- "I hoped that fact wouldn't have to become public knowledge, sir, because when I docked in London, the EITC office there put me in a carriage and ordered me to go see Captain Bainbridge's family. So I could tell them... he was gone."
- ―Jack Sparrow to Cutler Beckett
A carriage is a four-wheeled vehicle for people, most commonly horse-drawn. The carriage was especially designed for private passenger use and for comfort or elegance, though some were also used to transport goods or prisoners. Coaches were a special category within carriages. They are carriages with four corner posts and a fixed roof. Two-wheeled war chariots and transport vehicles such as four-wheeled wagons and two-wheeled carts were forerunners of carriages.
History[]
- "We will take my carriage to Marseille and be there by midnight."
"Oh. Oh, fabulous." - ―Chevalle and Jack Sparrow
When he docked in London, England, Jack Sparrow was put in a carriage and ordered by the EITC Office to go see Captain Nathaniel Bainbridge's family.[5] The French Pirate Lord Capitaine Chevalle owned a carriage which he used to travel from his mansion to Marseille and back.[6]
A carriage outside the Weatherby Swann's Mansion.
Prior to Captain James Norrington's promotion ceremony, Governor Weatherby Swann and his daughter Elizabeth left their mansion in a horse-drawn carriage which made its way toward Fort Charles, where Norrington's ceremony was to take place.[2] One year later, when Governor Swann broke his daughter, Elizabeth, out of prison and hastily drove a carriage to the waiting ship, Terpsichore. As they neared the dock, the governor slowed the carriage to a stop as he saw Captain Hawkins killed by Mercer.[3]
A carriage outside the Spanish royal palace.
Prior to the quest for the Fountain of Youth, a gold-trimmed carriage raced over cobblestones up from a harbor at Cádiz, Spain, and arrived at the Spanish royal palace. Meanwhile, in London, England, to effect the rescue of Joshamee Gibbs, Captain Jack Sparrow arranged for the driver of a paddy wagon to take them outside of Londontown, where they would make the coast that night. Following Joshamee's trial, Jack joined Gibbs in the back of the paddy wagon, where the two pirates found themselves at the gates of St. James's Palace rather than freedom. While making his escape in London, Jack swings down from the palace into a moving carriage, and into a Society Lady's lap, before climbing out, onto the roof of the carriage. Royal Guards spot Jack as he tried jumping onto a second carriage, only to straddle between two carriages. Jack was forced to push the driver aside a slow-moving coal wagon, then snaps the reins, but the horses don't respond as the Captain of the Guard and his men chase the notorious pirate on horseback behind him. After the Guards aim and shoot, hitting a lantern mounted on the side of the wagon, lighting the coal, the horses leap forward, frightened. The flaming cart races beneath an arch, pursued by soldiers on horseback as it careens down the street.[7]
About one year later, after the crew of the Dying Gull deserted him, Captain Jack Sparrow decided to try his luck as a land pirate―a highwayman. However, Sparrow's first and only attempt at robbing a horse-drawn coach on the outskirts of Saint Martin Town failed miserably when the pirate stepped onto the road too late, and the coach drove right by him.[8][9]
Behind the scenes[]
- Carriages first appeared in the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.[2]
- In the 2017 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Captain Jack Sparrow decided to try his luck as a land pirate―a highwayman. However, his first and only attempt at robbing a coach on the outskirts of Saint Martin Town failed miserably when he stepped onto the road too late, and the coach drove right by him. Although the "Highwayman" deleted scene was cut,[9] it was retained in the film's novelization.[8]
Appearances[]
- The Price of Freedom
- Legends of the Brethren Court: Day of the Shadow (Mentioned only)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- In Jack We Trust!
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
- The Secret of Galileo's Diary
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (In deleted scene(s))
- LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game (Non-canonical appearance)
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Notes and references[]
- ↑ The Price of Freedom
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
- ↑ The Price of Freedom
- ↑ Legends of the Brethren Court: Day of the Shadow, Chapter Ten
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Pirates des Caraïbes: La Vengeance de Salazar - Le roman du film, p. 60
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Deleted Scene: "Highwayman"