Pirate Quest: #3 Black Sam Mystery Cache

Welcome to the Pirate Quest!  This short series will teach you a little bit about Pirates and have some fun along the way while you do it.  So grab your parrot,  tune up your best Pirate voice,  fuel up your ship and set your sails.

There are 7 geocaches in this Series.  Each one will consist of a puzzle that you will need to complete to find the final coordinates.  We are going to treat each cache as a Ship.  With each cache you find,  you will treat that as a Ship that you have overtaken from that Pirate.  Can you overtake all 7 ships and become King/Queen of the Seas?

Now, I do have one little rule,  so in the spirit of this Quest, I will ask that as you find each cache,  you yell out "AAARRRGG!" in your best Pirate voice and that your online logs be in your best Pirate lingo. Ready to have some fun, Matey?!?

Black Sam

(born Samuel Bellamy, also known as the "Prince of Pirates")

Bellamy sailed off the eastern coast of North America on the Whydah. Originally part of Benjamin Hornigold and Edward Teach’s (Blackbeard's) crew aboard the Mary Anne, Bellamy rose to captain and soon gained fortune when he captured the ship Whydah, a gigantic slave ship carrying riches on its second leg in the Atlantic. Bellamy attempted to sail the ship back to a lover he left in New England but never made it, sinking off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts during a violent storm.

Quick Facts:

• Born: February 23, 1689  Hittisleigh, Devon, England

• Died: April 26, 1717  Wellfleet, Massachusetts

• Pirate Nickname: Black Sam or Prince of Pirates

• Rank: Elected Commodore of pirate fleet

• Active: from 1716–April 26, 1717

• Base of Operations: Blanco Islet, Tortola B.V.I. (later re-named Bellamy Cay), Caribbean Sea

• Commands:  Postillion, Sloop Marianne, Pinque Mary Anne, Sultana Galley, Whydah Galley, Anne, Fisher

• Wealth:  Equiv. US$136.6 million in 2017; #1 Forbes top-earning pirates

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