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Monarch (ship)

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"The whole town speaks of you. The only survivor of the Monarch."
―John Scarfield to Henry Turner[src]

The Monarch was a British Royal Navy warship active in the Caribbean during the Age of Piracy.

History

It is unknown when the Monarch was built, but by 1751[6] she was under the command of Captain Toms. As a warship of the British Navy, the Monarch was occasionally engaged in hunting and destroying pirates in the Caribbean. During one of these pirate hunts, the Monarch entered the Devil's Triangle, falling prey to the Silent Mary and her ghostly crew, led by the Spanish Navy officer Armando Salazar. The whole Monarch crew was slaughtered by the ghostly crew and only Henry Turner was left alive in order to tell the tale. The Monarch was then completely destroyed.[1][2]

Behind the scenes

The Monarch first appeared in the novelization for the 2017 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.[1][2] It was portrayed by the same prop that portrayed the Silent Mary and the Essex.[citation needed]

In the film, the Monarch was not called with the prefix HMS (His Majesty's Ship) nor does it fly any flag of the British Royal Navy or any symbol of the Kingdom of Great Britain. However, Helen O'Loan's artwork shows the ship flying the Union Jack and the Red Ensign, a flag which was historically used by Royal Navy's Red Squadron which patrolled the waters of the Caribbean and the North Atlantic.[7] The ship was also called the H.M.S. Monarch in Jeff Nathanson's 2013 Dead Men Tell No Tales screenplay draft.[8]

Historically, the Royal Navy had a warship named the HMS Monarch in 1751, a year in which Dead Men Tell No Tales is set. Unlike the POTC ship, the real Monarch was sold for breaking up in 1760.[citation needed]

In Pirates of the Caribbean Online, the Monarch is a war galleon which can be found in the waters around Padres Del Fuego. It is unknown if the ship in Dead Men Tell No Tales was meant to be the same ship from Pirates Online, though it is unlikely.[citation needed]

In Terry Rossio's 2012 screenplay draft for Dead Men Tell No Tales, one of the ships owned by the Spanish Royal Navy was the Monarca (which means Monarch in Spanish), a thousand ton Spanish galleon.[9]

Appearances

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Novelization
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
  3. ↑ Disney Pirates: The Definitive Collector's Anthology, p. 116
  4. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Novelization, p. 17
  5. ↑ Pirates des Caraïbes : La Vengeance de Salazar - Le roman du film, p. 20
  6. ↑ As evidenced by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: Movie Graphic Novel, the events of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales are set in 1751.
  7. ↑ Red Ensign on Wikipedia, 4 October 2024: "Prior to the reorganisation of the Royal Navy in 1864, the plain red ensign had been the ensign of one of three squadrons of the Royal Navy, the Red Squadron, as early as 1558. By 1620, the plain red ensign started to appear with the Cross of St George in the upper-left canton."
  8. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales script by Jeff Nathanson, second draft, 5/6/2013
  9. ↑ Wordplayer.com: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES by Terry Rossio
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