{"id":345779,"date":"2026-06-04T22:21:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=345779"},"modified":"2026-06-04T22:21:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:51:52","slug":"shipwrecks-discovered-from-golden-age-of-piracy-in-18th-century-bahamas-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/shipwrecks-discovered-from-golden-age-of-piracy-in-18th-century-bahamas-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipwrecks discovered from \u2018Golden Age of Piracy\u2019 in 18th century Bahamas &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Deep under the glimmering waters of the Bahamas, a fleet of shipwrecks linked to 18th-century pirates from the \u201cGolden Age of Piracy\u201d has been discovered by a team of archaeologists and filmmakers, marking the primary time the sites have ever been explored.<\/p>\n<p>In a breakthrough that evokes the adventures of the famous <em>Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em> film franchise, the Recent Windfall Pirates Expedition, helmed by marine archaeologist and project co-director Sean Kingsley, dived to latest depths in a previously inaccessible area of Nassau Harbour, unearthing artifacts that provided a wealth of insight into the livelihoods of real-life pirates within the region.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"tp_video_miniplayer\">\n<section id=\"miniplayer_6a21ab9a68e9f-carousel\" class=\"l-videoCarousel l-videoCarousel--embed c-carousel\" data-video-carousel-play-inline=\"true\" data-video-carousel-init=\"false\" aria-label=\"Video carousel contains 5 videos.\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__inner\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__featured\">\n<div class=\"c-video c-videoPlay \" data-iframe-receiver=\"\" data-autoplay=\"\" data-displayinline-featured=\"true\" data-displayinline-type=\"video\" data-displayinline-player-id=\"miniplayer_6a21ab9a68e9f\" data-displayinline-video-id=\"11727182\" 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In keeping with Kingsley, the team\u2019s discoveries revealed that the pirate settlement resembled \u201ca mixture of a cowboy frontier and an 18th-century holiday camp,\u201d fairly than the pirate imagery often portrayed in popular culture.<\/p>\n<p>In 1718, Woodes Rogers, then the governor of Recent Windfall, noted the presence of 40 shipwrecks on Nassau\u2019s shore, in response to the expedition, but none were ever touched until now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get breaking National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox because it happens so you will not miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDue to Hollywood, everyone loves the legend,\u201d Kingsley said in an announcement shared with Global News, \u201cbut beyond the fantasy, no one knows how these sea dogs really lived, what their \u2018Piratetown\u2019 looked like and what happened to the vehicles of their mayhem, wood ships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rough, shark-infested seas and regular rip tides make venturing all the way down to the shipwrecks an arduous task, and a \u201cdangerous expedition with high probabilities of finding nothing,\u201d explorer and project filmmaker Chris Atkins said within the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Through a series of dives in and around Nassau, and with guidance from local divers, six wrecks were discovered, together with iron cannons, a grinding stone for sharpening swords and lead musket balls, just 35 kilometres east of Nassau, the expedition crew confirmed, which added that it was helped along by excellent visibility and \u201ccrystal clear\u201d waters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"caption\">\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable\">\n<div class=\"c-figure__inner\"><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption c-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tA stone sharpener discovered throughout the exploration of pirate ship wrecks off the coast of Nassau.\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"c-caption__cite\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tSean Kingsley\/ The Recent Windfall Pirates Expedition\t\t\t\t<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Trending<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe entire wreck was laid out before us,\u201d project co-director Michael Pateman said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe ship was heavily armed, especially with swivel guns, the cannon of alternative for pirates. Slotted onto deck rails, these anti-personnel weapons raked devastating fire on enemy crews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contained in the harbour, the team discovered a stone ballast pile still pinning down its charred wood hull, he continued. The ship\u2019s planks and frames were connected by wood treenails, in typical 18th-century shipbuilding style, he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter seizing a ship and taking its cargo, cannon and fittings, pirates needed to do away with all signs of their crime. Burning ships to the waterline was an infamous tactic to cover a felony from authorities,\u201d Pateman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nassau hull shows all of the signs of pirate mischief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One other wreck, positioned beneath an old bridge, revealed hull planks, rigging, glass bottles and bricks from the vessel\u2019s galley.<\/p>\n<p>The team also unearthed dozens of clay tobacco pipes decorated with unicorns, horses and crowns, which Pateman identified because the royal crest of England, together with wood shipping crates. Their preservation was \u201ca miracle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"caption\">\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable\">\n<div class=\"c-figure__inner\"><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption c-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tTobacco pipes discovered on a pirate shipwreck off the coast of Nassau.\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"c-caption__cite\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tSean Kingsley\/ The Recent Windfall Pirates Expedition\t\t\t\t<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The discoveries were documented for a series produced by Kingsley and Atkins for Wreckwatch TV, together with a historically accurate 3D digital model of Nassau\u2019s Piratetown around 1715.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&#038;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep under the glimmering waters of the Bahamas, a fleet of shipwrecks linked to 18th-century pirates from the \u201cGolden Age of Piracy\u201d has been discovered by a team of archaeologists and filmmakers, marking the primary time the sites have ever been explored. 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