Back in October, members of The Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project raised a grapnel (seen in the foreground to the right) from the wreck of Blackbeard’s ship. I dropped an e-mail to the Project asking if data from an experiment measuring iron corrosion on another anchor influenced the decision to raise the grapnel now.
Wendy Welsh, QAR Conservator, kindly responded:
Actually the data from the in situ monitoring project did not influence our decision to raise the grapnel anchor. The grapnel anchor was loose from the main ballast pile and to avoid further impacts from strong storm currents the decision was made to recover the anchor. A report about our week long field expedition will be posted on our home page soon.
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Photo from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources Rick Allen, Nautilus Productions.
