"it is not an authentic tall ship. Another version, mounted on a gimbal, was built for filming the Maelstrom battle. In 2010, the ""Sunset"", which played the ""Black Pearl"" in most of the films, was reconstructed to portray the ""Queen Anne's Revenge"" in """". Black Pearl The Black Pearl is a fictional ship in the ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" film series. (The physical ship used as a prop during filmmaking is actually named the ""Sunset"".) In the screenplay, the ""Black Pearl"" is easily recognized by her distinctive black hull and sails. Captained by Jack Sparrow she is said to be"
"franchise in its original form (as the ""Wicked Wench""). The ""Wicked Wench"" makes its appearance during a sequence where Captain Armando Salazar is reminiscing about how and when he first met Jack Sparrow. In the flashback, the ""Wicked Wench""s helmsmen is a young Jack Sparrow. While being chased by Salazar's ship the ""Silent Mary"" into unknown water, the crew of the ""Wicked Wench"" throw ropes around nearby reefs off the port side and use the rigging to slingshot the ship into the opposite direction. Jack steers the ship through the reef, saving the crew and the ship by changing the"
"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"
"ship's course at the last second. Afterward, on the deck of the ""Wicked Wench"", the crew rewards Sparrow with ""tribute"" and bestow Jack with his famous hat and other personal effects. They make Jack a captain on the deck of the ship. We also learn Jack also got the name ""Sparrow"" by taunting Salazar, ""chirping like a sparrow"" from the crow's nest of the ""Wench"". In the present day, the ""Pearl"" has remained trapped in its bottle for 'five winters', Jack keeping it in his pocket even as he is forced to use a smaller ship known as the ""Dying"
"the Bight of Benin. After personally branding Sparrow with the ""P"" brand (so he'd be forever branded a pirate) Cutler Beckett gave the order to fire incendiary carcass charges at the ""Wicked Wench"", in order to totally demoralize his Sparrow. Jack Sparrow fought his way free from his guards, dove overboard and attempted to rescue his burning, foundering ship, but he was too late. The ""Wicked Wench"" turned into an inferno, then sank, taking Jack with her. But, while dying, Sparrow called upon Davy Jones, and struck a bargain with him...his soul and one hundred years serving aboard the ""Flying"
"young age, Beckett took employment in Great Britain's East India Trading Co. While on a mission for the Company, he was captured by pirates led by Christophe-Julien de Rapièr. He was tortured for several weeks, an experience which left him with eternal hatred for all maritime outlaws, before he was ransomed by the Company. Over the years, he became the EITC Director for West Africa. Thirteen years prior to the events of """", Beckett provided Jack Sparrow (who was under the employment of the E.I.T.C.) with the ""Wicked Wench"" to transport ""a certain cargo"" to the island of New Avalon"
"by Cutler Beckett, who makes him captain of a ship called the ""Wicked Wench"". Beckett gives Jack an assignment. He has heard a legend about a magical island named Zerzura whose labyrinthine bowels are said to contain a glorious treasure. Beckett suspects that one of his house slaves, a girl named Ayisha, is from Zerzura. He asks Jack to take her along on his voyage and seduce her into divulging the island’s whereabouts. In payment for his services, Beckett promises Jack a share of the treasure. But this task isn’t as easy as Jack initially believes. Before she agrees to"
"into obedience, demanded that the young captain transport a cargo of slaves to the New World. Initially Sparrow agreed, but when he realized that he was betraying the ""Wicked Wench"", as well as himself, he rebelled and freed the slaves by taking them to Kerma for safe asylum. Furious that Sparrow had flouted his orders and stolen the ""cargo"" of ""black gold"", Cutler Beckett had Sparrow thrown into jail. After allowing him to languish for a couple of months, Beckett had Sparrow transported to the ""Wicked Wench""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s anchorage, about a mile from the coast of West Africa, near Calabar on"
"truthfulness; there is no murder on his criminal record. Depp partly based the character on Pepé Le Pew, a womanizing skunk from ""Looney Tunes"". Sparrow claims to have a ""tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature,"" although his conquests are often left with a sour memory of him. Former flames, Scarlett and Giselle, usually slap him or anyone looking for him. His witty charm easily attracts women, and even has Elizabeth questioning her feelings. Verbinski noted phallic connotations in Sparrow's relationship with his vessel, as he grips the ship's wheel. The ""Black Pearl"" is described as ""the only ship which"
"the character of Captain Jack Sparrow in the 2003 adventure film, """". Blackbeard is also portrayed as a central character in two recent TV series. In the short lived Crossbones (2014) he is played by John Malkovich. The British actor Ray Stevenson plays him in season three and four of Black Sails (2016–2017). Notes Citations Bibliography Blackbeard Edward Teach or Edward Thatch ( – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may"
"Dutchman"" in return for a continued human existence of thirteen years as captain, plus saving the ""Wicked Wench"", transforming her into the fastest, most dangerous pirate ship sailing the seven seas. Jones agreed, and raised the ship from the sea floor, now newly christened as ""Black Pearl"", an all-black vessel with an angel figurehead. In keeping with their bargain, Jones raised the ship with Jack aboard in the Harbor of Tortuga to find a crew for his ship. Two years after, the ""Black Pearl"" was heading to the mysterious Isla de Muerta where the legendary ""Chest of Cortés"" was hidden."
"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"
"and most powerful pirate of the seven seas. Sparrow and his crew attempt to rob the new bank of St. Martin. The robbery is a success, but all the gold in it had fallen while they were dragging the locker, and Sparrow's crew abandons him. Despondent, Jack trades his magical compass for a drink. However, this betrayal of the compass releases an old enemy of Sparrow, whom holds a serious grudge against him; the ruthless undead pirate hunter Captain Salazar. Years previously, Jack had defeated Salazar by tricking him into sailing his ship into the Devil's Triangle, where Salazar and"
"flagship, HMS ""Dauntless"", in a hurricane while pursuing Jack. Meanwhile, Jack is visited by Will's father, Bootstrap Bill Turner, aboard the ""Black Pearl"". Bootstrap is now a crewman on the ""Flying Dutchman"", captained by Davy Jones. Jack previously bartered a deal with Jones to raise the ""Pearl"" from the depths; now Jack must join Jones' crew or be dragged to Davy Jones' Locker by the Kraken. Beckett, meanwhile, promises to free Elizabeth if Will brings him Jack's magic compass which points to whatever the holder wants most. Will finds Jack and the crew on an island and frees them from"
"his crew were cursed to live as the undead. Salazar states that Jack perched in the ship's rigging like a ""little bird"", earning him the name ""Jack the Sparrow"". It was during this event that Jack received his compass, as well as his characteristic gear. While in prison, Jack is contacted by Henry Turner, the son of Will and Elizabeth, to seek his aid in finding the Trident of Poseidon. Remembering Elizabeth and Will from his previous misadventures, Jack agrees but not before expressing some hesitation. The next day, Sparrow is sentenced to be executed by guillotine (by Jack's accidental"
"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"
"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"
"who desires to free his father from Jones; and Beckett, who wants the only ship that can outrun the ""Dutchman"". The ""Pearl"" sails to the fourth meeting of the ""Brethren Court"", and becomes the flagship of the Pirate Armada, led by the new Pirate King Elizabeth Swann, and Jack Sparrow, the real captain of the ""Black Pearl"". The ""Pearl"" and the ""Dutchman"" engage in a sea battle in a maelstrom during the battle between the pirates and Lord Cutler Beckett's armada, with Davy Jones and the ""Dutchman"" under his command. The two ships are evenly matched, and both are damaged"
"it was, Turner surmised it was serious enough that what Beckett wants most in the world (with regards to him using Jack's compass) is to see him dead. Most of the ""dirty work"" Beckett desires is carried out by his right-hand man, Ian Mercer. Cutler Beckett makes no appearance in """", although it is mentioned that Jack managed to escape several agents of the East India Trading Co. The books state that Jack's arm was branded because Jack refused to sin against God by transporting slaves and freed prisoners on his ship called the ""Wicked Wench"". After this disobedience a"
"in exchange for 100 years of service aboard Jones' ship, the ""Flying Dutchman"". Lord Beckett gains power over Davy Jones and, with the help of the ""Flying Dutchman"", he is now executing his plans to extinguish piracy forever. To stand against the East India Trading Co., Will, Elizabeth, Barbossa, and the crew of the ""Black Pearl"" set out to rescue Captain Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker. As one of the Nine Pirate Lords, Jack is needed in order to release an ancient goddess with the power to defeat Beckett's forces. Captain Jack Sparrow is on a quest to find"
"Jack for piracy. Will and Elizabeth free Sparrow from the gallows, but they are quickly caught. Governor Swann pardons Will, while Sparrow escapes. Norrington graciously accepts Elizabeth's wish to marry Will, and postpones pursuing Sparrow for one day. While pursuing Jack Sparrow, Norrington's ship, ""HMS Dauntless"" was lost in a hurricane off Tripoli. Disgraced, Norrington resigned his post and disappeared. Norrington's whereabouts are still unknown when Lord Cutler Beckett arrives in Port Royal with an arrest warrant for Norrington's part in Jack Sparrow's escape. Beckett also arrests Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. Drinking heavily and clad in his filthy, tattered"
"his physical appearance merging with various aquatic fauna. Sailors everywhere would fear him to the death, for Davy Jones had turned fierce and cruel, with an insatiable taste for all things brutal. Jones recruits dying sailors by promising them a reprieve from death in exchange for 100 years of service aboard the ""Dutchman"". He comes to command the Kraken, a feared mythological sea monster. In the about Jack Sparrow's earlier adventures, Davy Jones shows interest in the Sword of Cortes, also sought by Jack. He is a minor character, but appears in the seventh book as Jack and his crew"
"first seen as a Royal Navy warrant officer aboard the vessel carrying Governor Weatherby Swann and his young daughter Elizabeth from England to Port Royal. Gibbs is highly superstitious and fearful of the mere mention of pirates. When they come across a wrecked vessel (from which young Will Turner is rescued), Gibbs is the first to suggest it was attacked by pirates. Sometime over the next eight years, Gibbs either leaves or is expelled from the Royal Navy. Despite his initial dread of pirates, he became good friends with one: the ""Black Pearl's"" former captain, Jack Sparrow. Jack's history is"
"He is later seen as a pirate in Tortuga. The ""Black Pearl"" is still being captained by Jack Sparrow, although his crew is not content with him; they want to do more ""pirating"" and are upset about the hurricane. Davy Jones sends Bootstrap Bill Turner to remind Jack that he owes his soul and the ""Black Pearl"" to Jones, and his time is now up. Jack is marked with the black spot, which means that the Kraken is now out to pull him and the ship into the Locker. Jack has the ship sailed to the nearest land - Pelegosto,"
"characters. He is an EITC Director for West Africa, presiding over the EITC businesses from his office in Calabar. He gives Jack Sparrow the merchant vessel ""Wicked Wench"", and sends Jack to search for the mythical island of Kerma and the city of Zerzura. When Jack frees a cargo of black slaves, Beckett orders his men to burn the ship. In the Disney ""Pirates of the Caribbean Online"" MMORPG game, Cutler Beckett does not appear as an actual character in the game, but there is a place known as Beckett's Quarry on one of the islands the player can visit."
