Showing posts with label Black Pearl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Pearl. Show all posts

Saturday, September 01, 2007

An Act Of Piracy

So, Who’s Going To Walk The Plank, Then?

A ship touring the UK and being promoted as the Black Pearl from the Pirates of the Caribbean films has been exposed as phoney - by a 12-year-old. Thousands of people paid to clamber aboard the HMS Bounty, advertised as star Johnny Depp's sinister ship. But when Ross Winstanley and his mother Julie visited the vessel in Torquay, Devon, he realised the deck and cabins were not the same as those on the Black Pearl, so he confronted the crew. Tour organisers admitted the Bounty only appeared briefly in the films - as the Edinburgh Trader. It was made for the 1960 film version of the famous 1789 mutiny.

FOOTNOTE: Sounds like a bad case of cabin fever.