Queen Anne's Revenge

Hornigold returned with his sloop to Providence, where, at the arrival of Captain Rogers, the governor, he surrendered to mercy pursuant to the king's proclamation.

Aboard of this guinea-man, Teach mounted forty guns and named her the Queen Anne's Revenge and, cruising near the island of St. Vincent, took a large ship called the Great Allen, Christopher Taylor commander.

The pirates plundered her of what they thought fit, put all the men ashore upon the island above mentioned, and set fire to the ship.

A few days after, Teach fell in with the Scarborough, man of war, of thirty guns, who engaged him for some hours.

Teach goes up to the governor of North Carolina with about twenty of his men, and they surrender to his majesty's proclamation and receive certificates thereof from his excellency.

But it did not appear that their submitting to this pardon was from any reformation of manners, but only to await a more favorable opportunity to play the same game over again, which he soon after effected, with greater security to himself, and with much better prospect of success, having in this time cultivated a very good understanding with Charles Eden, Esquire, the governor above mentioned.

The first piece of service this kind governor did to Blackbeard was to give him a right to the vessel which he had taken when he was a pirating in the great ship called the Queen Anne's Revenge, for which purpose a court of vice-admiralty was held at Bath Town, and, though Teach had never any commission in his life, and the sloop belonging to the English merchants and taken in time of peace, yet was she condemned as a prize taken from the Spaniards by the said Teach.

These proceedings show that governors are but men.

Is it...

The Queen Anne's Revenge, The Mary Ellen Carter, The Mayflower, or The Flying Dutchman?

I reserve all my jokes until we continue.

I wish I could change my answer.

I'm really special.

Boring Dutchman.

I really thought for a moment it was the Queen Anne's Revenge.

It does sound like a good ghost

But Teach went about his business as an independent pirate now.

The vessel in which he sailed was fitted with 40 guns and he named her the Queen Anne's Revenge and he began rapidly to accumulate wealth.

One day while cruising near the island of St. Vincent he captured a large vessel called the Great Allen, pillaged her of what he fancied and then set her on fire.

Only a few days later the Scarborough man of war hove in sight and for several hours the two ships engaged.

The former recognized that Teach was a pirate and he was endeavoring to conquer him.

But it is a fact that after a time the Scarborough, seeing she was not a match for the Queen Anne's Revenge, deemed it better to retire from the contest, thus allowing Teach to resume his piratical profession.

He next found himself encountering a sloop which was commanded by a Major Bonnet and Teach and Bonnet agreed to throw in their lot together.

But as Blackbeard soon saw that Bonnet was inexperienced in naval matters, the former gave the command of the sloop to one of the crew named Richards, whilst Bonnet transferred to the larger ship, and then the two craft went roaming over the seas with singular success.

I now have your ship, which has been remodeled to be my ship.

And Blackbeard renames this new fighting ship the Queen Anne's Revenge.

Queen Anne being a queen in England who had presided over the Union of England and Scotland in 1707.

So she's very much a contemporary monarch of the period.

So this door is closing and Blackbeard and his men are going to have to make a new plan.

Now the second problem that Blackbeard has is the problem of too much success.

Remember that his amazing pirate flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, is a pretty conspicuous vessel.

And while it's great for overtaking ships, it's a great target for the Royal Navy.

Hornigold returned with his sloop to Providence, where, at the arrival of Captain Rogers, the governor, he surrendered to mercy pursuant to the king's proclamation.

Aboard of this guinea-man, Teach mounted 40 guns and named her the Queen Anne's Revenge and, cruising near the island of St. Vincent, took a large ship called the Great Allen, Christopher Taylor, commander.

The pirates plundered her of what they thought fit, put all the men ashore upon the island above mentioned, and set fire to the ship.

A few days after, Teach fell in with the Scarborough, man of war, of 30 guns, who engaged him for some hours.

Teach goes up to the Governor of North Carolina with about twenty of his men, and they surrender to his Majesty's proclamation, and receive certificates thereof from his Excellency.

But it did not appear that their submitting to this pardon was from any reformation of manners, but only to await a more favorable opportunity to play the same game over again, which he soon after effected, with greater security to himself, and with much better prospect of success, having in this time cultivated a very good understanding with Charles Eden, Esquire, the Governor above mentioned.

The first piece of service this kind Governor did to Blackbeard was to give him a right to the vessel which he had taken when he was a-pirating in the great ship called the Queen Anne's Revenge, for which purpose a court of vice-admiralty was held at Bath Town, and, though Teach had never any commission in his life, and the sloop belonging to the English merchants, and taken in time of peace, yet was she condemned as a prize taken from the Spaniards by the said Teach.

These proceedings show that governors are but men.

Hornigold returned with his sloop to Providence, where, at the arrival of Captain Rogers, the governor, he surrendered to mercy, pursuant to the king's proclamation.

Aboard of this guinea-man, Teach mounted 40 guns, and named her the Queen Anne's Revenge, and cruising near the island of St. Vincent, took a large ship called the Great Allen, Christopher Taylor, commander.

The pirates plundered her of what they thought fit, put all the men ashore upon the island above mentioned, and set fire to the ship.

A few days after, Teach fell in with the Scarborough, man of war, of 30 guns, who engaged him for some hours.

Teach goes up to the governor of North Carolina with about twenty of his men, and they surrender to his majesty's proclamation and receive certificates thereof from his excellency.

But it did not appear that their submitting to this pardon was from any reformation of manners, but only to await a more favorable opportunity to play the same game over again, which he soon after effected, with greater security to himself, and with much better prospect of success, having in this time cultivated a very good understanding with Charles Eden, Esquire, the governor above mentioned.

The first piece of service this kind governor did to Blackbeard was to give him a right to the vessel which he had taken when he was a-pirating in the great ship called the Queen Anne's Revenge, for which purpose a court of vice-admiralty was held at Bath Town, and, though Teach had never any commission in his life, and the sloop belonging to the English merchants and taken in time of peace, yet was she condemned as a prize taken from the Spaniards by the said Teach.

These proceedings show that governors are but men.

But here's my favorite one because we talk about this once a week.

The Queen Anne's Revenge.

Oh,

that's where I left the money.

Yeah, a couple of those were recycled, but most of them were new, and sometimes you want to build a scenario around an idea.

Like, one of those in there is how do we make a game for three players, okay? This is Hornigold and Blackbeard attacking the La Concorde, right? Uh, so that-

that-was conceived out of trying to build a game that works really well for three players 'cause that's a thing that happens a good bit with a smaller gaming community at a local store.

So there's lots of ways to start, but you kinda have to know enough history to kind of find the history that works for the idea you want.