The Bight of Benin , or Bay of Benin , is a bight in the Gulf of Guinea area on the western African coast that derives its name from the historical Kingdom of Benin .
77-663: The Black Pearl (formerly known as the merchant ship Wicked Wench ) is a fictional ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series . In the screenplay, the ship is easily recognized by her distinctive black hull and sails. Captained by Captain Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa , the Black Pearl is said to be "nigh uncatchable". In the first three films, she either overtakes or flees all other ships, including both
154-535: A bottle as a prize. Angelica also told that Blackbeard was after the Fountain of Youth to save himself from getting killed by a "one-leg man" "At fortnight, Blackbeard will meet his death...". While Jack learned about the ships in bottles, Barbossa still believed the Pearl to be sunk as his true agenda for revenge against Blackbeard was revealed. As Barbossa mortally wounded Blackbeard with a poisoned sword, he says, "For
231-399: A boy, William "Will" Turner Jr. brought the gold medallion with him on his journey to the Caribbean, although Elizabeth Swann , Governor Weatherby Swann's daughter, came into possession of it and kept it hidden for eight years. The Pearl later attacked Port Royal and abducted Elizabeth, believing she was Bootstrap's child and thus their only remaining source of Turner's blood. The Pearl
308-628: A common means of commercial intermodal freight transport . A tanker is a ship designed to transport liquids in bulk. Tankers can range in size from several hundred tons , designed to serve small harbours and coastal settlements, to several hundred thousand tons, with these being designed for long-range haulage. A wide range of products are carried by tankers, including: Different products require different handling and transport, thus special types of tankers have been built, such as chemical tankers , oil tankers , and gas carriers . Among oil tankers, supertankers were designed for carrying oil around
385-623: A couple of months, Beckett had Sparrow transported to the Wicked Wench ' s anchorage, about a mile from the coast of West Africa, near Calabar on the Bight of Benin . After personally branding Sparrow with the "P" brand (so he'd be forever identifiable as a pirate), Cutler Beckett gave the order to fire incendiary carcass charges at the Wicked Wench , to demoralize her captain. Sparrow fought his way free from his guards, dove overboard, and attempted to rescue his burning, foundering ship, but he
462-697: A long association with slavery , its shore being known as the Slave Coast . From 1807 onwards—after slave trading was made illegal for Britons—the Royal Navy created the West Africa Squadron in order to suppress and crush the slave trade. These efforts were magnified after 1833, when slave trading was made illegal throughout the British Empire. These efforts would continue until the 1890s, and cost Britain significant sums of money, and
539-590: A parley with Lord Beckett, Davy Jones, and Will Turner (who was pushed overboard by Sparrow for his attempted mutiny on the crew of the Pearl ). After Beckett reveals that Jack purposefully used Will's betrayal to try to save himself from Jones' wrath, Captains Swann and Barbossa trade Jack for Will; Jack is then imprisoned in the brig of the Dutchman . Helmed by Captain Barbossa, the Black Pearl then engages in
616-407: A regular broadside volley cannot be used in this situation) in her bow or stern , giving her a grave tactical disadvantage during a chase as the Pearl cannot shoot a ship it is chasing or return fire at a pursuer; her high speed only partially negates this handicap. In Dead Man's Chest another advantage the Black Pearl has over her enemies is her ability to hide in the sea at night since if all
693-544: A sea battle around a maelstrom against the Flying Dutchman . The two ships are evenly matched, and both are damaged by the other's cannons and later boarded. On the Dutchman , Jack escapes the brig and engages Davy Jones in a sword fight. Stealing the key to the dead man's chest from Jones, Jack threatens his foe by stabbing Jones' heart. However, Jones fatally stabs a downed Will Turner, and Jack instead helps Will to stab Jones' heart, killing Jones. As both ships near
770-406: A treasure from Benin. A variation of the rhyme is also mentioned. Flash For Freedom! , George MacDonald Fraser's 1971 picaresque novel of Harry Flashman's misadventures in—among other places and situations—an English stately home, the 1840s slave trade, antebellum plantation life, and meeting with then-congressman Abraham Lincoln , quotes another variant of the couplet: Oh, sailor beware of
847-415: A triple-threat sword fight ensues between Jack, Norrington, and Will (who has escaped from the Dutchman with the help of his father). After Jack manages to obtain the heart of Davy Jones from the chest (which is secretly stolen from him by Norrington), the Black Pearl is attacked by the Flying Dutchman . However, the Pearl can outrun the Dutchman owing to a favorable wind (the Pearl being faster with
