From London the ship headed to Africa, from Africa to America and again to London. The ship was very fast, its speed was 13 knots (23.4 km/h). Speed was very important to ensure that slaves survived to London. But even with such speed, the sailing time for blacks from Africa to London took about 3 months.
New captain
The first captain on Waida was Lawrence Prince. In 1717, he went to the Caribbean Islands, where he exchanged gold for African slaves. With the gold he received, he went to England, but on the way there he encountered a pirate ship. The pirate captain, Sam, captured Vaida without firing a shot. He gave his ship to the captured merchants, and he and his crew moved to Vaida and appropriated all the gold for themselves.
It is believed that Black Sam was very lucky; his loot is one of the largest in the history of piracy. The ship could transport up to 4.5 tons of gold and treasures. Black Sam improved the ship, he increased the number of weapons on the ship, thereby making Vaida almost invincible. The firing range of the guns was 1 kilometer. Although it must be said that shelling from guns was dangerous only at a distance of closer than half a kilometer. Wajda's captain became ruler of the area from Florida to the shores of the Caribbean Sea.
Destruction of Wajda
Tasting his greatness, he went north to pick up his beloved Maria Hallett. On the way to Vaida, a powerful storm hit, the ship was washed ashore and thrown onto the sandbank. The mast could not stand it and broke, and the ship capsized. Of the 146 people on the ship, only two survived. The captain died, he had the opportunity to be a master at sea on Vaida for only a year. In 1982, Vaida was found and explored.
This was the first pirate ship to be found and explored. Researchers found many interesting and unusual pirate weapons on the ship. In the holds of Vaida, archaeologists found money and valuables. Many things were broken or cut, as the obtained treasures were divided among the pirates by weight. Judging by the findings, there were pirates of all ages on the ship. The smallest pirate was less than eleven years old. He brought gunpowder during the battle. A bell was installed on the ship, which was a symbol of equality.
Whydah Gally was the flagship of the pirate "Black Sam" Bellamy. The three-masted sailing ship, 31 meters long (about 105 feet), displacing 300 tons and speeding up to 13 knots (14.95 mph), was launched in 1715 in London and was used for the transatlantic slave trade.
Wajda walked along the so-called “triangle”: London - Africa - America, transporting goods from England in exchange for slaves from West Africa. The slaves sailed on it for only three months, which was a very short period of time that allowed most of them to be transported alive.
Whydah sailed with slaves to the Caribbean, where he received precious metals, sugar, indigo and medicinal plants in exchange for them, which he then transported to England.
Whydah had one of the most advanced weapons systems of the time. It was equipped with 28 cannons that fired at a distance of up to a kilometer. At the end of February 1717, Whydah, under the command of Prince Captain Lawrence, was between Cuba and Haiti when it was attacked by pirates led by “Black Sam” - Bellamy. During the capture of the ship, Bellamy was in possession of the ship - Sultan and the sloop Marianne. After After a three-day chase, Prince Lawrence surrendered his ship near the Bahamas, capitulating after an exchange of cannon fire.
Bellamy decided to take Whydah as his new flagship. Some of the ship's crew did not part with their ship and joined the pirates. As a gesture of goodwill towards the captain, who surrendered without a fight, Bellamy gave him his ship Sultan, along with 20 pounds sterling in silver and gold. The Whydah was equipped with 10 additional cannons and, with a new captain and 150 crew, he and Bellamy sailed to the Carolinas and headed north along the east coast of the American colonies, plundering and capturing ships along the way.
Some legends say that Bellamy wanted to visit his mistress, Maria Hallett, who lived near Cape Cod, while others blame the navigator's mistake. In any case, on April 26, 1717, Whydah was sailing in a severe storm dangerously close to Cape Cod.
The ship was thrown onto the sandbank. The mainmast burst, pulling the ship which, as a result, capsized and quickly broke into pieces. By morning, 102 pirate corpses had washed ashore and hundreds of Cape Cod residents were looting the remains of the shipwreck. Of the 144 crew members, only two survived.
Only nine members of Bellamy's two ships survived the storm. In October 1717, six of them were tried and hanged in Boston three weeks before King George officially pardoned all pirates. Two of the surviving members of Whyde's crew were released, and one was sold into slavery before trial.
