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Career information
Port of registry	Nantes, France^[1] (formerly) Nassau (formerly)
Owner(s)	Rene Montaudoin^[1] (formerly) Blackbeard Hector Barbossa
Captain(s)	Pierre Dosset^[1] (formerly) Blackbeard Hector Barbossa^[2]
Notable crewmembers	Crew of the Queen Anne's Revenge
Passengers	Jack Sparrow Philip Swift
Technical information
Type	Frigate^[3] Fully Rigged Battleship
Speed	Possibly 20 knots (under the Dark Magic sails)
Weapons	38 cannons^[4] 2 Greek fire cannons^[3]
Battles	War of the Spanish Succession Capture of La Concorde Skirmish with the HMS Scarborough Blockade of Charleston War of Jolly Roger Capture of the Black Pearl Mutiny on the Queen Anne's Revenge Attack on Whitecap Bay
Affiliation	Crew of the Queen Anne's Revenge Jolly Roger^[5] English Merchant Navy (as Concord) French Merchant Navy (as La Concorde de Nantes)
Behind the scenes
First appearance	Pirates of the Caribbean Online
Latest appearance	On Stranger Tides
Portrayer	Sunset

"This be the Queen Anne's Revenge, right enough."
"How do you know?"
"I've seen the name. On the back of the ship."

―Scrum and Jack Sparrow^[src]

The Queen Anne's Revenge was an infamous pirate vessel, formerly known as Concord and La Concorde de Nantes. Imposing, terrifyingly beautiful, a brutal beast of the sea, this legendary ship of the seven seas comes to life, as long as its captain wielded the Sword of Triton.

Bristling with cannons and spiked with human bones, the Queen Anne's Revenge was the flagship of the notorious pirate Blackbeard. Under his command, the Revenge was manned by zombies, festooned with the bones of his victims and spat fire from its bow to incinerate many enemy ships, or the occasional crew member fallen out of favor. During the quest the Fountain of Youth, Blackbeard held no ordinary ship's crew, but a crew consisting of a mixture of humans and zombies. After the death of Blackbeard, the Revenge and its crew would be led by Hector Barbossa.

1 History
2 Design and appearance
3 Behind the scenes
4 Appearances
5 Sources
6 Notes and references

HistoryEdit

A merchant shipEdit

The ConcordEdit

She was built in England in 1710 and named Concord. At first she served as merchant ship but she was captured by French privateers a year later. While in France, her stern was modified to resemble that of the Dutch flute, and she was later sold to Spain. In 1713 she was returned to France and again underwent a transformation. She was eventually sold to Rene Montaudoin, a French merchant who refitted her as a slave ship and renamed La Concorde de Nantes.

La Concorde de NantesEdit

La Concorde left Nantes on March 24, 1717. The ship was armed with sixteen cannons and had a crew of seventy-five. On July 8, La Concorde arrived at the port of Judas, on the coast of West Africa. There they took on a cargo of 516 captive Africans. The captain and officers also obtained about twenty pounds of gold dust for their own account. La Concorde took nearly eight weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the hardships of the notorious Middle Passage took their toll on both the Africans and the French crew. By the time they reached the Caribbean, sixty-one slaves and sixteen crewmen had perished.

After crossing the Atlantic, and only 100 miles from Martinique, the French ship encountered two pirate sloops, one with 120 men and twelve cannons, and the other with thirty men and eight cannons. The pirates were led by none other than Blackbeard, a notorious pirate captain. With the French crew already reduced by sixteen fatalities and another thirty-six seriously ill from scurvy and dysentery, the French were powerless to resist. After the pirates fired two volleys at La Concorde, Captain Dosset surrendered the ship.^[1]

The pirates took La Concorde to the island of Bequia in the Grenadines where the French crew and the enslaved Africans were put ashore. While the pirates searched La Concorde, the French cabin boy, Louis Arot, informed them of the gold dust that was aboard. The pirates searched the French officers and crew and seized the gold. The cabin boy and three of his fellow French crewmen voluntarily joined the pirates, and ten others were taken by force including a pilot, three surgeons, two carpenters, two sailors, and the cook. Blackbeard and his crew decided to keep La Concorde and left the French the smaller of the two pirate sloops. The French gave their new and much smaller vessel the appropriate name Mauvaise Rencontre (Bad Encounter) and, in two trips, succeeded in transporting the remaining Africans from Bequia to Martinique. Soon, Blackbeard doubled the number of the ship's guns and renamed her the Queen Anne's Revenge, in honor of Queen Anne of Great Britain.

Blackbeard's pirate shipEdit

The Queen Anne's RevengeEdit

"Where am I?"
" 'Scuse me, Captain Sparrow, sir. I be right honored to welcome you aboard our world-renowned vessel of infamy—Queen Anne's Revenge."
"...Blackbeard."

