Treasure recovered from the wreck of the Whydah Gally, the only fully authenticated Golden Age pirate shipwreck ever discovered. The ship sank in 1717 killing nearly all of its 150-person crew, including its captain Bellamy.

During his career, Bellamy, who fashioned himself as the ‘Robin Hood of the Sea,’ captured more than 50 ships, according to the New England Historical Society. He was only 28 when the ship sank.

Before beginning his career of pillage and plunder, Bellamy first sailed to Cape Cod in 1714 or early 1715. There, he met and impregnated 15-year-old Maria Hallett, according to the New England Historical Society. He then traveled to Florida in search of treasure and then turned to piracy, the society said.

Whydah Gally – a British slave ship that was captured by the infamous ‘Black Sam’ Bellamy – broke apart the trove of coins and other treasure poured from the stern as the ship broke up and the stern drifted away after the ship went down in a gale force storm on April 26, 1717.

Bellamy and his crew of 143 pirates went down with the ship. Only two survivors lived to tell the tale. Bellamy didn’t captain the ship for long, though, as it sank on the evening of1717 and became part of Cape Cod legend, according to the National Park Service.

The infamous Whydah Gally taking with it a massive booty. The ship was said to have had four and a half tons of gold and silver on board, and Bellamy was believed to have been the world’s richest pirate, with a fortune worth an estimated $120 million in modern dollars. The wreck was found in 1984, but not all its treasure.

Archeologist Andrew Barker quickly found that the matter, known scientifically as a concretion, held coins from Peru, gold and possibly gemstones.