Troubadour

Career information
Port of registry	Shipwreck Island
Owner(s)	Edward Teague
Captain(s)	Edward Teague
Notable crew members	Jack Sparrow Rufus
Technical information
Weapons	Several cannons
Affiliation	Edward Teague's crew Brethren Court
Behind the scenes
First appearance	The Price of Freedom
Latest appearance	The Price of Freedom

"Yes, Captain Teague commands Troubadour; it's his ship I serve on."

―Jack Sparrow to Hector Barbossa

The Troubadour was a pirate ship captained by Edward Teague, Pirate Lord of Madagascar and Keeper of the Code. It was used by Teague on many voyages as well as being part of the armada of the Brethren Court.

History

"For years I've worried about Teague getting word that I was alive, and hunting me down so he could hang me from Troubadour's yardarm."

―Jack Sparrow to Esmeralda

At some point after Jack Sparrow's teenage adventures, Teague made the Troubadour his ship. With the Troubadour, Teague sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean, capturing several ships of the East India Trading Company. Teague had Jack join his crew on many voyages. On one occasion the Troubadour took a ship carrying a cargo of rum, which caused the whole crew to engage in excessive drinking over the next few weeks. In another attack the Troubadour took a prize off the coast of Portugal, and Sparrow used his share to pay for fencing lessons.

The Troubadour was docked at Shipwreck City when the news of the rogue pirates attacking and slaughtering the crews of the captured merchant ships reached Teague. At first the pirate captain dismissed the rumors, but over time it turned out the news were true. Teague intended to sail the Troubadour in search for the rogues, because their modus operandi was in direct violation of the Code of the Pirate Brethren, and threatened the security of the Brethren Court. Teague also informed Jack Sparrow that he expected him to join the expedition. However, the search for the rogues was postponded by the arrival of Don Rafael, the Pirate Lord of the Caribbean, and Hector Barbossa, a pirate captain whose ship was attacked and destroyed by the rogues.

A few weeks later, Jack and Don Rafael's granddaughter Esmeralda discovered the Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea, Boris Palachnik, was the rogue pirate who destroyed Barbossa's ship. They informed Teague about their discovery and he decided to organize the Court of inquiry. Despite many vitnesses, there was not enough evidence against Palachnik, so the Pirate Lords moved to the Troubadour where they magically summoned Davy Jones, the supernatural ruler of the ocean depths. Jones confirmed Palachnik's guilt, and the rogue was imprisoned and sentenced to death.

Soon, Teague started preparing a fleet to hunt down the remaining rogues. Captain Barbossa intended to join Teague. However, before Palachnik's execution could be carried out, the rogue revealed the French pirate Christophe-Julien de Rapièr was also one of the rogues. The Frenchman and his crew were also imprisoned in the dungeons beneath Shipwreck City. Believing Christophe to be innocent, Jack and Esmeralda sneaked into the captain's cabin on the Troubadour to steal the keys to the dungeons from the Prison Dog. They got the dog drunk with rum and rum-soaked meat but they were almost caught in flagranti when Teague suddenly returned to the ship. The two thieves barely managed to hide in the pantry at the last moment. Fear and close space turned on the youngsters and when Teague left the cabin they passionately made love. When they were finished Jack took the keys and he and Esmeralda left the Troubadour. The further fate of the ship is unknown.

Behind the scenes

The Troubadour first appeared in the A. C. Crispin book The Price of Freedom, published in 2011, where it was identified as the pirate ship of Captain Edward Teague.

It's possible the Troubadour made an appearance in the 2007 film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Two different ships were shown flying Teague's Jolly Roger before and after the battle of Calypso's maelstrom, one from the mainmast and one from the stern flagstaff. Teague was shown standing on the quarterdeck of the second ship. It's also possible one ship is the Troubadour and the other the Misty Lady, Teague's ship from the Young Jack Sparrow book series. The prequel novel Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom established that Teague has a fleet of ships under his command. However, the identity of both ships was never identified in the film nor by The Walt Disney Company.

Appearances

• The Price of Freedom (First appearance) (In flashback(s))
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Possible appearance)

Notes and references

Pirate ships in Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirate ships Adventure – Black Barnacle – Black Bart's ship – Black Dog – Black Harbinger – Black Pearl – Black Pearl (frigate) – Buzzard – Centurion – Ching's flagship – Cobra – Cursed crew's pirate ship – Cutlass – Death Omen – Dolphin – Dragon – Dying Gull – Empress – Fancy – Fleur de la Mort – Fortune – Fuchuan – Ghostly Seadog – Gretchen – Grim Reaper – Hai Peng – Hanyu Pinyin – Harkaway – HMS Interceptor – Jack Sparrow's sloop – Jack Sparrow's corvette – Jack Sparrow's galleon – Jack Sparrow's bilander – King George's Amnesty – Kin Tai Fong – Kirbac – Koldunya – La Vipère – Misty Lady – Monkeebutt – Nemesis – Neptune – Ningpo – Otter – Paradox – Pearl – Phantom – Pirate galleon – Princess – Queen Anne's Revenge – Ranger – Red Dragon – Revenant – Revenge – Royal Fortune – Ruddy Rose – Satisfaction – Sea Nymph – Sea Star – Seref – Siren's Revenge – Song – Sparrow – Storm Reaper – Swift – Troubadour – Venganza –Victory – Wicked Wench
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