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Queen Anne's Revenge

A topic by Razormix created Feb 26, 2024 Views: 296 Replies: 7
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Hello, 

i have a question about ERAS II. I am currently playing as Edward Teach and he has for flagship the Queen Anne's Revenge. The problem is, according to historical sources this ship was a Frigate, but in the game is only a small ship. Why is that?

Historically, the Queen Anne's Revenge was modified by "BlackBeard" from his captured "La Concorde", a French slave ship, which was a 200-ton ship armed with sixteen cannon and had a crew of seventy-five. The modeling ERAS II used is based on the real ship. The bigger "Queen Anne's Revenge" is in the movie, which is modified to make it impressive. 

Historically the isn't a model of the ship so we don't really know how it looked. We know of course what you said, the fact that it was a french slave ship, so we can only speculate it could be similar to other french slave ship of that era.

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The shipwreck of  the Queen Anne's Revenge has been found and confirmed at somewhere close to the outer banks of North Carolina. If I am not wrong, the North Carolina Maritime Museum involves in a  Queen Anne's Revenge project, which disclosed  and rebuilt the the ship model. You can check it on web.

One more point, the main modification work "BlackBeard" done was put more cannon in slave deck, which means he made lower storage deck into cannon deck to get more firepower. So some sources may mention the Queen Anne's Revenge has 38 to 40 cannon.  Pirates at that age didn't have capability to make a ship bigger.

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You see, that's exactly where i am going. How is possible that a ship that small have had 40 cannons? It must have been a bigger ship, like a Frigate for example. You say that pirates didn't have the capability to make a ship bigger, yes, but they had the ability to seize them. Also, we know the term frigate varied in history so it could be argued that that ship was indeed a frigate, just smaller than later era frigate. my question was of course about the in-game model, which in my humble opinion is a bit small that the real allegedly Queen Anne's Revenge. Thanks for the answer btw.

38-40 cannon is definitely not a big ship. Let's make a simple caculation. 2 for stern, 2 for bow, one level cannon deck 6 for port and starboard, this makes a total 16 cannon.  This looks reasonable layout of the  original Franch slave ship. "Blackbeard" caught it, and the historical source says he likes it because its speed and maneuverability. The slave ship has a lower deck to captive slaves, pls be noticed the lower doesn't mean the deck is below the sea level. So make "slave deck" into a canon deck is not tough. Let's say stern and bow remain 4 cannon total, 18 cannon on each deck for port and starboard, which makes a total 40 cannon warship. The key is the Queen Anne's Revenge has never been a frigate. 

Now i understand better what are you saying. I can see how that ship can be fitted with that number of cannons, so why the ingame ship have only 16 cannons since i am playing as Edward Teach? 

Also i can say that a french 4 rate of that era had by average 40 cannons so it is not a small number either.

Thanks again for you kind answers.