How to make a Queen Anne's Revenge ship. "Black Pearl" frigate, galleon or hodgepodge (14 photos). Stained glass depicting hellfire

Concept art for the film “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”.

Captain Edward Teach, nicknamed Blackbeard:

Blackbeard's Saber - Sword of Triton.
Interesting note, the design of the Sword of Triton features a trident throughout. In the fifth film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Jack, according to the plot, will have to find the Trident of Poseidon, which gives power over the seas. Let us remember that Blackbeard’s saber is now in Barbossa’s possession. I wonder what the creators are preparing for us, and how it will all be connected?

This photo, taken by Peter Mountain, shows Blackbeard (Ian McShane) lifting the supernatural Sword of Triton. The sword was designed by artist Miles Teeves.
With Triton's sword, Blackbeard is able to animate his ship, creating what the film's screenwriters Ted Eliot and Terry Rossio described as "a massive web of ropes and rigging, intersecting here and there, all the pirates ensnared, tied up, caught like flies." This can be seen in the illustration below by Wil Medoc Riis.

Blackbeard's captain's cabin on the Queen Anne's Revenge:

Stained glass depicting hellfire:

"We thought it would be cool if Blackbeard's cabin had a stained glass window at the rear of the ship, lit by a huge lantern from the outside," says John Mair. “For me it was the light that created the atmosphere of the cabin - an angry, agitated flame moving in the window.”

The interior of Blackbeard's cabin, as sketched by Dean Tschetter, was built in "Sound B" at Pinewood Studios in London and included a large section with a window. “We had a lot of fun designing the set,” says Mair, “because in our version Blackbeard had supernatural powers, so we threw a lot of occult stuff around as well as normal navigational gear. You have all his power and wealth and spoils, but also a fantastic layer of magic and alchemy.”

Blackbeard's ship "Queen Anne's Revenge":

A colossal, eerily beautiful, brutal beast of the seas, the Queen Anne's Revenge, as depicted by illustrator Wil Madoc Riis, is Blackbeard's vessel and the embodiment of his own dark version of life... and death. “It’s amazing to work on a pirate film and design the ship,” enthuses John Mair. “Because the Black Pearl is not physically featured in the story, Disney asked us to use the ship as the basis for Queen Anne's Revenge.” So we literally just cut off the top of the ship and were then free to do whatever we wanted.

I wanted Queen Anne's Revenge to look like the most commanding ship on all the seas. Designing something like Queen Anne's Revenge is what I love most about working on films. I started painting all these beautiful baroque details for the ship, which gave it a rich and elegant look. We showed the drawings to Jerry Bruckheimer and the film's director, Rob Marshall, and they liked them. But Jerry said something interesting: that "Blackbeard has to be the scariest pirate ever in a PKM movie." Jerry said that since the most famous pirate flag is a skull and crossbones, we should figure out how to weave skulls and skeletons into the ornaments, decorations and design of the ship. And I agreed: “Yes, what a great idea!” I remember Ossuary, the famous “Church of Bones” in Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. This is an amazing church, which is decorated with bones. And I thought, "Wow, what if, instead of doing all these complicated carvings, I just used the bones of Blackbeard's victims as the design for Queen Anne's Revenge?" So we made moldings from arm bones, leg bones, jaw bones, and a wall of skulls, based on the idea of ​​Blackbeard burning his victims in a giant lantern at the bow of the ship."

“The carving placed above the breakwater of Queen Anne's Revenge is based on Blackbeard's real-life flag, a horned skeleton holding a wine sponge in one hand and a spear in the other, as if he were toasting the victims,” notes John Mair.