According to surviving crew members, Bellamy's ship contained between four and a half to five tons of silver, gold, gold dust and jewelry, which were stored in bags and chests in the ship's hold. Although the location of the shipwreck was known, little of this enormous treasure was salvaged.
The treasure was found only in 1984 - almost three hundred years later by American researcher Barry Clifford. Bellamy's ship was the first pirate ship found with such a huge cargo of jewelry. 4.5 tons of treasures and artifacts were recovered from the bottom of the sea. Among them is the Wajda bell, which was a symbol of equality and hung on the bow of the ship.
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I present to your attention " TOP 5 sunken ships with jewelry“And this is only a small part of what is known or found, and how much more lies at the bottom...
The first place is occupied by the Spanish frigate, which sank off the coast of Portugal during the Battle of Cape Santa Maria in 1804. The ship's cargo consisted of gold and silver in Spanish coins, estimated to be worth approximately €370 million. And so far this is the largest treasure ever found at sea.
The wreckage and cargo of a Spanish galleon was discovered in 2007 by Odyssey Marine. Over the recovered treasure, a legal battle broke out between American hunters and Spain, which once owned the warship. The legal battle lasted 5 years, and ultimately Judge James Pizzo ruled that the United States did not have jurisdiction over the case, and therefore the treasure should return to Spain. The treasure was delivered by two Spanish C-130 military transport aircraft.
Not everything has been brought to the surface yet; the approximate amount of the Atocha treasures still remaining under water is estimated at no less than $500 million; it is also worth considering that along with this galleon, 8 more ships sank during the storm! By the way, quite recently they found another part of the treasures of Atocha, so there will be many more discoveries.
Bellamy's ship was found in 1982 by American explorer Barry Clifford. (Moreover, the finds are not over yet)
The ship contained some of the largest treasures in the history of piracy; about $400 million worth of valuable pirate weapons, coins and other artifacts were recovered.
The three-masted sailing ship was launched in 1715 in London, but then it was not a pirate ship. The captain of the Whydah ship Lawrence Prince arrived in the Caribbean in 1717 and received gold for African slaves. In March 1717, on his way to England, he was captured by pirates without firing a shot, despite his good weapons. As a result, Black Sam gives his ship to the traders, and he himself moves to Vaida.
But the ship did not serve the pirates for long; soon, during one of the storms, the sailing ship was thrown onto the sandbank. The mainmast burst, the ship capsized and quickly broke into pieces.
Another ship discovered by echo sounders in 2011 by the Odyssey Marine Exploration company, this time the cost of the lifted cargo was estimated at $200 million. The main cargo that the ship carried consisted of silver and cast iron ingots.
In 1940, the ship left Calcutta as part of a British military convoy, but fell behind and was eventually torpedoed by a German submarine, after which it sank within minutes. Of the 85 crew members, only assistant captain Richard Ayres miraculously survived; he sailed on a lifeboat for almost 13 days until he reached the shore.
And another ship discovered at a depth of more than 500 meters by Greg Stemm and John Morris from Odyssey Marine Explorations Inc. By the way, people spent 12 years searching for this ship. The steamship Republic was found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean about 160 kilometers southeast of the American city of Savannah.
In the holds of the steamer "Republic" they found wealth worth about 120-180 million dollars. The ship was carrying gold twenty-dollar coins, which were planned to be used to restore the southern states after the Civil War of 1861-1865.
The ship sank in 1865 on October 25 during a storm. 59 ship passengers managed to survive in lifeboats.
Ouidah(English) Whydah Gally, also found incorrectly "Whidah" or "Whidaw") - the flagship of the pirate Black Sam Bellamy. The common translation "Ouida" or "Ouida" is incorrect, since the ship was named after the city of Ouidah in Benin - then the center of the slave trade.
The ship was launched in 1715 in London. Used to transport slaves from Africa. I walked along the so-called “triangle”: London - Africa - America.
It was very fast (13 knots) to prevent the death of blacks, but the slaves it carried sailed in it for three months.
Capture by pirates
The captain of the Ouida, the Dutchman Laurens Prince (the British called him Lawrence), arrived in the Caribbean in 1717 and received gold for African slaves. In March, on his way to England, Bellamy was captured without firing a shot. The generous Bellamy gives his ship to the merchants, and he himself moves to the Ouida.
