The Wicked Wench is the main pirate ship from the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction.
Description[]
The Wicked Wench was a Spanish galleon and pirate-ship used during the 18th century. The vessel had white sails with red crosses, a red and black painted hull, and gold designs along with a crest at its back. The Wicked Wench was equipped with at-least eighteen cannons.
Features[]
- Captain's Cabin:
- Gun-Deck:
History[]
Background[]
The Wicked Wench was captained by Captain Hector Barbossa during the golden age of piracy. At some point, Barbossa lead an attack on the Spanish colonized Caribbean island of Isla Tesoro, competing with Captain Jack Sparrow in pursuit of the island's cursed treasure. As Barbossa lead an assault against the island's town Puerto Dorado, his crew ransacked the city while one pirate sought after the treasure using its map and key, only to have the map read and key stolen by Sparrow. While Jack got to the treasure first, the crew of the Wicked Wench seemed to get the treasure by the end.
After Puerto Dorado was burned down in a victory for the pirates, the crew of the Wicked Wench made the island into a pirate's lair. They stored their stolen plunder within the subterranean Dead Man's Cove. During this period, Barbossa was seemingly replaced in his position of captain by another pirate. However, the crew were cursed by their stolen treasure, causing them all to die and be left undead. Isla Tesoro became considered a haunted and cursed place, which Captain Jack Sparrow would return to so he could claim the treasure from their cave lair.
The fate of the ship the Wicked Wench remains a mystery. By the 1950s, a bottle containing a miniature version of the Wench was in the possession of immortal salesman, "Trader Sam", and would sometimes become animate and sink into the ocean during a storm. Whether this referenced the Wicked Wench sinking and/or being trapped within the actual bottle (as some magic users like Blackbeard were known to do) is unknown.
Development history[]
The Wicked Wench was created for the original Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, and inspired The Black Pearl in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. The original captain of the Wench was modelled after Blackbeard, was replaced by Barbossa from the movies.
Appearances[]
Pirates of the Caribbean[]
Guests pass by the Wicked Wench as it attacks Isla Tesoro. In Disneyland Paris, the pirate ship appears closer to Blackbeard's flag-ship The Queen Anne's Revenge from the movies, and is commanded by Blackbeard rather than Barbossa.
Trader Sam's[]
A miniature of the Wicked Wench appears in a bottle in both bars. When the Shipwreck on the Rocks drink is ordered, the Wench is caught in a storm and sinks as skippers act like sailors abandoning ship.
Trivia[]
- The bottled Wicked Wench in the Trader Sam's bars is inspired by a similar ship effect from the Adventurers Club.
- In the continuity of the films (excluding Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales which ignores the continuity of the rest of the franchise), the Wicked Wench was an East-India Trading Company sailing-vessel captained by Jack before he turned to piracy, and which was burned by Lord Cutler Beckett before being returned by Davy Jones as the Black Pearl. The intersection between ride and film continuity is unknown in the parks, where the Black Pearl seems to exist in addition to the Wicked Wench, with both having been captained by Barbossa.
- The cursed treasure of Isla de Muerta appears within the pirate's lair on Isla Tesoro and is referenced in other attractions.
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