A conundrum that surrounds the sunken wreck of Blackbeard’s pirate ship has been recently solved by new research.
There’s been a longstanding mystery regarding how the vessel contained heaps of coal, considering it was before coal mining was even prevalent in America. However, scientists probably have an answer now.
Introduced in the early 18th century, the 31.4-meter-long ship was a French slave-trading vessel that sailed in the Atlantic. Back in 1717, on 28...