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Whydah Gally

A slave ship captured by the pirate Samuel Bellamy in 1717 and wrecked in a storm off Cape Cod on 26 April 1717. Found in 1984 and identified by her bell, inscribed with her name, she is the only fully authenticated pirate shipwreck of the Golden Age of Piracy.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1716 CE mainstream
  early 1716: the new Whydah Gally, commissioned in London by the slave merchant Sir Humphrey Morice, sails on her maiden voyage in the Atlantic slave trade source
• 1717 CE mainstream
  late February: Samuel Bellamy's pirates capture her in the Windward Passage; on 26 April she is wrecked in a nor'easter off Cape Cod, and only two of her crew survive source
• 1984 CE mainstream
  Barry Clifford finds the wreck, using Cyprian Southack's 1717 map of the wreck site source
• 1985 CE mainstream
  the ship's bell is recovered, inscribed THE WHYDAH GALLY 1716, which authenticates the wreck source

Where

41.8920° N, 69.9594° W

The point is Wikipedia's position for the wreck off Marconi Beach, Wellfleet, Cape Cod; the wreckage is spread for four miles along the coast.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whydah_Gally

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