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- "There's a female presence amongst us here, sir. All the men, they can feel it."
"It's the ghost of a lady widowed before her marriage, I figure it, searching for her husband, lost at sea."
"A virgin too, likely as not. And that bodes ill by all accounts." - ―Quartermaster, Sailor and Cook
This man was a sailor aboard the Edinburgh Trader during the time of the East India Trading Company's appearance in Port Royal.
Biography[]
At some unknown point in his life, this man became a merchant sailor serving aboard the Edinburgh Trader, under Captain Bellamy. He would serve as a deckhand aboard the ship. Around 1729, the Trader left Port Royal. Whilst mopping the deck, the sailor stumbled upon the dress of stowaway Elizabeth Swann. After presumably alerting the quartermaster and the bursar, a row broke out between these two over what they perceived to be a ghostly threat represented by the dress. The sailor thought the dress to be that of a young woman widowed before her marriage, and that her spirit was searching for her husband lost at sea. The crew had no idea that the dress in fact belonged to the stowaway Elizabeth Swann, who was disguised as a male sailor. Bellamy ordered them to find the stowaway, and, in order to motivate them, he stated that she was probably naked.[1]
The crew searched to no avail, not uncovering the stowaway in the end. However, as the captain was in his cabin, the cook and the sailor saw the 'spirit' flying above them in the air. Unbeknownst to the fact that Elizabeth was using the dress as like a puppet, dangling it from the mast, they assumed that it was a spirit trying to give them a sign. The captain came outside along with the bursar and quartermaster, and they followed the spirit. When the Quartermaster spotted what he thought to be the ghost's sign the deckhand disparagingly noted "that's seaweed". They were alerted by another sailor to a message in the ground reading 'Tortuga', the name of the only free port in the area.[1]
After picking up some new crewmen in Tortuga, the crew of the Trader picked up a man at sea, William Turner Jr., who claimed that he had seen the dress before. As the whole ship suddenly shook, the crew assumed that it was just a reef, but Bellamy was soon grabbed by a tentacle of the Kraken. The sailor was the sole witness of Bellamy being grabbed, but soon the whole crew saw what he saw as the sailor pointed in the direction where he had been pulled overboard. Right as their captain had been hoisted up into the air and then pulled back under the sea in the grip of a massive tendril. The whole crew panicked, and grabbed spears and pistols to defend themselves. The sailor survived the Kraken's attack on the Edinburgh Trader, only to be captured by the Crew of the Flying Dutchman. He would be murdered by Penrod onboard the Flying Dutchman along with the other survivors, stabbed in the head with a sword. His body was taken away by the crew[1] and thrown overboard.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
- The sailor first appeared in the 2006 junior novelization for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.[2] Portrayed by Matthew Bowyer, the character was credited as "Sailor/Edinburgh" in the film's ending credits.[1][4]
- In the Dead Man's Chest comic, the dialogue in which the Edinburgh Trader crew discovered was given to different characters. Compared to the film, the comic had Bursar being given the Quartermaster's lines, and the Quartermaster was given the Sailor's lines.[5]
Appearances[]
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (junior novelization) (First appearance)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (junior novelization), p. 38
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (junior novelization), p. 110
- ↑ POTC2 Presskit
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (comic)
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