeard yet again. In November of 1718 word spread that Blackbeard and company were in Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina, and Governor
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