The ship contained some of the largest treasures in the history of piracy (in modern equivalent, this is 6-8 million dollars). The Ouida could hold up to 4.5 tons of treasure.
Bellamy increased the number of guns to 26 (or 28), and according to other sources to 50, such a ship could withstand any attack. The guns had a range of about a kilometer, however, it was possible to shoot accurately only from a distance of half a kilometer.
Black Sam pirated from the Caribbean to Florida. He soon turned north to his lover, Mary Hallett. He was caught in a storm of up to 70 knots. "Ouida" was carried to the shore and thrown onto the sandbank, the mast broke, the ship capsized, many people were crushed by the cannons and died on the reefs.
Of the 146 people, only two survived. This is Thomas Davis, 23 years old, who was acquitted at trial because he swore that he was forced to be a pirate. And John Julian, who was sold back into slavery.
Sam himself died; his career lasted only a year.
Finding "Uida"
Bellamy's ship was the first pirate ship found in 1982. American explorer Barry Clifford continues to find many valuable artifacts at the bottom.
Coins were found on the ship: reals and pesos (one eighth of a real). A total of 4.5 tons of treasure. More than 100 thousand artifacts were found only on the surface. Treasures were broken or cut as they were divided by weight. A Masonic sign was found on a tin plate.
Based on the remains, it was determined that Bellamy had no differences even in age. Young John King, the smallest pirate in history, served under him (he was less than 11 years old, he worked as a gunpowder carrier).
The Uida bell was found - a symbol of equality; as a sign of this, it was located not as usual, at the stern of the captain, but at the bow of the ship.
Many lead spools have been found that were of great importance to pirates.
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- What is this? “What have you done, I’m asking you,” she said sternly.- I? what am I? - said Pierre.
- A brave man has been found! Well, tell me, what kind of duel is this? What did you want to prove with this? What? I'm asking you. “Pierre turned heavily on the sofa, opened his mouth, but could not answer.
“If you don’t answer, then I’ll tell you...” Helen continued. “You believe everything that they tell you, they told you...” Helen laughed, “that Dolokhov is my lover,” she said in French, with her rough precision of speech, pronouncing the word “lover” like any other word, “and you believed ! But what did you prove with this? What did you prove with this duel! That you are a fool, que vous etes un sot, [that you are a fool] everyone knew that! Where will this lead? So that I become the laughing stock of all Moscow; so that everyone will say that you, drunk and unconscious, challenged to a duel a man whom you are unreasonably jealous of,” Helen raised her voice more and more and became animated, “who is better than you in all respects...
“Hm... hm...” Pierre mumbled, wincing, not looking at her and not moving a single member.
- And why could you believe that he is my lover?... Why? Because I love his company? If you were smarter and nicer, I would prefer yours.
“Don’t talk to me... I beg you,” Pierre whispered hoarsely.
- Why shouldn’t I tell you! “I can speak and will boldly say that it is a rare wife who, with a husband like you, would not take lovers (des amants), but I did not,” she said. Pierre wanted to say something, looked at her with strange eyes, the expression of which she did not understand, and lay down again. He was physically suffering at that moment: his chest was tight, and he could not breathe. He knew that he needed to do something to stop this suffering, but what he wanted to do was too scary.
“It’s better for us to part,” he said falteringly.
“Part up, if you please, only if you give me a fortune,” said Helen... Separate, that’s what scared me!
Pierre jumped up from the sofa and staggered towards her.
- I'll kill you! - he shouted, and grabbing a marble board from the table, with a force still unknown to him, he took a step towards it and swung at it.
Helen's face became scary: she squealed and jumped away from him. His father's breed affected him. Pierre felt the fascination and charm of rage. He threw the board, broke it and, with open arms, approaching Helen, shouted: “Get out!!” in such a terrible voice that the whole house heard this scream with horror. God knows what Pierre would have done at that moment if
Helen did not run out of the room.
A week later, Pierre gave his wife power of attorney to manage all the Great Russian estates, which amounted to more than half of his fortune, and alone he left for St. Petersburg.