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#1732775921850924-612: Is advancing on it. However, the Dutchman resurfaces with Captain Will Turner in command. The Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman sail alongside each other and destroy the Endeavor , killing Lord Cutler Beckett and forcing the now-leaderless EITC armada to flee. In Tortuga, Jack again loses the Black Pearl to Barbossa, leaving only him and Gibbs on Tortuga, Gibbs decides to stay and they part ways with Jack saying "Take What You Can" and Gibbs replying "Give Nothing Back", though
1001-731: Is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo , goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade . Cargo ships are usually specially designed for the task, often being equipped with cranes and other mechanisms to load and unload, and come in all sizes. A bulk carrier is a ship used to transport bulk cargo items such as iron ore , bauxite, coal, cement, grain and similar cargo. Bulk carriers can be recognized by large box-like hatches on deck, designed to slide outboard or fold fore-and-aft to enable access for loading or discharging cargo. The dimensions of bulk carriers are often determined by
1078-1223: Is defined by the United States Coast Guard as any vessel (i.e. boat or ship) engaged in commercial trade or that carries passengers for hire. In English, the term "Merchant Navy" without further clarification is used to refer to the British Merchant Navy ; the United States merchant fleet is known as the United States Merchant Marine . Merchant ships' names have a prefix to indicate which kind of vessel they are: The UNCTAD review of maritime transport categorizes ships as: oil tankers, bulk (and combination) carriers, general cargo ships, container ships, and "other ships", which includes "liquefied petroleum gas carriers, liquefied natural gas carriers, parcel (chemical) tankers, specialized tankers, reefers, offshore supply, tugs, dredgers, cruise, ferries, other non-cargo". General cargo ships include "multi-purpose and project vessels and Roll-on/roll-off cargo". A cargo ship or freighter
1155-490: Is first seen as a ship in a bottle, still kept in Captain Jack Sparrow's possession. According to Hector Barbossa, who still believes the Pearl to be sunk, Blackbeard's attack on the Black Pearl was revealed to have happened "five winters ago." A pirate ship with the name Wicked Wench on the stern makes its appearance during a flashback sequence, although it was never stated that it was an older version of
1232-556: Is marked with the black spot , which means that the Kraken is now hunting to drag both Sparrow and his ship down to the Locker . Jack has the ship sailed to the nearest land - Pelegosto , an island inhabited by a cannibal tribe. Jack and the surviving crew escape the cannibals with Will Turner , Pintel, and Ragetti, and visit the voodoo priestess Tia Dalma for advice. Dalma details how Davy Jones cut out his own heart and locked it in
1309-755: Is mortally wounded in the ensuing attack and dies after naming Elizabeth his successor as captain. Meanwhile, the Black Pearl escapes to "Shipwreck Cove", a secret pirate rendezvous, where the fourth meeting of the Brethren Court is then convened. After Captain Elizabeth Swann arrives, the Pearl becomes the flagship of the Pirate Armada, led by the elected Pirate King, Elizabeth Swann . Captain Sparrow, Captain Barbossa, and Captain Swann take
1386-637: Is the Gold Coast colony in Africa where the character Larkom asks, "How does the old mariners' ditty run? You remember it. 'Oh, the Bight of Benin, the Bight of Benin, One comes out where three go in.'" Life expectancy was short in this locale due to the prevalence of Blackwater fever . The author Philip McCutchan has written a book titled Beware, beware the Bight of Benin . A short story by Elizabeth Coatsworth , "The Forgotten Island" (1942), deals with
1463-484: Is the largest in the world. Today, the Greek fleet accounts for some 16 per cent of the world's tonnage ; this makes it currently the largest single international merchant fleet in the world, albeit not the largest in history. During wars, merchant ships may be used as auxiliaries to the navies of their respective countries, and are called upon to deliver military personnel and materiel . The term "commercial vessel"
1540-524: Is too late, that she has shackled him to the ship's mast. She leaves him to his fate, but not before being informed by Jack that she has abandoned her refined and noble upbringing and is, indeed, a pirate. Embracing his fate, Jack bravely charges the maw of the Kraken and the Pearl is dragged down to Davy Jones' Locker as the surviving crew watches. Mourning the loss of Sparrow, the crew returns to Tia Dalma's shack. There, Dalma asks them if they would "sail to