The famous ossuary of the Czech Republic.
When coming to the Czech Republic, many tourists first go to the famous ossuary in the city of Kutna Hora. This unique chapel fascinates and at the same time frightens with its mystical appearance.
It has existed for several hundred years. The uniqueness of this chapel is that it is essentially a cemetery for 40 thousand people. Its existence began when in the 13th century one of the abbots of a nearby monastery, after a trip to Jerusalem, brought a handful of earth from there and scattered it in the cemetery. It was after this that this land also began to be considered sacred and all the dead were brought here for burial. During these years, a plague epidemic broke out in the Czech Republic and people began to die out in the hundreds. There was not enough space in the cemetery, and human remains were dug up and stored in the basement of the chapel. Thus, more than 40 thousand deaths have accumulated. Then the owner of this land commissioned one of the craftsmen to decorate the interior with human bones. Bones were used as building material. They have been carefully processed, bleached and disinfected. This kind of ossuary has survived to this day. Over the course of time, the chapel was restored several times. The last changes here took place in the 19th century. Now it is made in the Gothic Baroque style.

Absolutely every interior detail in the chapel is made of bones, from the ceiling to the vases and chandeliers. Visiting this place, many tourists are breathtaking from the beauty and at the same time fear from the human remains. The whole meaning of this structure lies in the inevitability of death and its mercilessness.

Famous designers worked on the overall interior, combining the naturalness of bones with high art. Particular emphasis here is placed on crosses, altars and wall inscriptions. All this is brought together and forms a complete picture, which bears the appearance of death.

Blackbeard's flag. Concept development:

The real flag of the Blackbeard Pirates:

The flag depicts a skeleton holding an hourglass (a symbol of the inevitability of death) and preparing to pierce a human heart with a spear. The flag was supposed to warn oncoming ships about the danger of resisting pirates - in this case, all prisoners would face a cruel death. For some time, instead of a skeleton, the flag depicted a pirate.

According to the script plot taken from the book series “Pirates of the Caribbean” by E.S. Crispina, the future "Black Pearl" was originally called "Wicked Wench" and was owned by the East India Company as a merchant ship. It was a three-masted galleon with a golden-yellow hull and snow-white sails.

It is not known for certain when exactly the ship was built, but Lord Cutler Beckett, director of the West African Representative Office of the East India Company, received it at a very advanced age.

The "Slutty Wench" was docked in Calabar (Africa, Gulf of Guinea) at the very moment when the brig "Fair Wind" under the command of Jack Sparrow arrived at the port. Fair Wind also belonged to the East India Company. The ship's captain, Nathaniel Brainbridge, was killed by Esmeralda, the terror of the Caribbean and the pirate lord of the time. But Jack Sparrow, the first mate of the Fair Wind, saved the ship from falling into the hands of pirates. Cutler Beckett, having received Sparrow's report on how he saved the ship and most of its cargo from pirates, was so impressed that he offered him the captaincy of the Slutty Wench.

Captain Jack Sparrow, commanding the "Slutty Wench", carried out many contracts for the East India Company on behalf of Lord Beckett..." (http://otdatshvartovy.ru/vymyshlennye...l#more-50)

Everything would be fine, but!

Britain, and in particular the British East India Campaign, were only able to establish outposts and settlements in southern Africa after the bankruptcy of the Dutch East India Campaign in 1794.
Scottish missionaries appeared in Calabar only in 1846, and a British protectorate centered in Calabar did not appear until the 1880s.

In other words, there was no West African representation of the British East India Campaign and, therefore, Dutch ships could have been stationed in the port (and not in the docks) of Calabar in the 17th - 18th centuries.
The first white settlers settled in the south of the African continent in 1652, when the representative of the Dutch East India Company, Jan van Riebeeck, founded a provisions point near the Cape of Good Hope to supply ships traveling from Europe to Asia.

This means that a “merchant ship of the British East India campaign” could not exist in nature.

But if you forget about the English origin of Cutler and Jack Sparrow, or the British origin of “Wicked Wench,” then attention is immediately drawn to the Dutch ships of the 17th century and, above all, pinnaces.

One of the first creations of the free republic of the Netherlands (in 1582 the Dutch were finally freed from Spanish protectorate) was the East India Company, founded in 1602 with the permission of the Estates General.