Two months passed after receiving news in Bald Mountains about the Battle of Austerlitz and the death of Prince Andrei, and despite all the letters through the embassy and all the searches, his body was not found, and he was not among the prisoners. The worst thing for his relatives was that there was still hope that he had been raised by the inhabitants on the battlefield, and perhaps was lying recovering or dying somewhere alone, among strangers, and unable to give news of himself. In the newspapers, from which the old prince first learned about the defeat of Austerlitz, it was written, as always, very briefly and vaguely, that the Russians, after brilliant battles, had to retreat and carried out the retreat in perfect order. The old prince understood from this official news that ours were defeated. A week after the newspaper brought news of the Battle of Austerlitz, a letter arrived from Kutuzov, who informed the prince of the fate that befell his son.
"Whydah Gally"
Whydah Gally was the flagship of the pirate "Black Sam" Bellamy. The three-masted sailing ship, 31 meters long (about 105 feet), displacing 300 tons and speeding up to 13 knots (14.95 mph), was launched in 1715 in London and was used for the transatlantic slave trade.
Wajda walked along the so-called “triangle”: London - Africa - America, transporting goods from England in exchange for slaves from West Africa. The slaves sailed on it for only three months, which was a very short period of time that allowed most of them to be transported alive.
Whydah sailed with slaves to the Caribbean, where he received precious metals, sugar, indigo and medicinal plants in exchange for them, which he then transported to England.
Whydah had one of the most advanced weapons systems of the time. It was equipped with 28 cannons that fired at a distance of up to a kilometer. At the end of February 1717, Whydah, under the command of Prince Captain Lawrence, was between Cuba and Haiti when it was attacked by pirates led by “Black Sam” - Bellamy. During the capture of the ship, Bellamy was in possession of the ship - Sultan and the sloop Marianne. After After a three-day chase, Prince Lawrence surrendered his ship near the Bahamas, capitulating after an exchange of cannon fire.
Bellamy decided to take Whydah as his new flagship. Some of the ship's crew did not part with their ship and joined the pirates. As a gesture of goodwill towards the captain, who surrendered without a fight, Bellamy gave him his ship Sultan, along with 20 pounds sterling in silver and gold. The Whydah was equipped with 10 additional cannons and, with a new captain and 150 crew, he and Bellamy sailed to the Carolinas and headed north along the east coast of the American colonies, plundering and capturing ships along the way.
Some legends say that Bellamy wanted to visit his mistress, Maria Hallett, who lived near Cape Cod, while others blame the navigator's mistake. In any case, on April 26, 1717, Whydah was sailing in a severe storm dangerously close to Cape Cod.
The ship was thrown onto the sandbank. The mainmast burst, pulling the ship which, as a result, capsized and quickly broke into pieces. By morning, 102 pirate corpses had washed ashore and hundreds of Cape Cod residents were looting the remains of the shipwreck. Of the 144 crew members, only two survived.
Only nine members of Bellamy's two ships survived the storm. In October 1717, six of them were tried and hanged in Boston three weeks before King George officially pardoned all pirates. Two of the surviving members of Whyde's crew were released, and one was sold into slavery before trial.
According to surviving crew members, Bellamy's ship contained between four and a half to five tons of silver, gold, gold dust and jewelry, which were stored in bags and chests in the ship's hold. Although the location of the shipwreck was known, little of this enormous treasure was salvaged.
The treasure was found only in 1984 - almost three hundred years later by American researcher Barry Clifford. Bellamy's ship was the first pirate ship found with such a huge cargo of jewelry. 4.5 tons of treasures and artifacts were recovered from the bottom of the sea. Among them is the Wajda bell, which was a symbol of equality and hung on the bow of the ship.
National Geographic and Arts and Exhibitions International (AEI) LLC has opened the world's first exhibit of authentic pirate treasure, "Real Pirates," containing more than 200 artifacts from the first fully authentic pirate ship ever discovered in American waters. She visited 10 American cities.
It tells the true story of the Whydah, a pirate ship that sank off the coast of Cape Cod nearly 300 years ago. Behind the display cases, visitors will see treasure chests of gold coins, jewelry, cannons, pistols, knives and a life-size replica of the ship's stern.
The exhibition features authentic pirate clothing, items and objects used daily on the ship, weapons, jewelry and treasures from around the world, including authentic coins that visitors can touch. One of the most striking exhibits is the ship's bell, with the inscription "Whydah Galley 1716", which reliably indicates the authenticity of the Whydah shipwreck.
