Американские археологи подняли с океанского дна пушку с корабля Черной бороды грабившего суда в Карибском море. По тем временам корабль с сорока пушками был серьёзным аргументом, поэтому в в 1718-м он был пойман и убит британцами. Корабль "Месть королевы Анны" затонул у берегов Северной Каролины.
Спустя почти 300 лет его нашли и продолжают "по кусочкам" и фрагментам поднимать на поверхность.
Пушка длиной два с половиной метра весит около тонны и вся покрыта окаменевшим песком и кораллами.

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A one-ton cannon which was recovered from the Queen Anne's Revenge shipwreck site, is pulled from the water with the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries research vessel RV Shell Point looking on, near Beaufort, North Carolina, October 26, 2011. Archeologists raised another cannon from the sunken wreck of pirate Blackbeard's legendary ship off the coast of North Carolina. The eight-foot (2.4-metre) cannon, which had rested at the bottom of Beaufort Inlet since the ship Queen Anne's Revenge sank in 1718, was covered in a cement-like shell of sand, salt and sea life. Picture taken October 26, 2011.

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A one-ton cannon which was recovered from the Queen Anne's Revenge shipwreck site, is offloaded from the recovery ship to be taken for a public viewing at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort, North Carolina October 26, 2011. Archeologists raised another cannon from the sunken wreck of pirate Blackbeard's legendary ship off the coast of North Carolina. The eight-foot (2.4-metre) cannon, which had rested at the bottom of Beaufort Inlet since the ship Queen Anne's Revenge sank in 1718, was covered in a cement-like shell of sand, salt and sea life. Picture taken October 26, 2011.

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