―Jack Sparrow and Scrum^[src]

Leaving Bequia in late November, Blackbeard with his new ship cruised the Caribbean taking prizes and adding to his fleet. From the Grenadines, Blackbeard sailed north along the Lesser Antilles plundering ships near St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Nevis, and Antigua, and by early December he had arrived off the eastern end of Puerto Rico. From there, the pirates were headed to Samana Bay in Hispaniola. By April 1718 the pirates were off the Turneffe Islands in the Bay of Honduras. It was there that Blackbeard captured the sloop Adventure, forcing the sloop's captain, David Herriot, to join him. Sailing east once again, the pirates passed near the Cayman Islands and captured a Spanish sloop off Cuba that they also added to their flotilla. Turning north, they sailed through the Bahamas and proceeded up the North American coast. In May 1718, the pirates arrived off Charles Town in South Carolina, with the Queen Anne's Revenge and three smaller sloops.

Blockade of Charles TownEdit

In perhaps the most brazen act of his piratical career, Blackbeard blockaded the port of Charles Town for nearly a week. The pirates seized several ships attempting to enter or leave the port and detained the crew and passengers of one ship, the Crowley, as prisoners. As ransom for the hostages, Blackbeard demanded that the pirates be given a chest of medicine. The medicines eventually delivered, the captives were released, and the pirates continued their journey up the coast. Before they departed, the pirates also plundered all valuables from the captured ships.

GroundedEdit

In June 1718, Blackbeard's fleet attempted to enter Old Topsail Inlet in North Carolina. During that attempt, the Queen Anne's Revenge grounded on the ocean bar and was abandoned. Blackbeard then disbanded his fleet except for the Adventure and twenty men. But after the battle of Ocracoke Inlet, Blackbeard saved the Queen Anne's Revenge, and she served as his flagship once again.

War of Jolly RogerEdit

"Invasions, Fleets, and now the Queen Anne's Revenge. 'Tis a time of great conflict in the Caribbean."

―Unnamed townsfolk^[src]

Some time after he repaired the Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard assembled a new crew. All of them were jumbees, malevolent supernatural beings, well-known throughout the Caribbean. Enslaved by Blackbeard's Dark Magic, they served their master without question.

Soon, Blackbeard put LaSchafe, his loyal jumbee first mate, in charge of the Queen Anne's Revenge. But, in 1740s, during the War of Jolly Roger, the undead pirate Jolly Roger managed to take control of LaSchafe, his soulless crew, and the Queen Anne's Revenge.^[5] Controled by Jolly Roger's voodoo powers, the Revenge and her ghastly crew started to attack pirate ships in the Caribbean.^[4]

For many months, the Queen Anne's Revenge sailed around wild islands like Isla Cangrejos, Isla Perdida, and Isla Tormenta, attacking ships of the Brethren Court.^[4] But, through unknown circumstances, Blackbeard managed to retake the Revenge.

Warning: MAJOR SPOILERS for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides follow.

Later yearsEdit

"We were off the coast of Hispaniola when we came under attack. No provocation nor warning or offer of parley. We were peppered with cannon fire."

―Hector Barbossa to Jack Sparrow^[src]

Later, Blackbeard added more cannons onboard the ship and some zombies to the crew. He also installed Greek fires aboard the ship, which he used on a number of occasions. During one of Blackbeard's raids, on a remote island, a missionary named Philip Swift was captured and taken prisoner aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge. At that time, Blackbeard's daughter Angelica joined the crew as a First Mate.

Shortly after the War Against Piracy, the Queen Anne's Revenge was sailing off the coast of Hispaniola, when she encountered the Black Pearl, a ship of the notorious pirate Hector Barbossa. After firing a broadside at the Black Pearl, Blackbeard used his magical sword to bring the rigging of the Black Pearl to life. At Blackbeard's command, the rigging caught the entire crew, except Barbossa, who managed to free himself by cutting off his own leg.^[2]

Search for the Fountain of YouthEdit

"I thought I should give you fair warning: we're taking the ship."
"¡Desgraciado!"
"It's nothing personal!"
"¡Sparrow, ven aquí o te arranco la cabeza!"
"You might be better off if you just..."
"Ya!" [shoves sword into door]
"...stay out of it."

―Jack Sparrow and Angelica^[src]

In 1750, Blackbeard sent Angelica to London to find Jack Sparrow, a pirate captain who had knowledge of how to get to the Fountain. After Jack escaped from King George's palace, Angelica forced him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge. They sailed for the Caribbean, but King George sent after them the HMS Providence, captained by Hector Barbossa, Jack's old nemesis, now a privateer in the service of England.

