Bristol
- "Did poor Robby ever get home? Back to his family, and the farm?"
"Yes. A year or so after we began sailing together, we docked in Bristol. Robby went looking for his family, only to discover that some kind of pestilence had swept through his village, and both his parents had caught it and died." - ―Amenirdis and Jack Sparrow[src]
Bristol was a city in the region of south west England. A major port, Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. Bristol became a city in 1542 and trade across the Atlantic developed.
History[]
- "First we clean her, then we replace any worn planking. Then we'll need to pay the bottom to protect against weed and worm. For that we'll need fat and soap. And then we tallow her. And, if Mr. Beckett will spring for it, perhaps we'll sheath her, too."
"What about coating her with black stuff?"
"That's the last step. We're not in Bristol or Liverpool." - ―Jack Sparrow and Robert Greene, talking about the Wicked Wench[src]
In the early 1690s, John Avery sailed from Bristol as master aboard a privateer vessel, until the crew raised a mutiny and turned to a life of piracy, electing Avery as their captain. At an early age, being born in poverty and raised in squalor in the late seventeenth century, Edward Teach left Bristol aboard a merchantman, jumped ship in the Caribbean, and signed on board a privateer.[4] Hector Barbossa grew up in the countryside outside of Bristol.[2][3] During his early years in the East India Trading Company, Cutler Beckett worked in the Bristol EITC office. During that time he obtained a beautiful ebony desk, buying it from a merchant who ordered it from overseas.[1] Robert Greene was press-ganged into the British Royal Navy in Bristol when he accompanied his father to market to sell some pigs. The ten-year-old boy was forced to serve as a powder monkey, but he deserted at first opportunity. Many years later, while serving in the East India Trading Company alongside his friend Jack Sparrow, Greene went ashore when their ship docked in Bristol, looking for his family, only to discover that some kind of pestilence swept through his village, killing both of his parents.[5]
Behind the scenes[]
- "Elizabeth, are you well? Everything shipshape and Bristol fashion? My tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature informs me you are troubled."
- ―Jack Sparrow to Elizabeth Swann[src]
- Bristol would first be mentioned in the souvenir book for Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean,[4] though would be first mentioned in-universe in the 2006 junior novelization for the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.[7]
- In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay for Dead Man's Chest, Jack Sparrow would ask Elizabeth Swann if everything was "Bristol fashioned" prior to the Black Pearl's arrival to Isla Cruces.[8] Though the line never made it into the final cut, it was retained in the film's junior novelization.[7]
- Kevin McNally (Joshamee Gibbs) and Tom Hollander (Cutler Beckett) were born in Bristol.
Appearances[]
- The Price of Freedom (Mentioned only)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (junior novelization) (First mentioned)
Sources[]
- Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Story of the Robust Adventure in Disneyland and Walt Disney World (First identified as Bristol)
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