"Salazar and saving the crew during battle. Years later the ""Wicked Wench"" became registered to the East India Trading Co. and owned by Cutler Beckett, the EITC Director for West Africa. At the time, Jack Sparrow was in the employ of the East India Trading Co. and regained captaincy of the ""Wicked Wench"" (this fits in with reality as history notes that pirates did not build ships specifically to commit piracy. Instead, they either bought or stole small, fast vessels, then retrofitted them with heavy armaments). Jack Sparrow captained the ""Wicked Wench"" for Cutler Beckett for about a year, hauling"
"White Ship The White Ship (real name: , Latin documents ) was a vessel that sank in the English Channel near the Normandy coast off Barfleur, on 25 November 1120. Only one of those aboard survived. Those who drowned included William Adelin, the only legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England, his half-sister Matilda, his half-brother Richard and also Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester. William Adelin's death led to a succession crisis and a period of civil war in England known as the Anarchy. The ""White Ship"" was a newly refitted vessel captained by Thomas FitzStephen"
"by Captain White. (available online at internet archive ) Blackadder (clipper) Blackadder was a clipper ship, a sister ship to ""Hallowe'en"", built in 1870 by Maudslay, Sons & Field at Greenwich for Jock Willis & Sons. ""Blackadder"" was dismasted on her maiden voyage due to failures in the mast fittings and rigging. She ""was able to reach the Cape under jury rig 63 days out."" John Willis took legal action against the builders which dragged on to such an extent that her sister ship, ""Hallowe'en"", was not handed over to Willis until nearly 18 months after her launch. After John"
"in the Bahamas for Beckett's superior Viscount Penwallow. On voyage, Sparrow discovered the cargo was slaves and set them free on the island of Kerma off the west coast of Africa. Beckett became enraged upon learning Sparrow's deed. Beckett ordered the ""Wicked Wench"" sunk and branded Sparrow a pirate. Beckett claims in """" that Sparrow also left a mark on him. In the first movie, Commodore Norrington reveals a ""P"" branded on Jack's arm, saying Jack has had a run-in with the EITC. When William Turner asks Beckett what mark Sparrow left on him, Beckett merely changes the subject. Whatever"
"Lyon's Whelp Lyon's Whelp or Lion's Whelp is the name of a historical British ship. The name was given to a series of 16th-century naval ships, then in the 17th century to a fleet of ten full rigged pinnaces commissioned by the first Duke of Buckingham. The 10 ""Lion's Whelp""s built by the 1st Duke of Buckingham in 1628 are exemplars of the 'war' pinnace, a war ship that was built for several European navies for more than two centuries (c.1550-c.1750). The Whelps had sweeps (propelling oars) as well as sails (G R Balleine, All for the King, The Life"
"Unicorn (ship) The Unicorn () is a fictional 17th-century three-masted armed Royal Navy vessel appearing in ""The Adventures of Tintin"", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The ship plays a leading role in both ""The Secret of the Unicorn"" and ""Red Rackham's Treasure"", published in 1943 and 1944, respectively. The ""Unicorn"" also appears in the 2011 film adaptation """". In the ""Tintin"" adventures, the ""Unicorn"" is the setting of a battle between pirates and sailors followed by a duel between its captain, Sir Francis Haddock (an ancestor of Captain Haddock) and the pirate Red Rackham. The ""Unicorn"" is scuttled"
"a war barque commaded by King Amanhotep, a Tomb King. A Pyramid tomb was constructed in its center and is capable of firing focused beams of sunlight, setting its targets ablaze. It also sports five marble Ushabti with great weapons, and uses catapults instead of cannons. Black Kraken, the monstrous construction of Tordrek Hackhart, a Chaos Dwarf, which has been imbued with the soul of a demon. Tordrek holds a personal grudge against Red Brokk Gunnarsson. Shadewraith, the ghost ship of the ghost captain Vangheist. The Shadewraith is insubstantial and is capable of flying over the waves, thus making it"
"by halitosis, beady black eyes, a pock-marked face, and perpetual filth of his person and surroundings, contrasting strongly with J. M. Barrie's Etonian gentleman. The novel, which takes place before the Captain meets Peter Pan, calls Hook ""Black Stache"" for his prominent moustache, and his ship is called the ""Sea Devil""; he captures the ""Jolly Roger"", originally a British ship called the ""Wasp"", later. Black Stache is renamed 'Captain Hook' in the second instalment, ""Peter and the Shadow Thieves"". In Barry and Pearson's book, his left hand is accidentally cut off by Peter. In Rick Ellis' theatrical adaptation of the"
