Monarch

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Monarch
Career information
Captain(s)	Toms
Notable crew members	Crew of the Monarch
Passengers	Old pirate (prisoner)
Fate	Burned and destroyed by the crew of the Silent Mary
Technical information
Type	Ship of the line Warship
Weapons	100 cannons
Battles	Attack in the Devil's Triangle
Affiliation	British Royal Navy Crew of the Monarch
Behind the scenes
First appearance	Dead Men Tell No Tales
Last appearance	Dead Men Tell No Tales
Cause	Destroyed

"The whole town speaks of you. The only survivor of the Monarch."

―John Scarfield to Henry Turner

The Monarch was a British Royal Navy warship active in the Caribbean during the Age of Piracy.

History

It is unknown when the Monarch was built, but by 1751 she was under the command of Captain Toms. As a warship of the British Navy, the Monarch was occasionally engaged in hunting and destroying pirates in the Caribbean. During one of these pirate hunts, the Monarch entered the Devil's Triangle, falling prey to the Silent Mary and her ghostly crew, led by the Spanish Navy officer Armando Salazar. The whole Monarch crew was slaughtered by the ghostly crew and only Henry Turner was left alive in order to tell the tale. The Monarch was then completely destroyed.

Behind the scenes

The Monarch first appeared in media relating to the 2017 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Although she made her debut in the film's teaser trailer, which released on October 2, 2016, the Monarch made her first full appearance in Elizabeth Rudnick's novelization, as well as detailed in the referenced book Disney Pirates: The Definitive Collector's Anthology. It was portrayed by the same prop that portrayed the Silent Mary and the Essex.

In the film, the Monarch was not called with the prefix HMS (His Majesty's Ship) nor does it fly any flag of the British Royal Navy or any symbol of the British Empire, despite being a British sailing ship. However, in artwork by set designer Helen O'Loan, the British ship is shown flying the Union Jack and the Red Ensign, a flag which was historically used by Royal Navy's Red Squadron which patrolled the waters of the Caribbean and the North Atlantic. The ship was also called the H.M.S. Monarch in Jeff Nathanson's 2013 screenplay draft.

While unconfirmed, the Monarch is most likely a reference to Terry Rossio's original 2012 screenplay draft of Dead Men Tell No Tales, which featured Queen Inez of Spain's sailing ship, the magnificent Monarca (which means Monarch in Spanish), a thousand ton Spanish Galleon and warship.

Historically, the Royal Navy had a warship named the HMS Monarch in 1751, a year in which Dead Men Tell No Tales is set. Unlike the POTC ship, the real Monarch was sold for breaking up in 1760.

In Pirates of the Caribbean Online, the Monarch is a war galleon which can be found in the waters around Padres Del Fuego. It is unknown if the ship in Dead Men Tell No Tales was meant to be the same ship from Pirates Online, though it is unlikely.

Appearances

• The Brightest Star in the North: The Adventures of Carina Smyth (Mentioned only)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Novelization (First appearance)
  • Pirates des Caraïbes : La Vengeance de Salazar
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: Movie Graphic Novel

Sources

• Disney Pirates: The Definitive Collector's Anthology

Notes and references

British Royal Navy ships in Pirates of the Caribbean
Royal Navy ships Albion – HMS Achilles – HMS Adventure – Arabella – Battle-Royale – Bastion – Belette – HMS Blazer – British galleon – British warship – Bulwark – Centurion – HMS Century – Colossus – HMS Comet – HMS Dauntless – HMS Diamond – Dreadnought – Elite – HMS Endeavour – En-Garde – Essex – Ferret – Goliath – Greyhound – HMS Hound – HMS Hyena – HMS Interceptor – HMS Invincible – Jack Sparrow's corvette – Kingfisher – Lawrence Norrington's ship – Man O' War – Monarch – HMS Newcastle – Panther – HMS Peregrine – Perseverance – HMS Phoenix – Predator – Pride of London – HMS Providence – HMS Raven – HMS Resistance – HMS Rose – HMS Success – Tally-ho – HMS Trepassey – Vanguard – HMS Victor – HMS Victory
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