TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sandler, Martin W.,
TI  - The Whydah: a pirate ship feared, wrecked, and found 
SN  - 9780763680336
AV  - F2161.5 .S26 2017
U1  - 910.4/5 23
PY  - 2017///.
CY  - Somerville, Massachusetts : 
PB  - Candlewick Press, 
KW  - Whydah (Ship)
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Pirates
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Buccaneers
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - Shipwrecks
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Cape Cod
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-166) and index
N2  - The exciting true story of the captaincy, wreck, and discovery of the Whydah the only pirate ship ever found and the incredible mysteries it revealed. The 1650s to the 1730s marked the golden age of piracy, when fearsome pirates like Blackbeard ruled the waves, seeking not only treasure but also large and fast ships to carry it. The Whydah was just such a ship, built to ply the Triangular Trade route, which it did until one of the greediest pirates of all, Black Sam Bellamy, commandeered it. Filling the ship to capacity with treasure, Bellamy hoped to retire with his bounty but in 1717 the ship sank in a storm off Cape Cod. For more than two hundred years, the wreck of the Whydah (and the riches that went down with it) eluded treasure seekers, until the ship was finally found in 1984 by marine archaeologists. The artifacts brought up from the ocean floor are priceless, both in value and in the picture they reveal of life in that much-mythologized era, changing much of what we know about pirates
ER  -