Wicked Wench (galleon)

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Wicked Wench
Career information
Port of registry	Unknown
Owner(s)	Pirate Captain
Captain(s)	Pirate Captain
Notable crew members	Auctioneer Old Bill Pooped Pirate Coote Billie How Albert
Technical information
Type	Galleon
Weapons	12-18 cannons
Battles	Attack on Puerto Dorado
Behind the scenes
First appearance	Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean
Latest appearance	Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean

"Give 'em a broadside! Pound 'em lads! Pound 'em!"
"We're gonna sink your stinking ship yo!"
"Take 'em below! Clear the decks, lads."

―Pirate Captain and Spanish soldiers

The Wicked Wench was a pirate ship which sailed in the Caribbean Sea in the early 18th century. Under the command of the notorious Pirate Captain, she attacked the Spanish port of Puerto Dorado on Isla Tesoro.

History

A pirate captain aboard the Wicked Wench.

It is unknown how the Pirate Captain acquired the Wench. Some details of her hull and rigging imply that she was a Spanish vessel before she was captured by pirates and converted into a pirate ship.

At some point during the first half of the 18th century, the Wicked Wench sailed for Isla Tesoro, where her pirate crew attacked the Spanish town of Puerto Dorado. Though the Spanish soldiers from the fort managed to break the Wench's fore-mast with their cannon fire, the pirates succesfully invaded the town and captured its magistrate, Carlos. The ship's further fate is unknown.

Design and appearance

The Wicked Wench was a three-masted galleon. Her hull was painted red and black while her stern was decorated in crimson-red and gold colors. Her armament was composed of 18 cannons. Her firepower was strong enough to damage a stone fortress and allow her pirate crew to invade an unsuspecting town.

Behind the scenes

• The Wicked Wench first appeared in Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. In the 2006 revamp of the Disneyland and Magic Kingdom versions of the ride, as well as the 2007 revamp of the Tokyo Disneyland version, the original Pirate Captain was replaced by Captain Hector Barbossa. In these versions, Barbossa was attacking the fort while pursuing Jack Sparrow.
• In Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Sound Track of the Fabulous Adventure the pirate ship that attacks the fort is called the Black Mariah, not the Wicked Wench.
• The Wicked Wench flies the same pirate flag that was historically used by Richard Worley and Blackbeard.
• According to The Pirates' Code Guidelines, Legends of the Brethren Court: The Caribbean, The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook, and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom, the Black Pearl was originally ship named the Wicked Wench. In The Pirates' Guidelines and The Price of Freedom, both based on a backstory featured in the screenplay and "Just Good Business" deleted scene of At World's End, the Wicked Wench was originally an EITC merchant ship owned by Cutler Beckett later given to Jack Sparrow, who renames the ship the Black Pearl.
• The E Ticket memorial pin with the image of the Wicked Wench was released by Walt Disney Imagineering in December 2008.
• The Wicked Wench appears in the non-canon video game Sea of Thieves as a spectral ghost ship captained by Hector Barbossa, attacking Puerto Dorado. Several ghost ships in the Pirates of the Caribbean part of the game (A Pirate's Life) seem to be physically modeled after the Wench.
• The Funko Pop "Wicked Wench Captain" toy was released in 2017.
• A miniature of the Wicked Wench is found at the Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar inside of a bottle. When guests of the bar order a drink called the shipwreck, the bottle comes to life and shows the ship sinking in a storm as cast-members role-play as pirates abandoning ship.
• The Wicked Wench bears some resemblance to popular depictions of the Jolly Roger, the pirate ship of Captain James Hook in Peter Pan, in various Disney media.

Appearances

• Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean (First appearance)
• Virtual Magic Kingdom (Non-canonical appearance)
• Sea of Thieves: A Pirate's Life (Non-canonical appearance)

Sources

• Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies

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 – 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 Fleur de la Mort – 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 – Seref – Siren's Revenge – Song – Sparrow – Storm Reaper – Swift – Troubadour – Venganza –Victory – Wicked Wench
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