At some point during the journey, Jack Sparrow attempted to raise a mutiny aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge. However, Blackbeard used his sword and his voodoo powers to crush the mutiny relatively easy. A few days after the attempted mutiny, Blackbeard led the Queen Anne's Revenge to Whitecap Bay, where he and some of the crewmen managed to capture a mermaid named Syrena. After that, Blackbeard's crew went ashore, leaving the Queen Anne's Revenge docked in a protected cove.^[2]

The new captain Edit

"The Revenge is mine."

―Hector Barbossa^[src]

While Blackbeard's men guarded the Revenge, Joshamee Gibbs was able to sneak aboard and steal Blackbeard's collection of shrunken ships in a bottle, the Black Pearl among them. After Blackbeard's death, his crew joined a privateer named Hector Barbossa, who turned to piracy once again. His first order as the ship's captain was to set sail for Tortuga. The further fate of the ship is unknown.^[2]

Warning: MAJOR SPOILERS for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides end here.

Design and appearanceEdit

"Still, I pray for every unfortunate soul on this hellbound vessel."

―Philip Swift^[src]

The Queen Anne's Revenge was a three-masted frigate. Her stern was decorated in red and gold colors. Legends say that the Revenge was built by Blackbeard's victims, though in reality, it was actually constructed from them as well. The bow and the stern castle were decorated with numerous miniature skeletons, while the outer walls of Blackbeard's cabin were decorated with numerous skulls of Blackbeard's victims.^[6]

Like many other pirate ships, the Queen Anne's Revenge flew its own Jolly Roger flag. Blackbeard had two different variations of his pirate flag aboard the Revenge. The first flag had a great horned skeleton holding a goblet of wine in one hand and a spear in the other, as if he's toasting his victims—this would later be used in the design of the Revenge's figurehead.^[7] The second flag was a large skull with flames, which revealed Blackbeard's passion for forbidden dark magic.^[6]

The secret weapon located at the bow of the Revenge was based on the Greek fire device of the Byzantine Empire. Unleashed by the skeletal figurehead, a sulphurous spray spreads all the fiery terror of the inferno. The stern of the Revenge had lit whale oil lanterns. A stunning stained-glass window can be seen where a nightmarish vision was painted on the stained glass window, which depicts dead men writhing in flames.^[6]

During the quest for the Fountain of Youth, the Queen Anne's Revenge had a mysterious advantage over the other ships racing for the Fountain. Holding no ordinary ship's crew, the Revenge carried a crew consisting of a mixture of humans and zombies alike.^[6] After Blackbeard's death at the Fountain of Youth, the zombies died along with him.^[8]

Unlike the Black Pearl, the Queen Anne's Revenge had a spritsail topmast at the end of the bowsprit. The Revenge was also heavily loaded with sails to keep it moving even in low winds. The ship's sails were painted blood red, but they were dirty, torn and tattered from long use and many battles.^[9]

Behind the scenes Edit

The Queen Anne's Revenge was portrayed by the Sunset in On Stranger Tides.^[10] The Sunset previously portrayed the Black Pearl in Dead Man's Chest and At World's End. In 2010, the Sunset was redesigned to portray the Queen Anne's Revenge.
In real-world history, the Queen Anne's Revenge was armed with forty cannons but she wasn't saved from the sand bar in 1718. She was stripped of Blackbeard's pirate plunder and abandoned, six months before Blackbeard's death.
The Queen Anne's Revenge and the Santiago were the first historical ships that appears in POTC film series.
In Pirates of the Caribbean Online, the Queen Anne's Revenge is crewed by jumbees led by LaSchafe.
The Queen Anne's Revenge appears briefly in Tim Powers' novel, On Stranger Tides, which was used as the basis for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. She has no active role in the novel.
In Rick Riordan's book, The Sea of Monsters, the Queen Anne's Revenge is stolen from Blackbeard by the protagonists.

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AppearancesEdit

Pirates of the Caribbean Online (First appearance)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game (Non-canonical appearance)

Sources Edit

Notes and referencesEdit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 A Brief History of Blackbeard & Queen Anne's Revenge
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: The Visual Guide, p48.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Pirates of the Caribbean Online
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Looking Back Over The Stern
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: The Visual Guide
↑ Did You Know? ...On Stranger Tides edition
↑ In the original Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides screenplay, the zombies decomposed as Blackbeard died at the Fountain of Youth. But as that scene was altered, it is unknown of the fate of the zombies, though it is assumed that the zombies died as there were no zombies under Barbossa's command.
↑ Last Sail, First Voyage
↑ http://www.movieweb.com/movie/pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides/PGhkGoijlmd3jq

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