THE BLACK PEARL

The Black Pearl, originally known by its former name, the Wicked Wench, was an infamous ship of the seven seas. Earning a legendary status throughout the Age of Piracy, it was both a pirate and merchant vessel named Wicked Wench before being raised from the depths. With sails as dark as a moonless night, and a hull painted to match, the Black Pearl was every inch a pirate ship, built for action. This ship was most famously used by Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa, who both fought over the Captaincy of the Black Pearl.


Originally named the Wicked Wench, this ship was where the pirate Captain Morgan died during a massive sea battle with Captain Armando Salazar of the Spanish Navy, but not before Morgan gave command to young "Jack the Sparrow". Through unknown circumstances, the Wench became a merchant ship for the East India Trading Company, where the ship was owned by Cutler Beckett and given to Jack Sparrow, now a merchant seaman. Sparrow led the crew on several voyages from West Africa to the Caribbean and back on behalf of the Company. However, after Jack liberated a cargo of human slaves, Beckett ordered the Wench set alight and sunk and her captain forever branded as a pirate. After failing to rescue the Wench, Jack made a deal with Davy Jones, the ghostly captain of the Flying Dutchman. Jones raised Jack's beloved ship from the depths, giving Jack thirteen years as captain, in exchange for one hundred years of service aboard the Dutchman. With the ship's now charred look, Jack re-christened the Wicked Wench as the Black Pearl. Now a renowned pirate vessel and threat of the Caribbean, the Black Pearl would embark on many adventures on the high seas.

Two years later, during the quest for the cursed treasure of Cortés, Jack Sparrow lost the Black Pearl by a mutiny led by his first mate, Hector Barbossa. After ten years of being a cursed ship, with stories being told of a ship with black sails preying on ships and settlements, the Black Pearl was regained by Jack Sparrow after he killed Barbossa with the help of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. For the next year, Jack would captain the Pearl until former crewman Bootstrap Bill Turner reminded him of his thirteen-year-old bargain with Davy Jones, who demanded the thirteen-year-old debt was due to be paid. This prompted Jack's search for the Dead Man's Chest, which ended with the Kraken dragging both Jack and his beloved Pearl to Davy Jones' Locker. After escaping the Locker, the Black Pearl sailed for Shipwreck Cove, led by both Jack and the resurrected Barbossa, where it became the flagship of the Brethren Court's armada in the fight against Cutler Beckett's Armada. The titanic battle would end with the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman, now captained by Will Turner, destroying the HMS Endeavour, achieving the pirates victory.

After the showdown, Hector Barbossa once again stole the Black Pearl from Jack Sparrow with the intention of using it to find the Fountain of Youth. However, the Pearl came under attack by the Queen Anne's Revenge, captained by the notorious pirate Blackbeard, who used the Sword of Triton to bring the rigging to life and turned the Pearl against Barbossa and his crew. Unbeknownst to Barbossa, who escaped believing his ship to have been sunk, Blackbeard kept the Black Pearl itself, magicking the ship into a bottle for good measure, adding it to the other conquered ships enclosed in bottles in a special cabinet in his cabin. Several years later, after being shanghaied aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, Jack Sparrow was shown the current state of the Black Pearl by Angelica. Sparrow sent his loyal first mate Joshamee Gibbs to retrieve his beloved Pearl, and the two tried figuring how to get the ship out of the bottle.

About one year later, Jack Sparrow continued carrying the Black Pearl in a bottle until the ship was restored to its former glory by Hector Barbossa's use of Blackbeard's sword. Henry Turner and Carina Smyth would join Captains Barbossa and Sparrow aboard the Pearl in the quest for the Trident of Poseidon, during which the Pearl battled the Silent Mary. Following Hector's selfless sacrifice, Captain Jack Sparrow reclaimed the Black Pearl, and now he had only the infinite delight of the sea to look forward to.


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