1617-781: The Queen Anne's Revenge in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides . Merchant ship A merchant ship , merchant vessel , trading vessel , or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. This is in contrast to pleasure craft , which are used for personal recreation, and naval ships , which are used for military purposes. They come in myriad sizes and shapes, from six-metre (20 ft) inflatable dive boats in Hawaii, to 5,000-passenger casino vessels on
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#17327759218501694-627: The Black Pearl nor that the two ships were one and the same vessel. In the flashback, as reminisced upon by Spanish Royal Navy Captain Armando Salazar , the Silent Mary attacked pirate ships in battle, during which Captain Morgan died aboard the Wicked Wench , giving captaincy to young "Jack the Sparrow". Sparrow outmaneuvers Salazar while being chased into the Devil's Triangle, in which
1771-463: The Black Pearl to be sunk, Barbossa had revenge as a goal and pursued Blackbeard ever since, with an obsessive passion. However, unbeknownst to Barbossa, Blackbeard captured the Black Pearl , magicked the ship into a bottle for good measure, then added it to a collection of other conquered ships inside a cabinet found in the captain's quarters of the Queen Anne's Revenge . During the quest for
1848-464: The Black Pearl was attacked by the pirate ship Queen Anne's Revenge , captained by the infamous Blackbeard . Using the supernatural powers embedded within the Sword of Triton, Blackbeard brought the rigging of the Pearl to life, wrapping around Barbossa's crew "like snakes" and were swiftly defeated. To survive the attack, Barbossa was forced to cut off his leg to escape the doomed Pearl . Believing
1925-565: The Disney+ series Prop Culture . "And so, the Black Pearl, we needed it to feel very different than the others. It's haunted, it's a special place. Wherever you look, you feel like you're being watched. This idea that the sails actually had personality to it, the way they were ripped, they almost had faces coming out. And yet, it's Jack Sparrow's Millennium Falcon. You know? It's his ship that he loves so much. So you have to not hate it, you actually have to think it's kind of beautiful." As hinted in
2002-735: The Horn of Africa from the Middle East ; the FSO Knock Nevis being the largest vessel in the world, a ULCC supertanker formerly known as Jahre Viking (Seawise Giant). It has a deadweight of 565,000 metric tons and length of about 458 meters (1,500 ft). The use of such large ships is in fact very unprofitable, due to the inability to operate them at full cargo capacity; hence, the production of supertankers has currently ceased. Today's largest oil tankers in comparison by gross tonnage are TI Europe , TI Asia , TI Oceania , which are
2079-577: The Interceptor , which is regarded as the fastest ship in the Caribbean, and the Flying Dutchman , which is faster than the wind. Her speed is derived from several factors such as the large number of sails she carries and being partly supernatural . As stated in Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, the Black Pearl is "the only ship that can outrun the Dutchman " and this is evidenced in
2156-509: The Pearl to free his father from Davy Jones; Sao Feng covets the fastest ship in the Caribbean, and Cutler Beckett won't "give up the only ship that can outrun the Dutchman ". After Elizabeth joins Sao Feng on the Empress , the Pearl and the Empress launch a surprise attack on the Endeavour and flee. In response, Beckett sends the Flying Dutchman to track down the Empress . Sao Feng
2233-402: The Pearl ." Before Blackbeard's death at the Fountain, Sparrow sent Gibbs to retrieve the Pearl , though Gibbs fills a large sack with the bottles of other fallen ships from Queen Anne's Revenge . As the film concludes, Jack suggests a way of getting the Pearl out of the bottle and back to full size, but it will require "a crossbow, an hourglass, three goats, one of [them] must learn to play
2310-507: 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 and then retrofitted them with heavy armaments). Jack Sparrow captained the Wicked Wench for Cutler Beckett for about a year, hauling various cargoes, but he refused to haul slaves. Hoping to recruit Sparrow as one of his many "operatives", Beckett indulged what he regarded as an odd peccadillo of Sparrow's until he and
2387-435: The Bight o' Benin. There's one as comes out for a hundred goes in. In Patrick O'Brian 's novel The Commodore (1996), Dr. Maturin recites the rhyme when he learns of his ship's destination. Commodore Aubrey checks him, telling him it is bad luck to say that out loud on the way in. The rhyme is also partially quoted in chapter Context(6) of John Brunner 's novel Stand on Zanzibar . The Bight of Benin (as well as
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2464-496: The Bight of Benin relied heavily on a long established slave trade that expanded greatly after the arrival of European powers and became a global trade with the colonization of the Americas . Estimates from the 1640s suggest that Benin (Beneh) took in 1200 slaves a year. Restrictions made it hard for slave volume to grow until new states and different routes began to make an increase in slave trade possible. The Bight of Benin has
