The Black Pearl may look like a traditional merchant ship, but there's more to its identity than what's shown on screen. In the real world, the "Pirates of the Caribbean" creation is based on a ...

Despite today’s emphasis on pirates of the Caribbean, the richest ships sailed between the Red Sea ports of Jeddah in modern Saudi Arabia, Mocha in Yemen and Surat in India. But pirates didn’t ...

1. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003). The story begins when the pirate Jack Sparrow arrives in Port Royal to steal a ship, only to be imprisoned by Commodore Norrington.

The pirates of the Caribbean were around 2,400 men at their peak who scoured the seas in the 1710s and 1720s from West Africa to Canada and Brazil in search of riches, according to Pateman.

Since the previous Walt Disney Co. film based on one of its theme park attractions was the unbearable The Country Bears, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is surprisingly not bad.

This design was scrapped for the sequel, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," where it was brought to life using a real ship called the Sunset, as revealed during a 2006 conversation with ...