"Oceanic (unfinished ship) The RMMV ""Oceanic"" (Royal Mail Motor Vessel) was the planned name of an unfinished ocean liner that was partially built by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line. The ship was to have been the first -long ocean liner. It was intended to be the largest ocean liner for the White Star Line, thus it would have been larger than the earlier White Star giants, ""Olympic"", ""Titanic"", ""Britannic"", and ""Majestic."" Several sets of plans for the ship's design were produced by Harland and Wolff for ""Oceanic"" between 1926 and 1930. One set, submitted on January of"
"Albatross (1920 schooner) Albatross, originally named Albatros, later Alk, was a sailing ship that became famous when she sank in 1961 with a group of American teenagers on board. The events were the basis for the highly fictionalized film ""White Squall"". The ""Albatross"" was built as a schooner at the state shipyard in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1920, to serve as a pilot boat in the North Sea. The ship spent two decades working the North Sea before being purchased by the German government in 1937. She served as a radio-station ship for submarines during the Second World War. In 1949,"
"his crew. Stache is very resourceful, capturing the naval ship ""The Wasp"" by using a corset-shaped sail. Black Stache is actually the future Captain Hook - his hand is cut off by Peter near the end of the novel. Little Richard - Little Richard is a short, powerful giant who worked for the ""Never Land"" before becoming Slank's sidekick. Even though he can take Slank easily, Richard obeys his every command and is kicked around like a slave. Slank - William Slank is the evil first-mate and second-in-command of the ship ""The Never Land"". Slank is one of the ""Others"""
"Blackadder (clipper) Blackadder was a clipper ship, a sister ship to ""Hallowe'en"", built in 1870 by Maudslay, Sons & Field at Greenwich for Jock Willis & Sons. ""Blackadder"" was dismasted on her maiden voyage due to failures in the mast fittings and rigging. She ""was able to reach the Cape under jury rig 63 days out."" John Willis took legal action against the builders which dragged on to such an extent that her sister ship, ""Hallowe'en"", was not handed over to Willis until nearly 18 months after her launch. After John Willis died in 1900, ""Blackadder"" was bought by J."
"the novel. Wouk began writing his first novel, Aurora Dawn, while the ""Zane"" was at Tulagi. USS Zane (DD-337) USS ""Zane"" (DD-337/DMS-14/AG-109) was a ""Clemson""-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was named for Randolph Zane. ""Zane"" was laid down on 15 January 1919 at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California; launched on 12 August 1919; sponsored by Miss Marjorie Zane, the daughter of Major R. T. Zane; re-classified DD-337 on 17 July 1920; and commissioned at Mare Island on 15 February 1921, Lieutenant Commander P. Seymour in command. After fitting out and shakedown,"
"dining area on the left side and a jungle setting on the right. The boats pass through a shipwreck and enter an old fortress nearby. Inside the fort, gun noises and swordplay are heard in the back as the boats climb up a large lift hill used to haul cargo throughout the building. At the top, riders are given a brief view of the Wicked Wench pirate ship in the harbor below before entering into the depths of the fort. Inside, flames engulf the fort, and the shadows of fighting pirates and soldiers are seen. Up ahead, riders see the"
"Sail a Crooked Ship Sail a Crooked Ship is a 1961 American black-and-white comedy heist film starring Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Carolyn Jones, Frankie Avalon, Ernie Kovacs and Frank Gorshin. It was directed by Irving Brecher and was based on the novel of the same name by Nathaniel Benchley, published in 1960. ""Sail a Crooked Ship"" was Kovacs' last movie, released shortly before he was killed in a car crash. Hart's other 1961 film, ""Francis of Assisi"", inspired her to retire from acting two years later and become a Roman Catholic nun. When Gilbert Barrows (Robert Wagner) disobeys his boss"
"Wild Cat (boat) The Wild Cat is a fictional green two-masted schooner that Captain Flint, the Swallows, the Amazons and Peter Duck sail to the West Indies in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons book ""Peter Duck"". She also appears in the opening chapters of ""Missee Lee"". The ship would have been about 50 ft (15 m) long. In the book and the illustrations there is no mention of a head. This is typical of Arthur Ransome's reticence on the issue. The name is taken from Wild Cat Island which features in all the books set in the Lake District. She"
