Jack's Crew

"*Feast your eyes, Captain. All of them, faithful hands before the mast. Every man worth his salt. And crazy to boot.*"
―Joshamee Gibbs[src]

**Jack's Crew** is a ragtag bunch of weather-beaten swabs. Though they do not give the impression of strong and ferocious pirates, they suit Jack more than his previous crew.

## History

### The Curse of the Black Pearl

Jack Sparrow and Will Turner joined forces to commandeer the fastest ship in the British fleet, the *H.M.S Interceptor*, in a gallant attempt to rescue Elizabeth Swann and recapture the *Black Pearl*. After sailing to Tortuga, Jack quickly finds a loyal first mate, sleeping in a pig sty—his old friend Joshamee Gibbs, who agrees to find Jack a crew of men crazy enough to join him on his dangerous adventure.

By morning, Gibbs has lined up a motley crew of weather-beaten, ragged rogues for Jack's inspection. An old sailor by the name of Cotton does not reply when Jack asks him whether he has the courage and fortitude to join the crew—Gibbs explains that he is mute, and has trained his parrot to talk for him. At the end of the line is Anamaria, who has disguised herself as a man in order to confront Jack, and accuses him of stealing her boat—to which Jack promises her the *Interceptor* as repayment after the voyage, and they set sail. The crew faces its first challenge when a ferocious storm hits the ship far out over the Caribbean Sea. United by the danger, the crew battle with the storm and survive, while Jack navigates by his strange compass to Isla de Muerta.

### Dead Man's Chest

The pirates on board the *Black Pearl* are the same ones whom Jack Sparrow and Joshamee Gibbs gathered on Tortuga when they were chasing Captain Barbossa and his crew. However, Anamaria is missing, and new faces have appeared, including the insidious Leech. The crew patiently wait for the return of their captain, as he makes his escape from the Turkish Prison. When Jack brings back a piece of cloth with a drawing of a key, the crew do not hide their disappointment. The Isla de Muerta has been swallowed up by the depths of the sea, taking the countless treasures with it, the British Navy pursues the pirates everywhere, and the *Black Pearl* has met with a hurricane—after all these misadventures, they were expecting something more valuable.

After a visit from his old shipmate Bootstrap Bill, Jack is cursed by the mark of Davy Jones. The Kraken, a creature of dark legend, will find him wherever he flees on the seven seas. Terrified out of his wits and desperate to escape the open ocean, Jack grounded the *Black Pearl* upon spying an uncharted island. When the pirates landed on the island, most of the crew suffered a gruesome fate. They were killed and eaten by a tribe of cannibals, while the ones who survived were trapped in cages built from the bones of their fellow pirates. Salvation appears in one Will Turner, who is once again thrust into Jack's misadventures in order to save Elizabeth.

## Members

* Joshamee Gibbs
* Anamaria
* Marty
* Cotton
* Leech
* Moises
* Kursar
* Matelot
* Tearlach
* Duncan
* Ladbroc
* Crimp
* Quartetto

## External links

* Motley crew on the Pirates of the Caribbean Wiki