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British galleon

A British galleon.

"A galleon. On its way from the Spanish Main. They're approaching with oars."
―Jack Sparrow[src]

A galleon was a large, multi-decked sailing ships originally developed in Spain and Portugal. Such ships played a major role in commerce, first used as armed cargo carriers by European nations from the 16th to 18th centuries and were often the principal vessels drafted for use as auxiliary naval warships, purportedly until the mid-17th century. Galleons generally carried three or more masts with a lateen fore-and-aft rig on the rear masts, were carvel built with a prominent squared off raised stern, and used square-rigged sail plans on their fore-mast and main-masts.

History[]

Shipwreck Island

Shipwreck City was constructed of ships, including one Spanish treasure galleon that had been converted into a tavern.

"What are you all waiting for?"
"We're signing on to serve on the Santa Catalina. The king's finest galleon, she is! Heading for Zaragona with supplies and weapons."
―Pablo and Turi[src]

Originally developed in Spain and Portugal as sailing ships, galleons became one of the principal vessels used during the Golden Age of Piracy. One of the more notable galleons was the pirate vessel Wicked Wench, which attacked the Caribbean port of Puerto Dorado at Isla Tesoro.[1][2] Another was the Santa Catalina, considered "the king's finest galleon" as it headed for Zaragona with supplies and weapons.[3]

In the days of myth and legend, the Flying Dutchman was a galleon that most resembled a fluyt, a ghost ship and a brute nautical force of the seven seas that eventually falling under the command of Davy Jones, the cursed captain of the Dutchman and ruler of the Seven Seas.[4][5]

Three quarters of the way up the towers of ships that constructed Shipwreck City, what had once been the Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Señora de la Inspiración Divina, or Our Lady of Divine Inspiration (some witty pirate had modified this to "Our Lady of Divine Inebriation"), had been converted into a tavern that was publicly known as The Drunken Lady.[6]

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The Spanish Navy galleon Silent Mary destroying pirate ships of the seas.

Jack Sparrow sailed aboard many galleons during his adventures as a teenage stowaway and living the pirate's life. Near the end of his earliest adventures, Jack Sparrow was aboard the Fleur de la Mort, a French warship and galleon under the command of Arabella Smith's mother, Captain Laura Smith.[7][8] The Silent Mary was a galleon under the Spanish Navy captain Armando Salazar,[9][10] who used the vessel to destroy pirates from the seas until Salazar was defeated by young Jack Sparrow aboard Captain Morgan's pirate vessel Wicked Wench.[11] Several years later, while pursuing a legitimate career as a merchant seaman for the East India Trading Company, Sparrow was given captaincy of the EITC merchant vessel Wicked Wench until the ship was sunk by Cutler Beckett, risen from the depths by Davy Jones, and rechristened as the Black Pearl, which even as an EITC vessel had some aspects of a galleon (her high stern) in her decks and rigging, but most resembled a Dutch East Indiaman.[12][13] Despite this, the Black Pearl was referred to as a galleon throughout her adventures as a pirate ship.[14][15][16]

During the quest for the Shadow Gold, Captain Jack Sparrow tried finding the Pirate Lords of the Brethren Court, including the Spanish Pirate Lord Eduardo Villanueva of the Spanish galleon Centurion.[17] Around this point in time, a British galleon was active during the adventures of Captain James Sterling.[18]

About ten years after the Black Pearl was stolen from Captain Jack Sparrow by the first mate Hector Barbossa and his crew several years earlier, Sparrow and young blacksmith Will Turner purportedly encountered the Spanish galleon of Don Carrera de la Vega,[19] an event that Sparrow claimed to have happened after commandeering the Interceptor of the British Royal Navy during Sparrow's quest to retrieve the Black Pearl from Barbossa.[20][15] In addition to the legend having vanished from under the eyes of seven agents of the East India Company,[20] Jack Sparrow was said to have sunk a French war galleon "with naught but his cutlass and a diving bell."[19]

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A three-masted pirate galleon anchored off the coast of Padres Del Fuego.

