Silent Mary

The Silent Mary was a Spanish Royal Navy warship that sailed in the Caribbean during the Age of Piracy. Most notably commanded by Capitán Salazar, the ship was lost in the mysterious waters of the Devil's Triangle. Years later, the ship returned to the Seven Seas, now transformed into a dreaded ghost ship crewed by ghosts.

Design and appearance
A three-masted warship, the Silent Mary was originally the pride of the Spanish Royal Navy. A large, multi-decked vessel built for battle, she was perfect for hunting pirates on the Seven Seas, or destroying the ships of the nations hostile to Spain.

The ship's wheel was located on the quarterdeck, on a platform slightly taller than the rest of the deck, that also extended all the way behind the mizzen mast to the entrance into the captain's quarters and the poop deck above. A gangway, located directly above the guns on the main deck, connected the quarterdeck to the forecastle. By the time when the Silent Mary became a ghost ship, the gangway and its rail have collapsed in several places, and were no longer usable, making the ship's crew walk directly across the main deck. The ship's figurehead, located beneath the bowsprit, showed a woman holding a spear. Like many other Spanish ships of the time, the Silent Mary had a spritsail topmast at the end of the bowsprit.

The rigging of the Silent Mary had three masts: the fore, the mizzen, and the main. The foremast was rigged with a fore course, a fore topsail, and a fore topgallant sail, the mainmast with a main course, a main topsail, and a main topgallant sail, and the mizzenmast with a mizzen course, a mizzen topsail, and a mizzen topgallant sail. The main course was decorated with the Coat of arms of the Holy Roman Emperors, the usual emblem of the Spanish monarchy of the time, which made the ship's nationality easily recognizable on the high seas.

The Silent Mary's main armament consisted of fortyfour 36-pound cannons, twenty two on the gun deck and twenty two on the main deck. She also carried four 36-pounders on the quarterdeck and four 36-pounders on the forecastle. She also had two bow chasers located inside the tower-like structures at the forecastle.

Behind the scenes

 * The Silent Mary was portrayed by a prop built in Gold Coast, Australia.
 * The Spanish name of this ship would be La María del Silencio.
 * The Silent Mary shares many similarities with the Nuestra Senora de Lagrimas, the Spanish treasure galleon which appears in On Stranger Tides, a novel which was used as the basis for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

Appearances

 * Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales