Red Bounty

> *''A ship colored in blood red and with gold all around, ye try running from it, but no one has outrun The Red Bounty!''*
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~Sailor telling one of the tales about the ship to Robert Johnson

## Red Bounty

### Cost to sell

100.000 pounds

Red Bounty was a powerful pirate brig that appeared in all 3 Pirate Pigs seasons.

One of the most powerful brigs during late 17th century and early 18th century, Red Bounty served as a powerful merchant ship and later as a powerful pirate ship owned by notorious pirate captain Redbeard.

## Birth of the ship

In 1692 English merchant Sullivan Dickens returned back to England from his first voyage to Caribbean Sea and brought his journal, where he had described it. Many sailors before him had described Caribbean, but no one had done it like him. He said that it's the most dangerous place on earth for a merchant, even worse for a king or queen. He believed, that in order for him to be able to survive in Caribbean, would require a fast, maneuverable and powerful ship, a brig for an instance. That's why he ordered workers in London harbor to build him such ship. Original parts for the ship were taken from a broken schooner, which had served its purpose far too long. After the ship was done, it was exactly as Dickens described it - two masts, six cannon ports on each side of lower gun deck, 5 on upper gun deck, little bit of golden decorations on each side of the vessel, red, fat stripes painted on the ships sides and no prison cell, so that there's a bigger storage area. Some people even described it as the most beautiful ship sailing in Thames. Queen Mary II of England was told by Dickens, that this ship will bring pride to England and it will honor the queen. She was satisfied with this and told him to return after 5 years for a full report of everything. After the ship was done, one last decor was added, figurhead of Queen Mary II and the ship was now called ''Red Queen" to honor queen. The ship sailed away under command of Sullivan Dickens on 16th of June, 1693 to make way for Caribbean.

## Most powerful merchant ship in Caribbean

Now arriving in Caribbean, Dickens knew what he had to do first - establish a proper base of operations and make pirates understand that this is a ship to evade. Within the time, ship truly was evaded by pirates, but one reason of it was because there weren't many pirates left in the area where Red Queen operated, thanks to L'oiseau De Justice, a man o' war commandeered by Admiral Julian de la Chevalier, who had destroyed pirates around Hispaniola. However it wasn't until 1694, when Dickens arrived on an island called Great Inagua. there were couple houses on the island and on the other side of it were ancient temple ruins. Natives, who lived there called Dickens The Red God, mostly because of his ship being red and for rescuing them from Spanish. Dickens decided to purchase land from natives with letting them still live there, they accepted the offer and he ordered his men to start building a mansion up the hill.

## Ambush and a new owner

In 1696, Dickens was transporting cargo to Trinidad, when the ship was ambushed by pirates, who rowed to the vessel in rowboats. Dickens didn't want to give up Red Queen but in the end had to, in order to save himself from dying. He and rest of the crew were stranded on an island. Ship was now owned by the pirate leader - Captain Redbeard. He renamed it to Red Bounty and changed few decorations for his own appeal.

## Trivia

* Ship's design is loosely based off of Jackdaw the pirate ship that was seen in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.
* Red Bounty was captained by Redbeard in season 1, when pigs where part of the crew, later it was captained by all four pigs in season 2, until it was given to Gibbs by the end of season. In season 3 it appears only as a display in a museum during modern times, after the shipwreck is found.
* Its initial service time was from 1693-1732 but after it is resurrected in season 2, it continues to sail from 1760 until 1763.
* It was considered in its time as one of the most powerful brigantine sailing in Caribbean with 20 guns. Later, in 1760, two swivels were added thus making it a 22 gun brig.