"and ""Amazon"" are aboard and used as lifeboats when she sinks. <br> Wild Cat (boat) The Wild Cat is a fictional green two-masted schooner that Captain Flint, the Swallows, the Amazons and Peter Duck sail to the West Indies in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons book ""Peter Duck"". She also appears in the opening chapters of ""Missee Lee"". The ship would have been about 50 ft (15 m) long. In the book and the illustrations there is no mention of a head. This is typical of Arthur Ransome's reticence on the issue. The name is taken from Wild Cat Island"
"on 4 April 2009. USS Water Witch (1851) The third USS ""Water Witch was a wooden-hulled, sidewheel gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She is best known as the ship fired on by Paraguay in 1855. In 1864 she was captured by the Confederate States Navy, and subsequently was taken into that Navy as CSS ""Water Witch. ""Water Witch"" was launched by the Washington Navy Yard in 1851 and was commissioned during the winter of 1852–53, Lieutenant Thomas Jefferson Page in command. On 8 February 1853, the gunboat set sail from Norfolk, Virginia, for an"
"1943/1944. After the war she was taken into British service as ""Ulysses"", then sold back to Germany as ""Fechenheim"" in 1950 before being wrecked off Bergen in 1955. Her hull was scrapped shortly after. She was one of only two German auxiliary cruisers to survive the war, after one 1940 cruise. Her captain, Helmuth von Ruckteschell, was one of only two German naval commanders convicted of war crimes at the end of the war. German auxiliary cruiser Widder ""Widder"" (HSK 3) was an auxiliary cruiser (""Hilfskreuzer"") of Nazi Germany's ""Kriegsmarine"" that was used as a merchant raider in the Second"
"in 1953. The P&O liner SS ""Canberra"" doubled for SS ""Ranchi"" in the final episode of Tenko, the popular BBC TV series about women civilian internees in the Far East in 1984. ""The Blue Lotus,"" fifth volume of the comic book series ""The Adventures of Tintin,"" features an ocean liner named SS Ranchi which operates in Asia. British entertainer Cliff Richard travelled to England aboard the ""Ranchi"" when his family left India in 1948. SS Ranchi The SS ""Ranchi was a British passenger and cargo carrying ocean liner. During World War II she served as an armed merchant cruiser HMS"
"a passing remark that ""Concerning Wade and his bote called Guingelot, and also his strange exploits in the same, because the matter is long and fabulous, I pass it over"" There may have been widespread knowledge of Wade's adventure in his time, but it has not been transmitted to the present day, and Speght's omission has been deplored by subsequent commentators. ""Wingelock"" is Skeat's reconstructed Anglicized form of the boat's name. In the 19th century, three lines from the lost Old English ""Tale of Wade"" was found, quoted in a Latin homily in MS. 255 in the Library of Peterhouse,"
"by court-martial for abandoning the four seaworthy vessels, as were ""Resolute""'s captain, Henry Kellett; ""Intrepid"" 's commander, Francis Leopold McClintock; and ""Pioneer"" 's commander, Sherard Osborn. All were acquitted. Belcher, however, never received another commission and was scorned by the officers of his court-martial when they returned his sword to him in complete silence. ""Resolute"" continued to move slowly eastward in the pack ice, and one year later in the autumn of 1855 she was 1200 miles away from the place where she had been abandoned. In September 1855 an American whaler named James Buddington, from New London, CT saw"
"SS Celtic (1872) SS ""Celtic"" was an ocean liner built for the White Star Line by shipbuilders Harland and Wolff of Belfast. The ""Celtic"" (later the Amerika), the first of two White Star ships to bear the name, was the second of two ""Oceanic""-class liners commissioned by White Star, following the success of their first four steamships (the ""Adriatic"" being the earlier of the new pair). The new ship was originally proposed to be named ""Arctic"", but as the American Collins Line had a paddle-wheel steamer with that name (it sank in 1854) the White Star managers changed their minds,"
"Helbrecht and an entire Crusade of the Black Templars Space Marines, along with Commissar Yarrick. Despite a sizeable headstart the faster, more efficient Imperial Navy warships catch the Ork fleet several weeks after leaving Armageddon. In a dead region of space known as the Haunted Gulf, Ghazghkull’s ships turn at bay for a last, desperate charge into the teeth of the Imperial Navy’s guns. Even as his fleet is torn apart, Ghazghkull stomps around his bridge bellowing orders. The great Warlord is incandescent with fury, possessed of a vision so powerful that green lightning arcs around him. Their brains overwhelmed"
"which were mounted in casemates. The ship was also armed with six submerged torpedo tubes. One tube was mounted in the bow, another in the stern, and two on each broadside, on either end of the torpedo bulkhead. The German Imperial Navy (""Kaiserliche Marine"") ordered ""Westfalen"" under the provisional name ""Ersatz Sachsen"" as a replacement for , the lead ship of the elderly s. The Reichstag secretly approved and provided funds for ""Nassau"" and ""Westfalen"" at the end of March 1906, but construction on ""Westfalen"" was delayed while arms and armor were procured. She was laid down on 12 August"
