The Greatest Sea Battle in Pirate Cinema
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I've previously made a full video analyzing the history behind the first Pirates of the Caribbean move. In this analysis I didn't have the time to cover the sea battle between the Black Pearl and Interceptor. It is probably one of the best pirate sea battles seen in cinema, and for being part of this franchise, strangely accurate.
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Master and Commander is not a movie about pirates and does not take place during the Golden Age of Piracy(1630-1730) which I cover on this channel. There are other channels out there which cover Master and Commander and Napoleonic Wars in good detail but not so many which show the GAoP the same respect.
One of the interesting things about this movie is that a lot of conflict could have been avoided had they not been pirates acting like pirates, like "hey Will can we borrow your blood and throw that coin back" would be all they needed to ask.
Not pirate related.....but master and commander has some outstanding detail in regards to naval combat.
For the Intercepter getting a leak, it’s entirely possible the right amount of stress from the combination of cannon fire and Club-Hauling led to the weakening of the hull. It’s not unheard of for the cannons recoil to cause damage to the ship (helped that they stopped bolting them to the floor)
So THAT'S what the Black Pearl is! I've been laboring under the assumption that she was a galleon. An East Indiaman like the Amsterdam, Gotheborg or Bonhomme Richard makes so much more sense given the setting in the 1730s, and since in the tie-in books Jack first made her acquaintance while working with the East India Company.
You forgot 1 detail and that is when Jack Sparrow is in the jail cell on the Black Pearl he says "stop blowing holes in my ship!" Which I think is true you don't want your pirate ship to get holes in it cause it's probably hard to repair it, it's not like the navy where you can return to port and get repairs done easily
They're immortal pirate ghosts who would walk the ocean floor, sinking the ship is an option for them and so is just killing them. irl tho I totally agree
Regarding the Interceptor starting to sink, I always took it as damage sustained when the foremast came down. That is when you see collapsed wood and water spraying below the deck, so it may be the bottom part of the broken mast that damaged the hull as it slipped to one side.
Wind dead astern actually isn't the fastest for a sailing ship. A 90 degree angle relative to the wind is actually the fastest.
Still can't match real battle like the battle of Trafalgar on 1805
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Good analysis. Only one point of contention, regarding visible bullets with trails.
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This is definitely one of my favorite sea battles. But I still wondered at how fast both ships were going at dead astern. I hope you do give an analysis of the Black Pearl being chased by the Flying Dutchman?
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Wonderful video and commentary. I like this chase and battle too from a historical point of view. It is much more accurate than one might think. Anyway the critisism is spot on. Fun fact: the gunpowder trail in the film is regular modern smokekess powder which is slow to burn. The old black gunpowder of the era would have burnt far too fast to allow the pirates to escape the Interceptor. In reality a fuse would have been used. Anyway, just some trivia I gave read. Cheers! 🏴☠️
I know your focus is on the "golden age" period, but I'd love to see you do a video or two on some "latter day" pirates like Benito de Soto or Jean Lafitte, if nothing else than for comparison sake to how pirates in their era operated compared to the "golden age". You've got a refreshingly well-researched approach to history that would be great for covering guys like that, definitely a breath of fresh air on current UA-cam.
You should do a video analyzing Master and Commander
Something i'd like to see a video on is the final confrontation of Beckett on the Endeavour, where the Black Pearl and Flying Dutchman sail alongside and destroy it despite the fact the Endeavour is a 1st rate with more guns per side than either the Black Pearl or flying Dutchman have total.
Man you got me hooked on pirate history, fantastic work! Keep it up!