QMR Black Bellamy Traditional Cache
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QMR - The Quest for Morgan's Rum
A pirate career spanning less than a year Samuel Bellamy, otherwise known as Black Sam was a formidable pirate in the Golden Age of Piracy plundering at least 50 ships. Tall and tidy, Bellamy wore expensive clothes and grew long black hair banded in the back. He was a democratic captain who wore four dueling pistols. Yet due to his mercy and generosity toward captives he gained a second nickname, "Prince of Pirates" and his crew called themselves "Robin Hood's Band."
The pinnacle of Black Sam's career was when a three day chase led to the seizure of the slave ship The Whydah Galley, a three mast 300-ton vessel, on route to Jamaica hauling ivory, gold and silver worth at least 20,000 pounds, perhaps 30,000 pounds. Making the Whydah his flagship, Bellamy gave the Sultana to the captured captain and crew of the Whydah. With a rich booty, Bellamy headed north perhaps to reunite with Maria but his luck had run out. A fierce storm sunk the Whydah on a sandbar near Wellfleet, Massachusetts on April 26, 1717 taking Bellamy and most of his 146 crew with him. Of the eight survivors - six were executed and two were acquitted. The history of Samuel Bellamy was told by Thomas Davis, a Welsh carpenter, who was one of the survivors of the Whydah and acquitted of the charges against him.
Many thanks to Mandarin Lake for placing the original cache.
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