#port royal

[i-dont-know-anything-anymore]

Pirates of the Caribbean + Text Posts

#PoTC #pirates of the caribbean #pirates of the caribbean text posts #captain jack sparrow #elizabeth swann #will turner #jack the monkey #captain barbossa #pirate king #davy jones #port royal #the ocean #davy jones locker #the black pearl #the curse of the black pearl #dead man’s chest #at worlds end #text posts #mine

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 2 - Port Royal

#kingdom hearts 2 #kh2 #port royal #scenery #my gif #this world is so dark i had to crank the brightness up for these #they put a lot of detail in the captain's room of the black pearl #i don't have access to the other ship because it got blown up but i'm sure that one looked good too

[ancientorigins]

Explore the underwater wonders of Port Royal, once the 'wickedest city on earth,' now submerged and preserved underwater.

#Port Royal #Jamaica #pirates #earthquake #underwater #sunken city #Caribbean #ruins #ancient #history #ancient origins

[the-twelve-daggers]

a moment of appreciation for THIS particular track

thank you hans zimmer i appreciate you 🙏

#[🧭: misc] #istg i can picture the whole scene as its playing :') #pirates of the caribbean #potc #the curse of the black pearl #dead man's chest #at world's end #on stranger tides #dead men tell no tales #the twelve daggers #tortuga #pirates #the black pearl #davy jones #jack sparrow #will turner #elizabeth swann #port royal #davy jones locker #hector barbossa #james norrington #lord cutler beckett #playlist #potc playlist #fandom #Spotify

[federer7]

Josie, six year old, Bertha, six years old, Sophie, 10 years old, stand outside the cannery where they shuck oysters for a living. Maggioni Canning Co. Port Royal, South Carolina, 1911

Photo: Lewis Wickes Hine

#lewis wickes hine #port royal #south carolina #1911 #lewis hine

[theultimatepotcescapade]

Commodore James Norrington - by AntVar

#potc #potc fanart #pirates of the caribbean #james norrington #commodore james norrington #on stranger tides #port royal #jack sparrow

[khtrinityftw]

Show someone this clip devoid of context please.

#Kingdom Hearts II #Port Royal #Jack Sparrow #Barbossa #Pete

[pamwmsn]

📸: Kathy Crowe

Beautiful scene with the moon over Carolina Girl and the other shrimp boats at the 11th Street Docks in Port Royal.

#port royal #south carolina #shrimp boats #carolina girl

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003, Gore Verbinski)

08/04/2024

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 film directed by Gore Verbinski; produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and distributed by Buena Vista International.

Created and written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio, the film is the first chapter of the Pirates of the Caribbean series and inspired by the Disney Parks attraction of the same name. The main cast includes Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow, Geoffrey Rush, Keira Knightley, Orland Bloom, Kevin McNally, Jack Davenport and Jonathan Pryce. Positively received by critics and the public, the film received several awards and five nominations for the 2004 Oscars (best leading actor, best make-up, best sound, best sound editing and best special effects).

Caribbean, circa 1720. Little Elizabeth Swann and her father, Governor Weatherby Swann, are in the English ship HMS Dauntless taking them to Port Royal, when a little boy named Will Turner is brought aboard. When Elizabeth notices that Will has a gold locket with a skull engraved around his neck, she takes it from him and hides it because it may be proof of Will's piracy.

On the day of his investiture, Norrington declares himself to Elizabeth, who however, suffocated by her too tight corset, falls from the battlements of the fort and ends up in the sea; by doing so, she activates the medallion, which attracts the Black Pearl, i.e. the ship seen eight years earlier. Meanwhile, Elizabeth is saved by a bizarre character who has just arrived in the city, the pirate captain Jack Sparrow, who, chased by the guards, manges to escape by shielding himself with Elizabeth hut then, finding shelter in Will's blacksmith's shop, clashes with him and ends up imprisoned. That same night, the crew of the Black Pearl attacks Port Royal, seeking Elizabeth's gold locket; the latter is captured and taken aboard the ship to meet Captain Barbossa. Through parley, Elizabeth asks the pirates to leave the city in exchange for the medallion and introduces herself as Elizabeth Turner, wanting to hide her identity as the governor's daughter.

#Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl #film #2003 #gore verbinski #walt disney pictures #jerry bruckheimer #Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures #ted elliott #terry rossio #pirates of the caribbean #johnny depp #jack sparrow #geoffrey rush #keira knightley #orlando bloom #kevin mcnally #jack davenport #jonathan pryce #academy awards #76th Academy Awards #Caribbean #elizabeth swann #List of Pirates of the Caribbean characters #port royal #will turner #piracy #Corset #Black Pearl #hector barbossa #parley

[khguides]

Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me! 🏴‍☠️⛵

We're continuing the Port Royal adventures in #KingdomHearts 2 during the Walkthru Wednesday stream tonight!

👑 http://khguides.tv 💙

🕠 5:30p Central

#kingdom hearts #kingdomhearts #khguides #twitch #port royal #livestream

[cooljamaicauniverse]

St. Peter's Church, Port Royal, Jamaica

Mark Phinn Photography

#jamaica #jamaica attractions #architecture #photography #heritage tourism #markphinnphotography #church #photographydiary #visitjamaica #Port Royal #St. Peter's Church

[i-dont-know-anything-anymore]

Pirates of the Caribbean + Text Posts

#PoTC #text posts #pirates of the caribbean text posts #elizabeth swann #captain jack sparrow #tia dalma #potc gibbs #The black pearl crew #cutler beckett #commodore norrington #captain barbossa #davy jones #the black pearl #text post #mine #Mine #will turner #pirates #port royal

[gummi-ships]

#kingdom hearts 2 #kh2 #sora #port royal #my gif #i never noticed that sora has a big smile on his face as he fires the cannons #i love discovering new things about a game i've played 4975439 times #no matter how small it is #also donald in the back beating a pirate to death is pretty cool too

[ltwilliammowett]

When morality goes overboard

Service in the navy could be quite boring. Ships were sent out to protect ports or trade routes, but that didn't mean they actively sailed. On the contrary, it also happened that they simply lay in a harbour and had to wait there. This is what happened to Lieutenant Edward Wheeler on board HMS Grafton, a 70-gun warship that seemed to be rotting away in Port Royal in 1742. For apart from waiting, repairing, saluting an admiral and waiting again, nothing happened. However, this led to the men losing all discipline and brawls broke out, sailors pushed each other into pudding basins, one boatswain told a lieutenant to "kiss my arse" and even junior officers were heard to sit in convivial company at the "seat of ease" by the light of a lantern in the warm Caribbean night, calling their captain a "crazy old rascal" and a "drunken fool". And such statements were not exceptional in such services.

Which, by the way, led to severe punishments and even Wheeler being thrown out of the Navy for a short time. He was reinstated shortly afterwards, however, and was able to continue his career.

#naval history #hms grafton #lieutenant edward wheeler #1742 #port royal #age of sail #a tiny anecdote

[the-twelve-daggers]

🏴‍☠️ ⤷ Davy Jones: The Truth Behind The Ruthless Villain

Several of the pirate characters in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise were based off of or inspired by one or a mix of real-life pirates, most of whom sailed during the Golden Age at the beginning of the eighteenth century when the franchise itself was set. This applies to the movie's mystical characters too, like Armando Salazar and Hector Barbossa.

However, concerning the initial trilogy's villain, this is a bit of a grey area.

Whilst there are various myths and direct sources linking to the origins of concepts like Davy Jones' locker and Jones' ship The Flying Dutchman, the actual man himself has very vague historical links (unless, miraculously, he was based on The Monkees singer, which I highly doubt).

But, nonetheless, let us look through the theories...

Davy Jones: The Welsh Pirate

One story suggests that the Davy Jones character came from the frightful pirate David Jones, who sailed during the 1630s in the Indian Ocean. However, there is little known about him, which only makes this concept even more unclear.

"During the 1630s, a pirate captain named David Jones sailed through the Indian Ocean, but many historians believe that he was not famous enough to be remembered for quite a long time." [Kouachi, Mecheri & Zerrouki 25]

There are also rumours of a Welsh pirate Dafydd Jones, though it is unclear if these are the same two people. Either way, there is too little known about the figure(s) in order to make strong connections. But, having said that, if the myths of his ruthlessness are true, there is definitely a connection that can be made to our contemporary Davy Jones.

Davy Jones: The Pub Owner

A slightly stronger theory that has been circling around is the figure of a London pub owner, who would drug and/or heavily intoxicate his customers and sell them to ship captains, where they would wake and find themselves unwillingly in the middle of the ocean, or technically, 'Davy Jones' Locker'.

Some stories go on to say that Jones eventually became bankrupt, stealing a ship and becoming a pirate himself. He would sail around the Atlantic, keelhauling or decapitating other crews as well as locking them to their sinking ships.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any direct references to quote, but I have linked some articles below that discuss this theory.

