Deckhand (Edinburgh Trader)

"The ghost of a lady, widowed before her marriage, I figure it. Searching for her husband, lost at sea."

- The deckhand to Captain Samuel Bellamy

This man was a sailor who served as deckhand aboard the Edinburgh Trader during the time of the East India Trading Company's appearance in Port Royal. Whilst mopping the deck he stumbled upon the dress of stow-away Elizabeth Swann.

After presumably alerting the Quartermaster and Bursar a row broke out between these two over what they perceived to be a ghostly threat represented by the dress. The deckhand thought the dress to be that of a young woman widowed before her marriage, and that her spirit was searching for her husband lost at sea.

During the night Elizabeth Swann puppeteered her dress to give the Captain a "ghostly" message to dock at Tortuga. When the Quartermaster spotted what he thought to be the ghost's sign the deckhand disparagingly noted "that's seaweed".

The deckhand was forced to watch as his captain was pulled from the ship by a tentacle of the Kraken before himself being killed by the beast.

Appearances

 * Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest