The Black Pearl

 i have done some looking into  the ship and  from the information i have  been able to look at  the ship was  an East Indiamen class ship like the batavia not sure of the spelling if you were to look on ebay the same company that is offering a red and black and not very good recreation of the black pearl  also offers the ship the batavia    to  my untrained eye this is ship   if  painted black and  with black sails  would be a  close  recreation  to the ship used in the  movies i got my information from wikipidia   if anyone would like to look for them selves search   the black pearl  and the information should come up

I haven't watched the movie for a while. However I recall that the "Pearl" was a real ship as opposed to a computer generated one. If that is true then there is a real ship out there that portrayed the pearl and someone should know who she is. Maybe I'll check google.

 

Try www.kipar.org/piratical-resources/potc-black-pearl.html

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:Of most importance to the film were the three ships: the Black Pearl, the Dauntless and the Interceptor. For budget reasons, the ships were built on docks, with only six days spent in the open sea for the battle between the Black Pearl and the Interceptor.^[12] The Dauntless and the Black Pearl were built on barges, with computer-generated imagery finishing the structures.^[9] The Black Pearl was also built on the Spruce Goose stage, in order to control fog and lighting.^[9] The Interceptor was a replica of the Lady Washington, fully repainted before going on a 40 day voyage beginning December 2, 2002, arriving on location on January 12, 2003.^[13] A miniature was also built for the storm sequence.^[9]

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[edit] Armament

The Black Pearl is heavily armed, she carries 32 6-pound cannons: 18 on the gun deck and 14 on the upper deck. Its full broadside contains 16 cannonballs and weighs 96 Ibs. (35,8 kg). Strangely, the Pearl does not have any guns neither on the bow nor on the stern which is very unusual for a pirate ship and gives her a grave tactical disadvantage during a chase; the Pearl isn't able to shoot the ship she chases or to reply her hunter's fire. Only her high speed negates this handicap partially. In Dead Man's Chest another advantage the Black Pearl has over her enemies is her ability to hide in the sea at night, if all the ship's lamps are blown out then the ship is no longer visible on the sea thanks to her black hull and sails. This is also seen in Curse of the Black Pearl where she is able to sneak into Port Royal under the cover of darkness, unhindered.

 

[edit] Filming

In the first movie, the Black Pearl was a steel barge with wooden structures built on top to resemble a real ship. In addition, a soundstage set was used to achieve better control over fog machines. For the second and third movies, a floating sailing ship was actually built in the shipyards at Bayou La Batre in Alabama on the hull of ship Sunset to serve as the set, though it is not an authentic tall ship.^[1]

^{Barge photo,   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/image:Dauntlessbarge.jpg}

southern dragon wrote:

screw the black pearl, do the flying duchman!!

 The Dutchman would be great! Now I wonder if there would be a model kit that would be modifiable for a Black Pearl treatment? A true hobbyist would build one from scratch. Arrrrr, that would not be me, mate.

 

Peewee

screw the black pearl, do the flying duchman!!

That's pretty funny - my daughter took one look at the "Caribbean Pirate Ship" and said it looked nothing like the Pearl.

She opted instead for the HMS Ark Royal from Lindbergh as her summer project, no. 70862. Anyone have any idea about what scale this critter is? And no, we are not going to replace the plastic sails

The Revell "Caribbean Pirate Ship" actually does have a Disney connection - but not the one Revell is hoping you'll take for granted.

The kit was originally released in 1960 (my source, as usual, is Dr. Thomas Graham's wonderful book, Remembering Revell Model Kits), in conjunction with the recently-opened Disneyland (the original one, in California).  The kit is in fact a reasonably accurate representation of the full-size "Pirate Ship of Captain Hook" that had been built at Disneyland.  That "vessel" was in turn based on the one in the Disney animated movie "Peter Pan," from 1953.  It has nothing to do with the "Pirates of the Caribbean" part of the park, on which the modern movies were (sort of) based.

Mitsdude is correct:  Revell is recycling this old kit, apparently without any blessing from the Disney people, in an effort to capitalize on the new movies.

Revell makes something they call the "Caribbean Pirate Ship". It comes with glow in the dark paint. Its not based on the movie but to me they are trying to pass it off as the Black Pearl especially to some kid or unknowing adult buying it as a gift.

Heck, they almost got me! I was going to buy it until I became suspicious when I didnt see any reference to Disney anywhere on the box.

Leave it to a couple of lads that hail from Seattle and Tacoma to know this kind of information. Some should have made a model kit of the Black Pearl.

 

Peewee

The brig Lady Washington (http://ladywashington.org/ ) starred in the first POTC movie as HMS Interceptor.

 

(She was also in a Star Trek flick - Generations? - as the brig USS Enterprise in a holo-deck scene, I seem to recall)

Rick 

This is fromthe back reaches of the mind but one of the ships used In the movie was the Miss Washington from Washington State I believe.