Davy Jones: The Prophet

There are some rumours that Davy Jones, or at least the origins of his name, derives from Saint David, the patron Saint of Wales, as well as the figure of the prophet Jonah from the Bible, who was swallowed by a whale.

I think it better to include this in the words of W. Pinkerton, in the scholarly journal Notes & Queries in 1851:

During many years of seafaring life, I have frequently considered the origin of this phrase, and have now arrived at the conclusion that it is derived from the scriptural account of the prophet Jonah. The word 'locker', on board of ship, generally means the place where any particular thing is retained or kept, as "bread locker", "shot locker", "chain locker", &c. In the sublime ode in the second chapter of the Book of Jonah, we find that the prophet, praying for deliverance, described his situation in the following words:—"in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about; the depth closed me round about; the earth with her bars was about me." The sea, then, might not be misappropriately termed by a rude mariner, Jonah's locker—that is, the place where Jonah was kept or confined. Jonah's locker, in time, might be readily corrupted to Jones's locker; and Davy, as a very common Welsh accompaniment of the equally Welsh name, Jones, added, the true derivation of the phrase having been forgotten. [Pinkerton 509]

Davy Jones: The Devil

A very early (perhaps even the second after Defoe's writing in 1726) mention of Davy Jones' and his Locker is in 1751, in Chapter XIII of Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. Here, Jones is described as a devilish sort of character, with a terrifying appearance that almost resembles the typical imagery of Satan:

“By the Lord! Jack, you may say what you wool; but I'll be damned if it was not Davy Jones himself. I know him by his saucer eyes, his three rows of teeth, his horns and tail, and the blue smoke that came out of his nostrils. What does the blackguard hell's baby want with me?[...]” This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, shipwrecks, and other disasters, to which a seafaring life is exposed; warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. No wonder then that Trunnion was disturbed by a supposed visit of this demon, which, in his opinion, foreboded some dreadful calamity. [Smollett 105]

This was then illustrated in 1832 by George Cruikshank, visualising all of the characteristics mentioned above.

Whilst this depiction is rather different to the one we get in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, with horns rather than tentacles and blue smoke rather than the classic pipe, it's still interesting to see how Davy Jones was sometimes thought to be as horrifying as we see him now, simply based on his involvement with death at sea.

Overall, I hope that we get to find out more about the initial myths and legends that surround Davy Jones in real-world context, as I think that the information from word-of-mouth stories that we have so far are compelling already. I would love to read more older texts that reference him or his Locker, so that we might gain a better understanding of his place in seafaring history.

CITATIONS:

[Abdenour Kouachi, Ahmed Soufyane Mecheri, and Zina Zerrouki. Tracing The Origin Of The Stereotypical Image Of Pirates. 2021. https://bucket.theses-algerie.com/files/repositories-dz/1921423357564832.pdf]

['Notes and Queries'. Vol. 3, Issue. 86. 1851, pp. 490-512. https://archive.org/details/sim_notes-and-queries_1851-06-21_3_86/page/512/mode/2up]

[Merchant Mariner Guide. Davy Jones: The Legend, The Pirates, and The Flying Dutchman. 2023. https://merchantmarinerguide.com/blog/f/davy-jones-the-legend-the-pirates-and-the-flying-dutchman?blogcategory=History+]

[Famous Pirates. Davy Jones - Legend, Facts and Biography of Famous Pirate. http://www.famous-pirates.com/pirates-facts/davy-jones/]

[Owlcation. Old Sea Legends: The Incredible Story of Davy Jones and His Locker. 2023. https://owlcation.com/humanities/Old-sea-legends-The-Incredible-story-of-Davy-Jones-and-his-Locker]

[Marine Insight. The Real Story Behind The “Davy Jones’ Locker” 2022. https://www.marineinsight.com/maritime-history/the-story-behind-the-term-davy-jones-locker/]

[Smollett, Tobias George. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. W. Strahan, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, 1784. https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-adventures-of-peregr_smollett-tobias-george_1784_1/mode/2up]

#[⏳: history] #pirates of the caribbean #potc #the curse of the black pearl #dead man's chest #at world's end #on stranger tides #dead men tell no tales #the twelve daggers #tortuga #pirates #the black pearl #davy jones #jack sparrow #will turner #elizabeth swann #port royal #davy jones locker #hector barbossa #james norrington #lord cutler beckett #tia dalma #calypso #david jones #davey jones #squid face

[lowcountry-gothic]

Port Royal, South Carolina. Photo by Kelley Luikey.

#port royal #kelley luikey #birds #hummingbirds #south carolina