Black Pearl

"*Wherever we want to go, we go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs. But what a ship is...what the Black Pearl really is...is freedom.*"
—Jack Sparrow

The ***Black Pearl*** was an legendary galleon-class tall ship and one of the most well known pirate ships of the 18th century. It formally went as the ***Wicked Wench*** under the captains of the pirate captain Morgan before it was turned into an merchant vessel. It was then taken command by Jack Sparrow after Morgan's death and took her to multiple voyages fore the East India Trading Company for Cutler Beckett. However upon liberating cargo-slaves, the Wench was sunked and Jack branded an pirate forever. Jack then made a deal with Davy Jones after failing to save the Wench to restore it, giving Jack thirteen years as captan, in excchange to serve one hundred years on the *Dutchman*. The ship now restored with its charred look, it was renameds the *Black Pearl*.

Two years later, during the quest for the cursed treasure of Cortés, Jack Sparrow lost the Pearl by a mutiny led by his first mate, Hector Barbossa. After ten years of being a cursed ship, with stories being told of the ship preying on ships and settlements, the Black Pearl was regained by Jack Sparrow after he killed Barbossa. For the next year, Jack would captain the Pearl until he was reminded of his thirteen year old bargain with Davy Jones, who demanded the debt was due to be paid. This prompted Jack's search for the Dead Man's Chest, which ended with the Kraken dragging both Jack and his beloved Pearl to Davy Jones' Locker. After escaping the Locker, the Black Pearl sailed for Shipwreck Cove, led by both Jack and the resurrected Barbossa, where it became the flagship of the Brethren Court's armada in the fight against Cutler Beckett's Armada. The titanic battle would end with the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman, now captained by Will Turner, destroying the HMS Endeavour, achieving the pirates victory.

After the battle, Barbossa once again stole the Pearl from Jack with the intention of using it to find the Fountain of Youth. But the Pearl came under attack by the Queen Anne's Revenge, captained by the notorious pirate Blackbeard. Using his sword, Blackbeard turned the Pearl against Barbossa and his crew. Blackbeard then captured the Black Pearl and made it into one of the many ships enclosed in bottles in a special cabinet in Blackbeard's cabin. After Blackbeard's death, Gibbs recovered the *Pearl* from *Queen Anne's Revenge* and he and Jack would try to find a way to release the *Pearl*.

After one year in 1751, the *Pearl* was restored thanks to Hector Barbossa, who used the Sword of Triton to restore it, and was used in the final battle against the Armando Salazar in search for the Trident of Poseidon.

At some point, the *Black Pearl* was brought into the Pearl family from Jack and Jasmine, who wrote an letter that it was to be given to Butch Florida after their deaths, due to his semi-immortality state (the curse lingers as him no longer capable of age when the Trident was destroyed). Butch lived into the 21st century where descendants of Jack and Jasmine located him and handed him the *Black Pearl*, becoming the new captain and the "Last Pirate Lord of the Seven Seas". The *Pearl* would be sail once again after departing Whitecap Bay and secured in Butch's privately own shipyard in Fremantle alongside the Revenge*.*