Several ships that sailed for the real East India Company showed up in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise - but for some, the only factual bases were their names. East India Trading Company ship names in 'Pirates' Full-size replica of a Swedish East Indiamen. It had a length of roughly 100 feet (30.48 m). The Queen Anne's Revenge was a frigate ship with an alleged 40 cannons and reportedly weighed 200 tons (roughly 181.4 metric tons). In June 1718, shortly after blockading Charleston harbor, Blackbeard ran Queen Anne's Revenge aground while entering Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina.
Blackbeard sailed the ship from the west coast of Africa to the Caribbean, attacking British, Dutch, and Portuguese merchant ships along the way. The ship was later captured by Blackbeard (Edward Teach) and his pirates on November 28, 1717, near the island of Saint Vincent in the West Indies. The most-featured ship in the first film of the "Pirates" franchise is Captain Jack Sparrow's, called the "Black Pearl." In the world of the film, the Black Pearl was originally a merchant vessel that belonged to the East India Trading Company - one the protagonist Sparrow hijacked. Black Pearl's real-life basis in naval warfare The 'Black Pearl' in port. Pirate ships served as a nexus to some of the most compelling stories from their era - when spontaneous raids, betrayals, planks, and cutthroat terms of untrustworthy surrender left the citizens of several colonial nations petrified of the Caribbean waters. The ships from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film franchise felt as notorious and dangerous as the characters themselves - and while some of the ships in the films were built from scratch, none of them could have hit the silver screen without the inspiration of real-life vessels from centuries - and in some cases millennia - ago.
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