The Treasure of Captain William Kidd.

[chub]

Maybe it is the number for a psychic hotline?

 

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[Randawg72]

Impossible. Phone numbers typically consist of at least 10 digits. 😁

 

[Bocaj]

Supposedly when Captain Kidd was in jail awaiting trial, he slipped a small note to his wife Sarah with the numbers "44106818" written on it. Some think that these numbers are a clue to the location of Kidd's hidden treasure.
Are they a secret code, or coordinates (some think it's Deer Island), or do these numbers have some other meaning? Or do you think (like me) that the story of the coded note is just a made up myth?

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Source of this information?

 

[Randawg72]

Hi Bocaj,
It's referenced in many places including on this website. (Google "Captain Kidd 44106818").
The pic that I swiped is from America Unearthed, S3, E6. "Captain Kidd's Pirate Code".

 

[Bocaj]

Hi Bocaj,
It's referenced in many places including on this website. (Google "Captain Kidd 44106818").
The pic that I swiped is from America Unearthed, S3, E6. "Captain Kidd's Pirate Code".

Deer island coordinates, Certainly done much later as Kidd would have used a different zero meridian than the modern Greenwich.

Centuries of all kind of myths, hoax and books have muddied the real story so much that anyone trying to find the truth has to walk very carefully and its better to stay away from rather murky claims like that number.

 

[Randawg72]

Deer island coordinates, Certainly done much later as Kidd would have used a different zero meridian than the modern Greenwich.

What meridian do you think Kidd used? The Royal Observatory at Greenwich was established in 1675, and has been the official prime meridian in the UK since 1721.

 

[Bocaj]

What meridian do you think Kidd used? The Royal Observatory at Greenwich was established in 1675, and has been the official prime meridian in the UK since 1721.

Certainly not Greenwich, most probably Tenerife, Canary Islands. In any case it depends more on what nautical chart he used. So for different places he could have used different prime meridians. It was quite a chaos those days and as I said it was rather depended on the charts he acquired then on his own preferences.

All longitudes from those days are to be taken with a lot of caution. Latitudes to a lesser degree as they have always been fixed to the equator (axis of earth rotation) and that doesn't change. When close or on land coordinates are most probably measured relative to the used charts and can be quite off depending how old and good the chart he used was. Also those days most charts used 0-360deg all to E, not 0-180deg E or W!

There is lot more to study of the old days navigation until even getting a vague idea how different the world appeared tin the 17th century to what it is now. Frankly its not just study from books but sailing and navigating like them. Then maybe there is a chance to discover the truth of Kidd's treasure.