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

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 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.

When 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, Sterling fixed the ship and restored her ancient glory, eventually becoming a legend of the seas.

The Silent Mary turns into a burning shipwreck.

The Spanish Royal Navy pirate hunter Armando Salazar was tricked by 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.

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.

Behind the scenes

• Shipwrecks first appeared through the wrecked ghost ship seen in the "Hurricane Lagoon" tableaux featured in Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean. It would be referred to as "wrecked ship" or "wrecked vessels" 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!.
• In Dead Men Tell No Tales, when Hector Barbossa reveals his plan to find the Trident of Poseidon and reclaim his rule of the sea, Jack Sparrow mentions the ghost 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."
• 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.

Appearances

• Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean (First appearance)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned
• The Price of Freedom
• 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)
• 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

Sources

• Pirates of the Caribbean Monopoly
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide
• DisneyPirates.com

External links

• Shipwreck on Wikipedia