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Hector Barbossa's crew of the Black Pearl boarding the Interceptor.

"Captain, I've spoken to the men and reassured them. The pirates will be boarding in a few minutes. We have a white flag up. But they’ll want the two of us down on the weather deck, too, so they can keep an eye on us."
―Jack Sparrow to Nathaniel Bainbridge[src]

Boarding is an offensive tactic used in battle and naval warfare to come up against (or alongside) an enemy ship or marine vessel and attack by inserting combatants aboard that vessel. In its simplest sense, boarding refers to the insertion onto a ship's deck of personnel. However, when it is classified as an attack, in most contexts, it refers to the forcible insertion of personnel that are not members of the crew by another party without the consent of the captain or crew.

The goal of boarding is to invade and overrun the enemy personnel on board in order to attempt to seize, capture, sabotage or destroy the vessel. While boarding attacks were originally carried out by ordinary sailors who are proficient in hand-to-hand combat, larger warships often deploy specially trained and equipped marines as boarders. Boarding may also occur in peacetime by pirates and other criminals, or as a means of inspection by a nation's navy) to prevent piracy and smuggling.

History[]

Two boarding parties from the crews of the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman.

Two boarding parties from the crews of the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman.

"Strike your colors, you bloomin' cockroaches! Hands, grapnels at the ready! Prepare to board!"
―Hector Barbossa[src]

As the East India Trading Company merchant vessel Fair Wind comes across the pirate frigate Venganza, the pirates boarded the merchant ship.[1] During the battle between the Black Pearl and the Interceptor, Captain Hector Barbossa ordered his cursed crew to prepare to board.[2] Over a year later, during the battle between the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman, both crews boarded the other.[3]

Behind the scenes[]

"The surrender has been given. Prepare to board!"
―Captain Toms[src] (2013 screenplay draft)

Boarding would first appear, identified as "board", in the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.[2] Although the term was used to describe "boarding axes" in Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay for the film,[4] the first in-universe usage of the name "boarding" would be in Elizabeth Rudnick's junior novelization.[5]

In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, after Jack Sparrow taunts Davy Jones with a jar of dirt aboard the Black Pearl while facing the crew of the Flying Dutchman, Maccus asks if Jones' crew should board Sparrow's ship, to which Jones replies, "No. Sink his beloved Pearl."[6]

In the video game adaptation of the 2007 film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, following the battle between the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman, the Endeavour crew boarded the Black Pearl. The Pearl and its crew defend themselves from the Endeavour, but they're eventually defeated by a combined attack by the Pearl and the Dutchman.[7] In the film itself, the Endeavour crew abandoned ship without boarding the Pearl.[8]

In Jeff Nathanson's early 2013 screenplay draft for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, at the beginning of the film the HMS Monarch was engaged in a battle with the French Royal Navy ship the Courageux. The British eventually won the battle, boarding the French ship.[9]

Boarding would appear in Tim Powers' 1987 novel On Stranger Tides, which was used as the basis of the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.[10]

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  1. ↑ The Price of Freedom, Chapter Two: Lady Esmeralda
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  3. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  4. ↑ Wordplayer.com: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
  5. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2006 junior novelization)
  6. ↑ Wordplayer.com: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
  7. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (video game)
  8. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named AWE
  9. ↑ Dead Men Tell No Tales script by Jeff Nathanson, second draft, 5/6/2013
  10. ↑ On Stranger Tides, Chapter One
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