"furious Beckett in response ordered Jack's ship to be sunk and Jack branded a pirate. He was then imprisoned but he escaped and left a mysterious mark on Beckett that was so wounding to him that it resulted in him wishing nothing more in the world than to see Captain Jack Sparrow dead. Jack, after fleeing, tried to save his sinking ship, but ended up going down with it. Near death, Jack was found by Davy Jones. Jack promised Jones to serve Jones's ship ""The Flying Dutchman,"" if Jones would first raise the newly named ""Black Pearl"" for Jack to"
"3-D and IMAX 3D. ""On Stranger Tides"" succeeded in also grossing more than $1 billion, becoming the second film in the franchise and only the eighth film in history to achieve this. The franchise has grossed over $4.5 billion worldwide; it is the twelfth-highest-grossing film series of all time and it was the first franchise where more than one film grossed $1 billion worldwide. Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate Captain Jack Sparrow to save Turner's love, Elizabeth Swann, from cursed pirates led by Jack's mutinous former first mate, Captain Barbossa. Jack wants revenge against Barbossa, who left"
"The Lost Fleet: Dauntless The Lost Fleet: Dauntless is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack Campbell, the first in his The Lost Fleet series, published in 2006. ""Dauntless"" sets the stage for the six novel saga about a fleet of over 200 ships trapped deep behind enemy lines and cut off from traveling to their home territory. John 'Black Jack' Geary has recently been rescued from a 100-year-old escape pod with a damaged beacon. He was the commanding officer of an early battle in what has become a century-old war between the Syndicate Worlds and the Alliance. His"
"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"""
"that could defeat the ghost ship called the Black Pearl. There are also a large number of side quests. For instance, in one such side mission Hawk is enlisted to help a Dutch colonist find several kidnapped children. The ""Black Pearl"" is in this game but it is unknown if Barbossa is the captain (although Barbossa is set as the ship's default captain in the game codes). It cannot be destroyed. At night you see the Black Pearl's crew as skeletons. It can only be seen during the middle of the game and the end of the game—however, some people"
"against Jack Sparrow and marooned him on an uncharted island. Arriving at the treasure of Isla de Muerta, 882 identical pieces of Aztec gold, they claim it and spend it all. They realize too late that the cursed gold has turned them into undead. Shortly after the mutiny, Barbossa has Bootstrap Bill Turner killed by attaching a cannonball to his foot and throwing him overboard. The crew spend the next years retrieving the Aztec gold and amassing treasure, unable to find the last piece of gold, as Bootstrap Bill had sent it to his son. When Elizabeth Swan falls into"
"from the sea to claim its victims' souls following a Kraken attack (instigated by Davy Jones). The ""Dutchman"", able to sail on the sea and underwater, emits terror and potency to those unfortunate enough to cross its path. Davy Jones captures from the ship wreckage and demands that Jack Sparrow settle his overdue debt. Sparrow bargains for his life, and Jones finally agrees to accept 100 souls in exchange for Sparrow's, keeping Turner as ""a good faith payment"". Will is reunited with his father, ""Bootstrap Bill"" Turner, who is an indentured sailor aboard the ""Flying Dutchman"". Shipboard life is harsh,"
"to restore the ""Pearl"" to her original size. In the film, Gibbs is still Jack's first mate. Since the previous film, Jack Sparrow has a rickety ship called ""The Dying Gull"". He has Gibbs, Scrum, Marty, and a few others as his crew. In the opening, Jack, Gibbs and the crew attempt to rob a bank in a British colony by using horses to pull a safe full of money to them. Their plan backfires when the horses end up pulling the safe and the bank with them. They drag the bank through the town and by the time they"