Shipwreck

For other uses, see Shipwreck (disambiguation)

This article is about the physical remains of a wrecked ship. You may be looking for the town of Shipwreck or sinking in general.

Shipwrecks at Isla de Muerta.

"Ship to starboard!"
"That's no ship, sir. It's a shipwreck."
"No. She's sailing straight toward us. Open fire!"

―Officer Cole, First Officer Wade, and Captain Toms see the Silent Mary

Shipwrecking is an event that causes a wrecked vessel to become shipwreck, such as a ship striking something which causes the ship to sink; the stranding of a ship on rocks, land or shoal; poor maintenance; or the destruction of a ship either intentionally or by violent weather. A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. Shipwrecking may be intentional or unintentional.

History

The wrecked Santiago.

There were many myths and legends of the seven seas, but the fate of few ships has been debated like that of Juan Ponce de León's ship, the Santiago. Sent to discover the marvels of the New World in the 16th century, the Santiago had been stranded inland by an ancient storm, hidden away on unchartered lands, its shipwreck sitting atop of rocks on the edge of a cliff.

A shipwreck lies off the coast.

When young pirate captain James Sterling discovered the Nemesis run aground on the beach, she was nothing but a wreck. Even so, he knew she weren't no regular ship. Therefore, Sterling decided to repair the Nemesis and take her for his own. Bit by bit, plank by plank, the legendary or dreaded Captain Sterling fixed the Nemesis and restored the ship to her ancient glory, eventually becoming a legend of the seas.

The Silent Mary turns into a burning shipwreck.

The Spanish Navy pirate hunter Captain Armando Salazar was tricked by young Jack Sparrow to sail his galleon, the dreaded Silent Mary, into the haunted waters of the Devil's Triangle. When the Mary struck a reef, the gunpowder aboard the ship ignited, causing a series of explosions which turned the mighty warship into a burning, sinking shipwreck. However, the mysterious powers of the Triangle resurrected both the ship and its crew, dooming them to spend the rest of eternity roaming as terrifying apparitions.

Following their escape from the infamous White Island prison, Jack Sparrow and the former Marine Samuel Rackham ended up in the Cave of the Red Turtle, a place at the bottom of the sea covered by a giant air bubble which served as a graveyard of sunken ships.

Off the coast of Isla de Muerta, lied Shipwreck Cay, where visitors could make out the shapes of half-sunken ships. Worn masts rotted in the air, the only sign of the vessels that lay below the waves. Elsewhere, upside-down hulls could be seen, holes worn away in the wood. It was a graveyard of lost ships, in which many sailors have died upon sailing through this passage. At the end of the quest for the Trident of Poseidon, when Jack Sparrow and Carina Smyth slided down to the dried up bottom of the sea off the coast of the black rock island, Jack spotted dozens of shipwrecks, the ships' sides worn through and covered in barnacles.

Behind the scenes

Overview

Shipwrecks first appeared through the wrecked ship, also described as a ghost ship, seen in the "Hurricane Lagoon" tableaux in Dead Man's Cove featured in Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean. The terms "wrecked ship" or "wrecked vessels" would be used throughout Pirates of the Caribbean media, with the first usage of "shipwreck" being the name of locations, such as in the Disney Adventures comic The Treasure of Shipwreck Island!, which features the titular island not associated with the location of the same name featured in the 2007 film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

In the 2017 film Dead Men Tell No Tales/Salazar's Revenge, when Hector Barbossa reveals his plan to find the Trident of Poseidon and reclaim his rule of the sea, Jack Sparrow mentions the ghostly Armando Salazar's ship, the Silent Mary, saying that "no vessel can outrun that wretched hull of a ship". In the prequel novel The Brightest Star in the North: The Adventures of Carina Smyth, the film's novelization, and the comic book adaptation, Jack says "Firstly, I don't wish to die. Secondly, no vessel can outrun that shipwreck."

Video games

One of the shipwrecks in the Sea of the Damned.

Shipwrecks were meant to appear in Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned, a video game which was scheduled to be released in 2011. But since that game was cancelled, it is unknown if its appearance in the game is canon or not.

In the non-canon video game Sea of Thieves: A Pirate's Life the town of Sailor's Grave in the Sea of the Damned is mostly composed of the remains of wrecked ships.

Appearances

• Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean (First appearance)
• The Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure
• The Price of Freedom
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned
• Six Sea Shanties: Strangers Bearing Gifts‎
• Tales of the Code: Wedlocked
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003 junior novelization)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2006 junior novelization)
  • Fluch der Karibik
• The Black Heart of the Pearl
• The Treasure of Shipwreck Island! (Mentioned only) (First identified as shipwreck)
• The Sails of Doom!
• The Lost Sea
• Revenge of the Pirates!
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (junior novelization)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (comic)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (video game)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (video game)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (comic)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (junior novelization)
  • 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: Tides of War
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (junior novelization)
• The Brightest Star in the North: The Adventures of Carina Smyth
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: Movie Graphic Novel
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Novelization
• Sea of Thieves: A Pirate's Life (Non-canonical appearance)

Sources

• Disneyland: From the Pirates of the Caribbean to the World of Tomorrow
• Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies (First identified as wrecked ship)
• Pirates of the Caribbean Monopoly
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide
• DisneyPirates.com

External links

• Shipwreck on Wikipedia