Thanks to its own well-built and durable fleet, the company, which received a monopoly on trade with Asian countries, soon becomes one of the richest in the world. A type of new merchant ship appears. These ships had three masts and were armed with 16 to 20 small cannons, although they were not intended for combat. The average displacement of East Indian ships was about 600 tons. The ratio of hull length to width for ships of this type was even greater than that of the galleon. To give the ship strength, the frames were placed at a short distance from each other, and in places where the masts were installed they were made double. The set was supported by horizontal and vertical brackets. The ship's hull was made of oak wood - in total, at least two thousand well-dried oak trees were required for construction. When cutting wood, care was taken to ensure that the bend of the fibers matched the shape of the part being cut. A part made in this way became “eternal.” They preferred to fasten oak planks to the frames using wooden tenons - iron nails rusted too quickly in salty sea water. Meanwhile, nails were used to fasten less critical elements of the ship's structure. So, in order to protect the ship below the waterline from wood-boring beetles, the lower part of the hull was additionally sheathed with thin elm boards. The nails that secured this “second skin” were placed so tightly together that their heads formed an almost continuous iron coating.

The spacious deck of East Indian ships was free, and in the bow it was limited by a transverse bulkhead (bikged). The protruding nasal tip - the latrine, the design of which was adopted from the galleys, was limited by smoothly curved slats (regels). In the low quarterdeck at the stern there were officer cabins with wide, bright windows. A galley was usually equipped under the tank. Many new technical devices appeared that made the team’s hard work easier. For example, they begin to use a special cat-beam to lift the anchor. The pump helps sailors quickly pump out water that has leaked into the holds. And to load goods on merchant ships, horizontal winches were installed - windlasses.

A couple of decades pass, and in England, which did not want to come to terms with the loss of the title of “Queen of the Seas,” they begin to build military frigates. The ancestor of the first frigate, built in 1646 by the famous British shipbuilder Peter Pett, was a Dutch pinnace with its high stern superstructures, blind topmast and rich decor.

Look at the replica of the Dutch pinnace "Kalmar Nukel" built in 1625 and the first English "true frigate" - the 34-gun "Constance Warwick", built by Peter Pett in 1646 and compare them with the "Black Pearl".

Queen Anne's Revenge is the universally recognizable name of the great pirate's ship. On this ship the famous filibuster reached the climax of his pirate career. The capture of this ship, previously called the Concorde, occurred in 1717; until that moment it was a merchant, 14-gun French ship, with a displacement of slightly more than 200 tons. It is not known for certain why Teach gave the ship such a rather strange name; according to one version, it was a tribute to the memories of the past, because earlier, during the reign of Queen Anne, Edward was in military service.

After the capture, Teach showed a rare and unusual good nature for him in the future: he gave the captain his sloop and all the slaves he (Teach) had at that time, with whom the would-be captain successfully reached the waters of Martinique.

Renaming the ship to " Queen Anne's Revenge"was only a small part of the ship's upcoming changes. Blackbeard cut additional holes for the cannons and increased their number in total to 40 pieces! Even a small group of pirates on a schooner instilled fear in merchant ships, let alone a bloodthirsty robber, whose ship was second only in firepower.

The Siege of Charleston in May 1718 is Captain Teach's most famous moment of success on the Queen Anne's Revenge. The end of the famous ship was not a great naval battle, but a banal ship running aground in June 1718 off the coast of North Carolina.

In April 2012, archaeologists made a statement about the discovery of a vessel that was planned to be raised from the seabed in the future.

Reconstruction of Blackbeard's pirate ship

1. Stern light. 2. Blackbeard's flag. 3. Mizzen yard. 4. Rhea. 5. Mizzen mast. 6. Mainmast. 7. Utah deck. 8. Quarterdeck. 9. Mignon (4 pounds). 10. Additional gun port. 11. Swivel cannon (1 pound). 12. 8-pounder gun. 13. Saker (6 pounds). 14. Deck beams. 15. Waist. 16. Main gun port. 17. Cut tank. 18. Foremast. 19. Sprint topsail. 20. Bowsprit. 21. Place of the figurehead (lost in a storm even before the ship was captured by pirates). 22. Cat-beam. 23. Nose. 24. Anchor (one of three). 25. Coil of cable. 26. Capstan. 27. Crew quarters. 28. Cockpit hatch. 29. Ballast (stones and spare gun barrels). 30. Water supplies. 31. Hold (archaeologists found traces of golden sand here). 32. Locker with ammunition. 33. Crew chamber. 34. Pump. 35. Ladder. 36. Capstan. 37. Rum storage and arsenal. 38. Warehouse of dried provisions. 39. Captain's cabin. 40. Blackbeard's cabin. 41. Aft windows. 42. Stern gallery.

