Red Dragon

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Red Dragon
Career information
Port of registry	Unknown
Captain(s)	Unknown
Notable crew members	Pirate with Broom
Fate	Destroyed by the Silent Mary
Technical information
Weapons	32 cannons
Battles	Destruction of Barbossa's fleet
Affiliation	Barbossa's fleet
Behind the scenes
First appearance	Dead Men Tell No Tales
Last appearance	Dead Men Tell No Tales
Cause	Destroyed

The Red Dragon was a two-masted pirate ship in the Caribbean in 1751.

History

It is unknown when the Red Dragon was built, but by 1751 she was one of the ships in the pirate fleet of Captain Hector Barbossa. One day the Dragon encountered the Silent Mary, a Spanish Royal Navy galleon that was transformed into a terrifying ghost ship during decades of imprisonment in the infamous Devil's Triangle. As the Spanish ship slowly approached the unsuspecting pirate vessel, one of the undead seagulls that always surrounded the Mary landed on the gunwale of the pirate ship, right in front of one pirate. At first, the pirate thought that he was hallucinating, seeing a rotten corpse of a bird that still moved like a living creature. However, the next moment he saw the Silent Mary on the horizon. As the Mary sailed right into the starboard side of the Dragon her bow opened like the jaws of a giant sea monster. Seemingly indestructible, the Spanish ship crushed the pirate ship, cutting her in half like a razor. All the pirates were killed except one who was spared to tell the tale of Salazar's return.

Behind the scenes

• The Red Dragon first appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. It was portrayed by the same prop that played at least three other pirate ships: the Ruddy Rose, the Queen Anne's Revenge, the Wicked Wench and the Black Pearl.
• The ship was identified as the Red Dragon in Jeremy Love's concept artworks for Dead Men Tell No Tales, However, the ship's name was never mentioned in the film. While Love's concept artwork shows the Red Dragon as a 17th century Spanish galleon, she is portrayed as a two masted 18th century vessel.
• It is possible that the Red Dragon makes an appearance in the Dead Men Tell No Tales comic book adaptation. In the comic book, the Silent Mary destroys an unnamed ship of Barbossa's fleet that looks similar to Jeremy Love's concept artwork of the Red Dragon. The Silent Mary also destroys an unnamed pirate ship immediately after the sinking of the Devil's Triangle in the film's novelization.

Appearances

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (First appearance)

Sources

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

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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