Queen Anne's Revenge Wreck Gold — Beaufort Inlet

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Queen Anne's Revenge Wreck Gold — Beaufort Inlet

Lost Treasure NC • Carteret County County
Description
Beaufort Inlet legend of unrecovered loot from Blackbeard's flagship Queen Anne's Revenge — run aground in 1718 and rediscovered in 1996 with 420,000 artifacts but persistent tales of missing chests.
Historical Notes
Blackbeard's former French slaver La Concorde, renamed Queen Anne's Revenge, grounded near Beaufort Inlet in June 1718. He stripped the wreck and transferred loot to the smaller Adventure before the Maynard battle. Intersal Inc. discovered the wreck in 1996; the NC Maritime Museum in Beaufort displays cannons and fittings. Folklore holds that chests offloaded before the grounding were buried on Bogue Banks or carried to Ocracoke. Topsail and Sea Vista motel traditions tie the wreck to regional pirate-gold hunts along the central Carolina coast.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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