Fifteen people on Dead Man's Chest

Queen Anne's Revenge- the only real sailing ship from the film series "Pirates of the Caribbean", the pirate's flagship Edward Teach(Edward Teach or Edward Thatch) nicknamed Blackbeard(Blackbeard).

The sailing ship was built in 1710 in Great Britain, when in 1713 it was bought by the Spanish fleet, the ship bore the proud name “Concord” (La Concorde) and was a three-masted ship measuring approximately thirty-six by eight meters, with a displacement of three hundred tons, armed with twenty-six cannons. Neither exact information about the appearance and structure of the sailboat, nor illustrations of it were found. The only image of a sailboat is in the monograph by J. Boudriot. After the Spaniards, the ship was bought by the French. And for several years, Concorde was transporting slaves in the Caribbean. In 1717, the sailing ship was captured by pirates led by Blackbeard.

Edward Drummont(Edward Drummond), that was actually Tich's name, was an Englishman, presumably born in the 80s of the seventeenth century. During the war between England and France, the so-called "Queen Anne's War", he was a privateer and robbed French and Spanish ships in Caribbean Sea with Benjamin Hornigold. It was no coincidence that he received his nickname, since he really was the owner of a luxurious black beard, into which he wove black ribbons. He did everything to live up to the image of the most terrible pirate in the Caribbean. There was a song about him "Fifteen Men on Dead Man's Chest"- that was the name of the small island of the Caribbean Sea, where he landed 15 people from his team for an organized riot, leaving them only rum and sabers, in the hope that, after getting drunk, they would go crazy and kill each other.

The Concorde crew surrendered Blackbeard virtually without a fight. Two small sloops captured an almost three-ton ship. So great was Blackbeard's fame among Caribbean sailors. What is noteworthy is that the pirates did not kill the crew of the sailing ship, but simply landed everyone on the nearest island, leaving them with one of their sloops.

Renamed Concorde to "Queen Anne's Revenge" and made it his flagship. The ship was partially rebuilt and its armament increased to forty guns. The number of the ship's pirate crew was up to 150 people.

In two years Blackbeard robbed about forty ships, and now led a whole flotilla of pirate ships (another famous ship of Edward Teach - “Adventure”).

The most famous of all Teach's antics was the blockade of the entrance to the harbor of Charleston (South Carolina) in May 1718. And already in June of the same year "Queen Anne's Revenge" ran aground and then sank in Topsail Bay off the coast of North Carolina (the area of ​​what is now Beaufort Bay).
According to some sources Blackbeard was shipwrecked while trying to hide from his pursuers; according to another version (which is more likely), the ship was scuttled on purpose, since the pirate no longer needed this sailing ship, widely known among seafarers. He himself was killed on November 22, 1718 by the English lieutenant Robert Maynard, who was hired specifically for this by the Governor of Virginia, Alexander Spotswood.

Since then about adventures Blackbeard and its famous sailing ship is legendary; its prototype is in the works of Daniel Defoe and Robert Stevenson. But the pirate and the ship became most famous thanks to the film

It so happened that more than two centuries later, exactly on the day of Teach’s death, on November 22, 1996, divers of the Intersol group in Beaufort Bay (North Carolina) found an anchor claw sticking out of the silt.

Anchor of the sailboat “Queen Anne's Revenge”

After the examination, it became known that the anchor belonged to the legendary sailing ship "Queen Anne's Revenge". The search continued, and the collection of the North Carolina Maritime Museum was replenished with many exhibits from the famous sailing ship. These are several cannons, weapons, a ship's bell (dated 1709), a large number of cannonballs, and navigational instruments. In the spring of 2012, work began on raising the wreck of the ship.

Model of a sailboat at the North Carolina Museum