This early 16th century cast iron, breech-loading cannon is the only one of its kind in Wales. It is designed to be carried on a ship of war and fired through a gun port on the side of the hull. Gun ...

Old-timey pirates are typically portrayed as stupid, unrefined thugs whose only interests involved plundering captured ships and forcing enemies to walk the plank. The recent discovery of legible text ...

Archaeologists will exhume the 8-foot-long cannon from Blackbeard's ship. Oct. 26, 2011— -- Archaeologists lifted a 300-year-old cannon from the pirate Blackbeard's ship off the coast of North ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Dead men tell no tales, but there's new evidence that somebody aboard the pirate Blackbeard's flagship harbored books among the booty. In an unusual find, researchers have ...

A Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System launcher deploys into position aboard Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii, Aug. 16, 2021. (Maj. Nick Mannweiler/Marine Corps) ...