Chase gun
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- "Let them taste the triple guns."
- ―Davy Jones to Olgivey[src]
A chase gun, also known as a bow chaser, stern chaser or simply just chaser, was a cannon mounted in the bow or stern of a sailing ship. They were used to attempt to slow down a ship either pursuing or being pursued, typically by damaging the rigging and thereby causing the target to lose performance.
The Flying Dutchman was armed with a pair of triple-barrelled chase guns, secreted in demon-faced gunports in the ship's bow. These rapid-firing chase guns caused extensive damage to the Black Pearl's aft quarters following Jack Sparrow's escape from Isla Cruces, as well as damaged the Pearl later in the Battle of Calypso's Maelstrom.
