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The wreckage of the ship "Ouida" was discovered in 1984 at Cape Cod Peninsula (USA, Massachusetts). But at the end of January 2021 divers, examining his remains, discovered something very interesting.





Sensational news instantly spread through the communities admirers of maritime mysteries: divers have found a large piece of fused into one a whole of artifacts and the remains of six members of the ship's crew.

The frigate "Ouida" has always attracted sea explorers. depths. Sam Bellamy (1689 - 1717) was the captain of the Ouida. He was one of the brightest representatives of the "Golden Age of Pirates" and especially actively operated from 1716. Just after the end of the war for Spanish heritage.



Sailing ship

Pirate was born in 1689 in England. He studied maritime Royal Navy and took part in several battles. Start it pirate career was quite romantic: the whole thing was love. In 1715 year he arrived in Cape Cod, where he fell in love with a girl and needed to dial the right amount of money for the wedding. Robbery has become the easiest and fastest way to get them.

Fame came to him when, in 1717, Bellamy captured the frigate "Ouida", which, by the way, was built specifically for transportation of slaves. But there were no slaves on it then, but there were 180 bags ivory (approximately £20,000 - £30,000) and gold. This "fat" would be enough for a wedding and the beginning of a happy family life. "Black Sam" joyfully headed to Cape Cod to his beloved. And How as soon as the shore appeared, the loaded ship fell into a storm and washed ashore. The Ouida capsized and sank. Bellamy and 146 more team members died. Only two survived.





Barry Clifford with found treasures

So the pirate, whose career lasted a little over a year, finished his journey. In such a short time, Black Sam captured 53 ship, and received such a gloomy nickname because he did not wear fashionable at that time time white wig, tying her black hair with a ribbon.

He plundered ships under the usual flag with the Jolly Roger. Sam had a reputation as the Robin Hood of the Seas. He allegedly was very merciful with captured sailors. For this he was also given the nickname Prince. pirates.



Concretion found on Ouida

The sunken ship was discovered in 1984. Barry Clifford, well-known treasure hunter, attached to this a lot of effort.

The wreckage of the Ouida lay rather heaped up and not very deep - under four meters of water and 1.5 meters of sand. Work is still in progress and about 200,000 items have already been discovered. Among them are 60 guns. And 28 of them were in service with the frigate, and all the rest were stored in the holds. It is possible that Bellamy used them as ballast, but that's just it was they who ruined the Ouida - when the ship capsized, they weight just tore the body.



This is what "Black Sam" could have looked like

It is known that out of 146 people only two survived. 103 bodies were washed ashore by the wave, and 41 people were missing. AND here, not so long ago, divers found the remains of six more. This find gave the opportunity to identify among them the famous Black Sam, since scientists have the DNA of one of his relatives.