2541-530: The Black Spot from Jack's palm. Jones and his crew then depart aboard the Dutchman with Will (who is "a good-faith payment"), while the Pearl travels to Tortuga to "recruit" the remaining 99 souls. In Tortuga, Jack runs into Elizabeth and a drunk, washed-up James Norrington. Owing to her desire to find Will, Elizabeth can provide Jack with a heading to the dead man's chest, which is buried on Isla Cruces . With each desiring control of Jones for his ends,
2618-717: The Caribbean: The Price of Freedom , due to Crispin reading the screenplay for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End , though the scenes were deleted from the final cut of the film. The Wicked Wench was registered to the East India Trading Company 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 Company and regained captaincy of
2695-484: The Devil's Triangle, in which the pirate crew of the Wicked Wench throw ropes around nearby reefs off the port side and use the rigging to slingshot the ship in the opposite direction. Jack steers the ship through the reef, saving the crew and the ship by changing the ship's course at the last second. Afterward, on the deck of the Wicked Wench , the crew rewards Sparrow with "tribute" and bestows Jack with his famous hat and other personal effects. In Dead Man's Chest , it
2772-433: The Fountain of Youth, Jack Sparrow met Hector Barbossa, now a privateer serving King George II 's expedition for the Fountain, who insisted that his beloved Pearl was sunk, though Jack told Barbossa he should've been sunk with it. However, after being shanghaied aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge , Jack was shown the current state of the Black Pearl by Blackbeard's daughter, Angelica, who revealed Blackbeard kept each ship in
2849-565: The Mississippi River, to tugboats plying New York Harbor , to 300-metre (1,000 ft) oil tankers and container ships at major ports, to passenger-carrying submarines in the Caribbean . Many merchant ships operate under a " flag of convenience " from a country other than the home of the vessel's owners, such as Liberia and Panama , which have more favorable maritime laws than other countries. The Greek merchant marine
2926-527: The Navy. One year later, the Black Pearl is still being captained by Jack Sparrow , although his crew is not content with him; it's been months since they did "a speck of honest pirating", and they are upset about the Royal Navy's pursuit and the hurricane. Davy Jones sends Bootstrap Bill Turner to remind Jack that he still owes his soul and one hundred years of service aboard the Flying Dutchman to Jones; Jack's thirteen years of captaincy have now passed. Jack
3003-470: The Pirate Lord of Singapore, Sao Feng, they find themselves in the Locker. Jack and the Pearl are stranded in a seemingly-endless desert, but Tia Dalma can use the Locker's mysterious crustaceans (crabs that look like rocks) to transport Jack and the Pearl to the nearby shore. Jack deciphers a clue from the navigational charts, and the crew capsizes the ship at sunset. The Black Pearl then returns to
3080-510: The Royal Navy hundreds, if not thousands, of sailors’ lives from tropical diseases. The old Royal Navy rhyme says: A variation goes: This is said to be a slavery jingle or sea shanty about the risk of malaria in the Bight. A third version of the couplet is: In R. Austin Freeman 's 1927 novel A Certain Dr. Thorndyke , Chapter II, "The Legatee," mention is made of this location. The scene
3157-454: The anchor to attack Jack, but Barbossa sacrifices himself to stab Salazar and save the others (Carina having been identified as his daughter). At the film's conclusion, Carina and Henry watch Will Turner's reunion with Elizabeth Swan due to the destruction of the Trident also freeing Will from his role as captain of the Flying Dutchman. Jack departs as he is restored to his traditional role as
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3234-586: The battle, Jack's crew can commandeer the Pearl , leaving Jack behind at Isla de Muerta. However, they later rescue him after he escapes execution in Port Royal, and he again takes command of the ship. The Black Pearl was pursued by Commodore James Norrington and the Royal Navy . Off of Tripoli , a large hurricane battered the Pearl (though it survived), and HMS Dauntless sank, along with most of its crew. Norrington survived and later resigned from
3311-497: The bottle subsequently breaking as the Pearl grows to the size of a larger model, only regaining its full size when it returns to the sea. Barbossa then claims the ship for himself to battle the undead Captain Salazar, tying Jack to the rear of the ship, however, Jack managed to escape thanks to the help of Henry Turner, son of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who has allied with him to find the Trident of Poseidon. After tracking down
