Pirate Armada

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Pirate Armada
General information
Leader	Elizabeth Swann
Notable members	Fourth Brethren Court
Ships	Black Pearl Empress At least six more pirate ships
Head­quarters	Shipwreck Island
Other information
Affiliation	Brethren Court Buccaneers Crew of the Black Pearl Barbary Corsairs Crew of the Fancy Jocard's crew Mistress Ching's fleet Sao Feng's Empire Spanish Treasure Fleet Sumbhajee's pirates
Behind the scenes
First appearance	At World's End
Latest appearance	At World's End

"Prepare every vessel that floats. At dawn, we're at war."

―Elizabeth Swann to the Brethren Court

The Pirate Armada, otherwise known as the fleet of the Pirate Lords, was a ragtag fleet of pirate ships that gathered during the meeting of the Fourth Brethren Court to fight against the East India Trading Company. The vessels were all captained by a member of the Brethren, including all nine Pirate Lords and the Keeper of the Code.

Led by the Black Pearl, the fleet met with Lord Cutler Beckett's armada outside of Shipwreck Island, where they would fight each other. Almost all the ships in the fleet didn't take part in the following battle, save for the Black Pearl, though one of the EITC's main ships, the Flying Dutchman, would later switch sides. This event led Beckett's armada to retreat, and a decisive pirate victory.

History

"Then what shall we die for? You will listen to me. Listen! The Brethren will still be looking here to us, to the Black Pearl, to lead. And what will they see? Frightened bilge rats aboard a derelict ship? No. No, they will see free men, and freedom! And what the enemy will see is the flash of our cannons. They will hear the ring of our swords, and they will know what we can do. By the sweat of our brows, and the strength of our backs...and the courage of our hearts. Gentlemen...Hoist the colors."

―Elizabeth Swann to the crew of the Black Pearl

When Lord Cutler Beckett went to war against the Pirate Lords of the Brethren Court, the Brethren had to meet in Shipwreck Cove in order to plan an attack on the East India Trading Company. But when they decided to fight Beckett's armada, they didn't realize that they were numerically outmatched, especially with the Flying Dutchman in the lead. After a parley between the leaders of both fleets, the pirates and the East India Trading Company prepared to battle to the death.

Elizabeth Swann talking to the crew of the Black Pearl.

During the Battle of Calypso's maelstrom, both sides didn't send their entire fleet of ships into battle, only the Black Pearl and the Dutchman went into battle. This action lead to the pirates' victory over the Dutchman, when Davy Jones was killed, in the maelstrom. Afterwards, with the resurrected Will Turner as the new captain of the Flying Dutchman, both the Pearl and the Dutchman brought the destruction of the HMS Endeavour. The other ships of the armada cheered to celebrate Beckett's defeat and the retreat of the remainder of the Company's armada. The war was over.

The Black Pearl leading the armada.

Known ships

• Black Pearl
• Empress
• Captain Teague's ship
• Ching's flagship
• Centurion
• Fancy
• Otter
• Ranger
• Seref

Behind the scenes

• The name "Pirate Armada" was taken from a previous version of the official Disney Pirates website. To describe the hundreds of pirate and East India Trading Company ships that are seen in the film, the word "armada" was used in the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End production notes.
• In the At World's End junior novel, the "fleet of the Pirate Lords" and "ragtag fleet of pirate ships" was used to describe the armada.
• The Black Pearl and the Empress are the only ships in the fleet identified by name onscreen in At World's End. However, though certainty of these details are doubtful, some of the other Pirate Lords' ships can be identified through other Pirates media, such as the Pirates of the Caribbean PocketModel game and the Legends of the Brethren Court book series:
  • Jocard's ship was the Ranger.
  • Eduardo Villanueva's ship was the Centurion.
  • Ammand's ship was the Seref.
  • Sumbhajee Angria's ship was the Otter.
  • Chevalle's ship was Fancy.
  • Ching's flagship is currently unidentified by name.
  • Teague has at least two ships, the Misty Lady in Jack Sparrow: Sins of the Father and the Troubadour in The Price of Freedom, neither of which are confirmed to have appeared in At World's End.
• In the Shanghai Disneyland attraction Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure, at least one of the CGI models for the Pirate Armada from At World's End (the ship with a dragon figurehead, visible to starboard of the Black Pearl during Elizabeth's speech) appears to have been reused for the ride's finale sequence projections, depicting at least one sunken vessel raised from the bottom of the ocean and one pirate ship on the surface.

Appearances

• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (junior novelization) (First appearance) (First identified as fleet of the Pirate Lords)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (comic)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: The Movie Storybook
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Penguin Readers)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (video game)
• The Dragon Tile!
• LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game (Non-canonical appearance)
• Kingdom Hearts III (Non-canonical appearance)

Sources

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide
• DisneyPirates.com (First identified as Pirate Armada)