During the war against the undead pirate Jolly Roger, galleons have been anchored off the coast of many Caribbean islands, like Padres del Fuego. These included a class of British Royal Navy vessels like light galleons Bulwark and heavy war galleons Colossus, as well as a class of EITC galleons like Ironwall, light galleons Sentinel, and war galleons like Behemoth and Ogre.[21]

Following the fourth meeting of the Brethren Court regarding the war against the East India Trading Company,[22] the ragtag fleet of the nine Pirate Lords face Lord Cutler Beckett's armada of over three hundred vessels. Galleons, ketches, sloops, schooners, galleys, and junks—the battle brought together the great ships of the age of piracy.[23]

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Three Spanish galleons rush past the British ship, HMS Providence, in a race to find the Fountain of Youth.

Several years later, during the quest for the Fountain of Youth, three Spanish galleons under the command of The Spaniard's crew rush past the HMS Providence, the British Navy vessel of privateer Hector Barbossa, in a race to find the Fountain of Youth.[24]

Known galleons[]

Behind the scenes[]

Galleons first appear in Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean,[1] where a skeletal helmsman could be seen steering a ghostly galleon sailing on a storm-tossed lagoon in Dead Man's Cove.[2]

In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's early screenplay draft for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the British Royal Navy vessel H.M.S. Dauntless was described as a huge British dreadnought, and the H.M.S. Interceptor was described as a small sleek vessel.[14] Both the Dauntless and the Interceptor were described as galleons in the 2006 German novelization by Wolfgang and Rebecca Hohlbein.[25][26] The Black Pearl was described as both a schooner and galleon in the screenplay,[14] However, despite the ship designs in the final cut of the film, no such classifications were confirmed onscreen.[20] The Black Pearl was described as a galleon in the film's production notes,[15] with the portion of the script being used in the 2007 book The Art of Pirates of the Caribbean.[16] However, the eventual ship that was designed most closely resembles an East Indiaman with touches of Spanish galleon thrown in. A. C. Crispin's novel The Price of Freedom, detailing how the Wicked Wench became the Black Pearl, described the ship as a Dutch East Indiaman.[12] According to Crispin, her nautical expert told her that while the Pearl has some aspects of a galleon (her high stern) in her decks and rigging, the ship most resembles an East Indiaman, though the author explicated, "She's a fantasy pirate ship, built to order to look like everyone's imagined image of a pirate ship."[13]

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Notes and references[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Disneyland: From the Pirates of the Caribbean to the World of Tomorrow
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Climb Aboard If You Dare!: Stories From The Pirates of the Caribbean, p. 9
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 POTC2 Presskit
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "What's Next and What's New" for Disney Meetings - Press Release - Archived
  6. ↑ The Price of Freedom, Chapter One: Fair Winds and Black Ships
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Jack Sparrow: Silver, p. 26
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Jack Sparrow: The Tale of Billy Turner and Other Stories, p. 96
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Disney Pirates: The Definitive Collector's Anthology, p. 124
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 POTC5 Presskit
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 The Price of Freedom, Chapter Six: The Wicked Wench Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "TPoF-Ch6" defined multiple times with different content
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 A. C. Crispin on The Price of Freedom cover and the Black Pearl
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Wordplayer.com: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Pirates of the Caribbean production notes, accessed Dec 9, 2006
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 The Art of Pirates of the Caribbean
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Legends of the Brethren Court: The Caribbean
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 21.6 Pirates of the Caribbean Online
  22. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  23. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide, pp. 92-93 "The Wrath of Calypso"
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
  25. ↑ Fluch der Karibik - Roman zum ersten Kinofilm, p. 12
  26. ↑ Fluch der Karibik - Roman zum ersten Kinofilm, p. 35
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