3388-420: The bottom of the maelstrom, the topmasts become entangled. The Dutchman begins to pull down both ships, so Pintel and Ragetti fire a chain shot at the entangled masts. Jack and Elizabeth escape the Dutchman using a makeshift parasail, and Pearl escapes the maelstrom while the Dutchman sinks. Once the storm subsides, the Pearl is still afloat but substantially damaged, and no match for the Endeavour which
3465-453: The captain came to part ways. Beckett had dispatched Sparrow on a mission to find the lost island of Kerma, and the treasure at the heart of its underground labyrinth, but Sparrow double-crossed the EITC official and claimed he couldn't locate the island. Suspicious that Sparrow had indeed found the island and the treasure, but had not given him its accurate location, Beckett determined to browbeat
3542-507: The captain into obedience and 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", Beckett had Sparrow thrown into jail. After allowing him to languish for
3619-536: The captain of the Black Pearl with both his crew from the Dying Gull and Barbossa's crew from the Queen Anne's Revenge joining him. The Black Pearl is moderately armed and carries 32 twelve-pound cannons : 18 on the gun deck and 14 on the upper deck . Its full broadside contains 16 cannonballs that weigh 192 lb (192 pounds (87 kg)). Extremely unusual for a pirate ship, the Pearl has no chase guns (cannons used while being chased or chasing, as
3696-483: The chest along with a trace of blood from each pirate who stole one. William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner Sr. , the only crew member who defended Jack Sparrow during the mutiny, sent a coin to his young son Will Turner in England, believing the crew "deserved to be cursed, and remain cursed". In retaliation, Barbossa (as Pintel put it), "strapped a cannon to old Bootstrap's bootstraps. The last we saw of old Bill Turner... he
3773-600: The coins would become an undead being, unable to feel anything but insatiable hunger, and that only moonlight would reveal their true form. This curse being real, the pirates were soon hideous living skeletons with tattered flesh and clothing clinging to their bones, unable to eat or drink, though still suffering hunger and thirst. Even the Black Pearl was affected by the curse upon its crew, becoming constantly shrouded in an eerie mist and operating with tattered sails ripped in many places. The curse could only be lifted when all eight hundred and eighty-two coins were returned to
3850-551: The crew of the Pearl (including Pintel, Ragetti, Marty, Murtogg, and Mullroy), "are unsettled about leaving Captain Jack behind - again", indeed they all leave the Black Pearl and Barbossa recruits a new crew. However, Sparrow has secretly stolen the critical portion of Barbossa's navigational charts, and so goes back to searching for the Pearl and the Fountain of Youth so he can gain immortality. One night, sometime after leaving Tortuga,
3927-425: The crew of the Silent Mary became undead ghosts waiting to be freed to seek revenge. In the present day, Jack keeps the Black Pearl in a bottle in his pocket even as he is forced to use a smaller ship known as the Dying Gull to go to sea. Later in the film, Barbossa is shown to be aware of the ship in a bottle and restores the Pearl to its former glory; stabbing the bottle with Blackbeard's sword cracks it,
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#17327759218504004-455: The crew of the Wicked Wench throw ropes around nearby reefs off the port side and use the rigging to slingshot the ship in the opposite direction. Jack steers the ship through the reef, saving the crew and the ship by changing the ship's course at the last second. Afterward, on the deck of the Wicked Wench , the crew rewards Sparrow with "tribute" and bestows Jack with his famous hat and other personal effects. But unbeknownst to Jack, Salazar and
4081-472: The deal with Davy Jones, when Jack sailed the Black Pearl and had his magical compass in search of the mysterious Isla de Muerta , where the legendary Treasure of Cortés was hidden. By this point, Hector Barbossa was Jack's first mate and Bootstrap Bill Turner had joined the crew, though the other crew members, Pintel and Ragetti , were recruited in Tortuga . Captain and crew agreed to equal shares of
4158-553: The ends of the Earth and beyond, to fetch back 'witty Jack' and him precious Pearl ". Gibbs, Pintel, Ragetti, Cotton's parrot (who speaks for both itself and its master), Elizabeth, and Will all agree. Tia Dalma then announces their new captain, Hector Barbossa , who asks what's become of "his" ship. Led by the newly resurrected Captain Barbossa, Tia Dalma and the crew of the Black Pearl vow to rescue Jack Sparrow and his ship from Davy Jones' Locker. Using Chinese navigational charts from
