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Captain Morgan’s Ship Found by Helen Stringer There are pirates and there are pirates…and then there’s Captain Morgan. He was the pirate’s pirate, the man who led the swashbuckling, buccaneering life in exactly the way that would have made Erroll Flynn proud. And he managed to die in bed. Not bad. On Friday Klaus Keppler, a German treasure hunter, anounced that he and his team had found the wreck of Morgan’s ship, the Jamaica Merchant, lying just off the coast of Haiti. If true, it would be one of the major finds of nautical archaeology, ranking with the discovery of the Titanic. Keppler claims that they are “98% sure” that it is Morgan’s ship. The vessel was a cargo ship which Morgan took as his command following the sinking of his flagship, the Oxford, which sank as the result of an explosion during a party on board. No-one ever said that Morgan didn’t know how to have a good time. The Jamaica sank in the 1670s or 1680s near L’Ile a Vache off the coast of Haiti. The area is prone t