"HMS Waterwitch (1892) HMS ""Waterwitch"" was a British hydrographic survey vessel active in eastern Asian waters from 1894 to 1912. She was a wooden vessel, purchased from a private owner specifically for survey work. She was lost in a collision in Singapore harbour in 1912. She was built as a private vessel, ""Lancashire Witch "" in 1878 by R. Steel & Co of Greenock to a design by St Clare John Byrne for the owner, Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, 7th Baronet. She was of composite construction, meaning she was built with an iron keel, stem and stern posts, and iron"
"The White Ship (story) ""The White Ship"" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in ""The United Amateur"" (Volume 19) #2, November 1919. Basil Elton, a lighthouse keeper, engages in a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man in robes is piloting a mystical white ship which appears when the moon is full. Elton walks across the water on a bridge of moonbeams, joins the bearded man on the ship, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be found on Earth. They travel past Zar, a"
"bottom of the bay. ""Speedwell"" is also mentioned several times in battle-action scenes in the historical fiction novel, ""Armada: A Novel"", written by Charles Gidley Wheeler and published in 1987. Speedwell (1577 ship) Speedwell was a 60-ton pinnace that, along with ""Mayflower"", transported the Pilgrims and was the smaller of the two ships. A vessel of the same name and size traveled to the New World seventeen years prior as the flagship of the first expedition of Martin Pring. ""Speedwell"" was built in 1577, under the name ""Swiftsure"", as part of English preparations for war against Spain. She participated in"
"HMS Woodpecker (U08) HMS ""Woodpecker"", pennant number U08, was a sloop of the Royal Navy. She was active during the Second World War and was a successful anti-submarine warfare vessel, being credited with the destruction of six U-boats. ""Woodpecker"" was ordered on 13 April 1940 under the 1940 Building Programme; she was laid down by William Denny & Brothers of Dumbarton, Scotland on 23 February 1941. She was launched on 29 June 1942, and commissioned 14 December the same year, with a build time of 23 months and 10 days. The ""Black Swan"" design was subject to many modifications during"
"Langtry. However, there is an audit trail from Lloyd's Yacht Register for the ""White Ladye"" showing that she was in private hands from the day she was built to when she was dismantled in 1935 and this is supported by contemporary newspaper articles. HMS Waterwitch (1892) HMS ""Waterwitch"" was a British hydrographic survey vessel active in eastern Asian waters from 1894 to 1912. She was a wooden vessel, purchased from a private owner specifically for survey work. She was lost in a collision in Singapore harbour in 1912. She was built as a private vessel, ""Lancashire Witch "" in 1878"
"Hergé thought this was a perfect name for Tintin’s new mariner friend, and so Captain Haddock was born. There was a real 20th-century ship's master bearing this unlikely but appropriate surname: Captain Herbert Haddock had been the skipper of the famous White Star Line's passenger vessel ""Olympic"". He had also been temporarily at the helm of Olympic's even more famous sister ship ""Titanic"" before ""Titanic"" was officially handed over to White Star for her doomed 1912 maiden voyage. Another famous namesake, and a possible inspiration for the Captain's ancestor Sir Francis, was the English admiral Richard Haddock, a veteran of"
"the 2014 Starz television show ""Black Sails"". Charles Vane Charles Vane (1680 – 29 March 1721) was an English pirate who preyed upon English and French ships. His pirate career lasted from 1716 to 1721. His flagship was the ""Ranger"". His death was by hanging at Gallows Point, Port Royal, Jamaica. Little is known of Vane's early life. He lived in Port Royal before becoming a pirate, but he was most likely not born there. Vane worked with Henry Jennings during Jennings' attack on the salvage camp for the wrecked Spanish 1715 Treasure Fleet. Vane first operated as an independent"
"HMS Whitehall HMS ""Whitehall"", pennant number D94, later I94, was a Modified W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the Second World War. ""Whitehall"", the first Royal Navy ship of the name, was ordered in January 1918 as part of the 13th Order of the 1918-1919 Naval Programme. She was laid down in June 1918 by Swan Hunter at Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, and launched on 11 September 1919. Work was then suspended and she was towed to Chatham Dockyard, where her fitting-out finally was completed in July 1924. She was commissioned into service on 9"