4235-521: The fictional republic of Beninia) is mentioned throughout the novel. David Bramhall's series of novels "The Greatest Cape" also mentions the rhyme, one of the characters in the first volume, The Black Joke , having been a pirate and a slaver. In 2007, a collection of short stories entitled The Bight of Benin: Short Fiction by Kelly J. Morris was published by AtacoraPress.com. The stories are set in Ghana , Togo , Benin and Nigeria . On 1 February 1852
4312-572: The films' backstory, the Black Pearl was once a merchant ship named Wicked Wench while Jack Sparrow was a merchant sailor the East India Trading Company . The name Wicked Wench originates from the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland Park , which is shown shelling a fort. The backstory for the merchant ship Wicked Wench is further detailed by A.C. Crispin in the 2011 Disney Publishing novel, Pirates of
4389-599: The formerly ubiquitous twelve-passenger freighters in which the transport of passengers is secondary to the carriage of freight. The type does however include many classes of ships which are designed to transport substantial numbers of passengers as well as freight. Indeed, until recently virtually all ocean liners were able to transport mail, package freight and express, and other cargo in addition to passenger luggage, and were equipped with cargo holds and derricks, kingposts, or other cargo-handling gear for that purpose. Modern cruiseferries have car decks for lorries as well as
4466-459: The hidden "Dead Man's Chest". The crew learns that if Jones' heart is stabbed, he will die, so whoever controls Jones' heart can command Jones himself. Dalma then helps the crew of the Pearl track down the Flying Dutchman . When Jack sends Will over to the Dutchman , the Pearl is boarded by Jones' cursed crew. Jack makes a deal with Davy Jones; he will deliver Jones 100 souls in three days in exchange for his own. Jones agrees, temporarily removing
4543-482: The island where the Trident is located, triggering a mystical convergence that opens a trench in the ocean, Salazar claims the Trident for himself, but Henry and Carina Smyth destroy the Trident when Salazar attempts to use it to kill Jack. The destruction of the Trident restores Salazar and his men to a full life but also causes the sea trench to collapse, with the Pearl ' s crew lowering its anchor to pull Jack, Henry, and Carina to safety. Salazar attempts to climb up
4620-750: The largest sailing vessels today. But even with their deadweight of 441,585 metric tons, sailing as VLCC most of the time, they do not use more than 70% of their total capacity. Apart from pipeline transport , tankers are the only method for transporting large quantities of oil, although such tankers have caused large environmental disasters when sinking close to coastal regions, causing oil spills . See Braer , Erika , Exxon Valdez , Prestige and Torrey Canyon for examples of tankers that have been involved in oil spills. Coastal trading vessels are smaller ships that carry any category of cargo along coastal, rather than trans-oceanic, routes. Coasters are shallow-hulled ships used for trade between locations on
4697-410: The living world at sunrise. Back in the realm of the living, the Black Pearl resupplies at an island, but is ambushed by Sao Feng (aboard his vessel Empress ) and Jack's old enemy Cutler Beckett (aboard his flagship HMS Endeavour ). Disputes mean that the Pearl is now desired by multiple characters. Captain Sparrow claims that it is his ship; Captain Barbossa is that it was his ship; Will needs
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#17327759218504774-628: The maelstrom battle between the two ships in the movies. The Black Pearl is the titular pirate ship that appears in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl . Similar to how Jack Sparrow was compared to Han Solo from the Star Wars franchise, the Black Pearl was compared to the Millennium Falcon at least once by James Ward Byrkit , a creative consultant of Gore Verbinski 's Pirates trilogy, in
4851-479: The passengers' cars. Only in more recent ocean liners and in virtually all cruise ships has this cargo capacity been removed. A ferry is a boat or ship carrying passengers and sometimes their vehicles. Ferries are also used to transport freight (in lorries and sometimes unpowered freight containers ) and even railroad cars (in the case of a train ferry ). Bight of Benin The Bight of Benin
4928-553: The ports and sea routes that they need to serve, and by the maximum width of the Panama Canal. Most lakes are too small to accommodate bulk carriers, but a large fleet of lake freighters has been plying the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway of North America for over a century. A container ship is a cargo ship that carries its cargo in standardized containers, in a technique called containerization . These ships are
5005-412: The same island or continent. Their shallow hulls allow them to sail over reefs and other submerged navigation hazards, whereas ships designed for blue-water trade usually have much deeper hulls for better seakeeping . A passenger ship is a ship whose primary function is to carry passengers. The category does not include cargo vessels which have accommodations for limited numbers of passengers, such as
