- "The dead are conquering the sea, unable to step on dry land."
- ―Shansa
The crew of the Silent Mary was a Spanish Royal Navy crew that served on the Silent Mary under the command of Capitán Armando Salazar. Fiercely loyal to their leader, they followed him through the mysterious waters of the Devil's Triangle, where they all fell victims to the explosion that destroyed their ship. However, even death was not the end of the crew as they all returned to the Seven Seas as cursed ghosts, determined to exact revenge on the man they blamed for their fate - the infamous pirate Captain Jack Sparrow.
History[]
- "For too many years the Triangle has cursed us. Condemned us to this Hell. The key to our escape is Jack Sparrow... and the compass which he holds."
- ―Armando Salazar and Henry Turner
It is unknown when or where the crew was assembled, but they all served on the Silent Mary, under the command of Capitán Armando Salazar, the most notorious pirate hunter in the Spanish Royal Navy. Over the years, they hunted and killed thousands of pirates. In a battle off the coast of the mysterious Devil's Triangle, in what they thought was the last battle in their campaign, the crew successfully destroyed nine pirate ships, bringing piracy in the Caribbean to the brink of extinction.
Fiercely loyal to their Capitán, they followed his orders by sailing after Sparrow into the mysterious waters of the Devil's Triangle, where their ship was mangled by rocks within the Triangle, causing the powder stored within the ship to ignite and consume the ship with an unrelenting fire. They all fell victims to the fire. However, even death was not the end of the crew, as they all returned to the Seven Seas as ghosts through the supernatural forces of the Triangle, determined to exact revenge on the man they blamed for their fate - the infamous pirate Captain Jack Sparrow. Although they are able to pursue anyone at sea, they are unable to set foot on land, for if they do, they will die a quick death, proven when one of the crew members attempted to attack Sparrow, but was incinerated into black dust once his foot touched land.
The entire crew, including the notable Officers, Magda, Santos, Moss, and Lieutenant Lesaro, were devoured by the sea and drowned due to the powers of the trident of Poseidon. Many of the crew attempted to make their way toward an anchor which was meant to save Captain Jack, Carina, and Henry, but only two members of the crew along with Captain Salazar, were able to make it aboard. This was short lived, for when Barbossa sacrificed himself to save his daughter, Carina, He pierced Salazar through the back with his sword and the Spaniard fell downward and knocked the two other crew members off the anchor, sealing the fate of every Silent Mary crew member.
Behind the scenes[]
- The idea of including a ghost crew in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie goes back to the mid-2000s, when screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio originally conceived Davy Jones and his crew as ghostlike creatures in Dead Man's Chest and At World's End. However, determined to come up with never-before-seen fantastical characters, director Gore Verbinski wanted them to be more specifically of the sea, with gravity and weight, as if the souls of shipwrecked sailors had fused with the detritus of the ocean floor.[1]
- During the early development of On Stranger Tides, a ghost crew was originally supposed to appear, but the idea was cut.[2] However, it seems that the idea was recycled later for Dead Men Tell No Tales.
- In the film's novelization, multiple crewmembers of the Silent Mary turn to dust when they step on dry land at Hangman's Bay, not just one like in the film.
- In Jeff Nathanson's 2013 early draft of the Dead Men Tell No Tales script, the crew of the Silent Mary was a British Royal Navy crew, not Spanish. Captained by John Brand, the crew fought many battles against the Spanish and the pirates, until the captain lost his brother Eric, who was saved by the crew of the Black Pearl and eventually became a pirate himself. The Mary attacked Eric's ship, and Brand unknowingly killed his own brother, causing him to vow revenge on Jack Sparrow. The Mary followed the Pearl into the Devil's Triangle where the Navy vessel fell into a trap and sank. Since the Triangle was made by the Greek god Hades Brand and his men became ghosts. Sixteen years later, Brand retreived the Trident of Poseidon and freed the Mary from the Triangle. During the final battle the destruction of the Trident caused the gates of Hell to open at the bottom of the ocean, and the ghosts of Brand's victims dragged him and his crew into the underworld.[3]
Appearances[]
- The Brightest Star in the North: The Adventures of Carina Smyth (First appearance)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Notes and references[]
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