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The story of the incident was reported in the 2010 book A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Stephan Talty and Captain Richard Phillips, who had been master of the vessel at the time of the incident. The hijacking also inspired the 2013 film Captain Phillips.
One of the most notorious of the pirates, Edward Teach, better known as âBlackbeard,â was a frequent visitor to North Carolina and it was here, in November 1718, that he was captured and killed. Edward Teach was from Bristol, England, a town on the Avon River in southwest England, which produced many pirates. Teach served on a privateer during Queen Anneâs War (1701â1714). Privateering was, in a sense, legalized piracy.