5082-567: The second and third movies, a floating sailing ship was built in the shipyards at Bayou La Batre in Alabama on the hull of the cargo ship Sunset to serve as the set, though 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
5159-502: The seven seas. Jones agreed and raised the ship from the sea floor, now a charred vessel with an angel figurehead. In keeping with her scorched appearance, Jack painted his ship black and added black sails, rechristening her "the Black Pearl ". In the 2017 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales , a ship named the Wicked Wench makes its appearance during a flashback sequence, although it
5236-481: The ship's lamps are blown out the ship is no longer visible thanks to her black hull and sails. This is also seen in Curse of the Black Pearl where she can sneak unhindered into Port Royal under the cover of darkness. In the first movie, the Black Pearl was a steel barge with wooden structures built on top to resemble a real ship. In addition, a soundstage set was used to achieve better control over fog machines. For
5313-474: The treasure, but devious Barbossa persuaded Jack that equal shares included knowing the treasure's location. Jack complied, and soon after Barbossa led a mutiny and marooned Jack on an island with nothing but a pistol containing one shot. Barbossa's crew sailed the Black Pearl to Isla de Muerta and found the Aztec gold, which was spent very quickly, not believing in the curse placed on it: that anyone who stole
5390-541: The trumpet, whilst the other one goes like this" to which Gibbs says he knows someone who owns a goat and Sparrow replies "good and I can go like this" ("this" being a wiggling of the fingers). Meanwhile, Barbosa was made captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge and holds the Sword of Triton. The Black Pearl appears once again in the fifth installment of the movie franchise, which takes place over 20 years after At World's End and about one year after On Stranger Tides . It
5467-422: The wind). Davy Jones then unleashes the Kraken on the Pearl . Despite successfully fighting the Kraken off twice, the ship still sustains heavy damage and most of her crew are killed. Jack orders the surviving crew to abandon the ship. After figuring out that the Kraken is only after Jack and not the Pearl , Elizabeth distracts Jack by suggesting she might let her kiss him, but he turns her down, unaware, until it
5544-544: Was eventually commandeered by Sparrow with a new crew. While most of Barbossa's crew were battling the Royal Navy aboard HMS Dauntless , Barbossa, Monk, and Jacoby fight Elizabeth, Will, and a now-cursed Jack Sparrow at Isla de Muerta. After Will and Jack put their blood on their respective pieces and return them to the chest of Cortés, the Aztec curse was lifted. With the crew no longer immortal, Jack used his single shot - which he had carried for ten years - to kill Barbossa. During
5621-628: Was named after the Kingdom of Benin . It extends eastward for about 640 kilometres (400 mi) from Cape St. Paul to the Nun outlet of the Niger River , which marks the westernmost point of the Bight of Biafra . Historical associations with the Atlantic slave trade led to the region becoming known as the Slave Coast . As in many other regions across Africa , powerful indigenous kingdoms along
5698-409: Was never stated that it was an older version of the Black Pearl nor that the two ships were one and the same vessel. In the flashback, as reminisced upon by Spanish Royal Navy Captain Armando Salazar , the Silent Mary attacked pirate ships in battle until Captain Morgan died aboard the Wicked Wench , giving captaincy to young "Jack the Sparrow". Sparrow outmaneuvers Salazar while being chased into
5775-461: Was revealed that Davy Jones raised the Black Pearl from the depths and allowed Jack Sparrow to captain the ship for thirteen years in exchange for his soul and servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman . According to Jack, he was only captain for two years until he was viciously mutinied upon, despite introducing himself as Captain Jack Sparrow all those years. The mutiny occurred two years after
5852-404: Was sinking to the crushing black oblivion of Davy Jones' locker ". Only then did Barbossa's crew learn that they also needed Bootstrap's blood to break the curse, and by throwing him overboard they had doomed themselves to continued damnation. Over the next decade, the Black Pearl menaced the Caribbean as the pirates searched tirelessly for the Aztec gold until all but one piece was found. As
5929-414: 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 of service aboard the Flying Dutchman , in return for continued human existence of thirteen years as captain, plus saving the Wicked Wench and transforming her into the fastest, most dangerous pirate ship on
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