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who's been supplanted by notorious Blackbeard himself. Also on the ship is Edwina Mansfield, seemingly a damsel in distress, to whom there's much more than meets the eye.

forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane).

He wasn’t born Baby Blackbeard – his real name was Edward Teach. 3. Who’s afraid of big bad Blackbeard? Some historians argue that there is little evidence that Blackbeard was a particularly ...