The Black Pearl - Mersey Visit this Saturday Aug 18
PIRATE’S PEARL MAKES MERSEY VISIT
UPDATE: It is HMS Bounty which is on tour and arriving in Liverpool.
I am told by a former crew member of HMS Bounty (Dennis Stephens) that this is NOT actually the same thing as the Black Pearl although Bounty did appear in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, she played a cargo ship called the “Edinburgh Trader�. She was the ship in the second movie that got eaten by the Kraken (mythical sea monster).
I can't really verify it one way or the other but as Mr Stephens points out, the Bounty website never mentions the Black Pearl at all, there seems to have been a mix up.
Hollywood’s most famous ship – The Black Pearl HMS Bounty - arrives in Liverpool this Saturday.
And members of the public are invited to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow to help raise funds for the fire-damaged Cutty Sark.
In real life The Black Pearl - of the blockbusting Oscar-winning Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy – is a full-size replica of the original HMS Bounty. (or is it?)
It was actually built for the 1962 film ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’, starring Marlon Brando, which looked at the infamous Royal Navy mutiny of 1789 in the Southern Pacific Ocean.
HMS Bounty will dock in Liverpool at the South Quay of Canning half-tide dock, facing the Merseyside Maritime Museum, on Saturday August 18 2007.
It will be open to the public between 10.00 and 17.30 and tours feature costumed characters from the two famous films.
The 91ft long Tall Ship is making a world tour to help raise funds for The Cutty Sark which was damaged by fire on May 21 this year.
Adults will be charged £5 to board and children (under 16’s) go free, all proceeds go towards The Cutty Sark restoration appeal.
As part of the visit there will also be pirate themed street entertainment, provided by the Albert Dock Company.
http://www.tallshipbounty.org/
http://www.cuttysark.org.uk/
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Hi please can you tell me how long the black pearl will be staying in liverpool?
Posted by: hazel lockwood | August 16, 2007 9:18 AM
Its only here for the weekend, sails on the Sunday but don't know what time.
I believe its only open to the public on the Saturday 10-17.30 as above.
http://www.tallshipbounty.org/schedule/
Posted by: Ian Jackson | August 16, 2007 1:45 PM
please can you tell me what time the black pearl docks today
Posted by: rebecca | August 17, 2007 8:47 AM
Sorry, we only have the information above, according to the tallshipbounty website its sailing to Liverpool today so I guess it'll arrive in the evening.
Posted by: Ian Jackson | August 17, 2007 8:56 AM
Black Pearl has left Maryport early (to beat the weather apparantly) can you please advise when it is open to public if getting to Liverpool a day early?
Posted by: Lara Bovington | August 17, 2007 10:27 AM
SEEMS LIKE THE PEOPLE OF LIVERPOOL ARE BEING CONNED ONCE AGAIN . YEH ! IT IS A SHIP , BUT NOT WHAT THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MADE TO EXPECT. STILL THE RUMOUR MILL HAS BEEN ABLE TO EXTRACT THE EXTRA ££££££'s IT WANTED ON A TERRIBLY WET DAY. NOW MOST PEOPLE WILL GO HOME A GO DOWN WITH FLU FOR THE REST OF THEIR SUMMER BREAK.
Thanks for the lie.
Posted by: cev | August 18, 2007 2:02 PM
Oh Dear, must be this wet weather making everyone so miserable. I'm sure The Bounty is still a good ship and well worth seeing for those who are interested in such things.
I don't see that visiting this is any more likely to give people flu than if they went somewhere else.
And the money is to raise funds for the Cutty Sark which was damaged by fire recently
Posted by: Ian Jackson | August 18, 2007 2:12 PM
Everone isn't miserable. Alot of teenagers will have built their hopes up for this.Unfortunatly they will have been persuaded to part with their £££££'s by a trickery of words based on a lie.The Bounty I'm sure is worthy of a visit in it's own right,I think it has been here before tallships 1981 ???, but you and I know that it would not be as commercially successful as the BP, that is what the lie was all about really isn't it ?.And the money is to raise funds for the fire damaged Cutty Sark which once repaired will also go on view at a cost to the public and the profits will go where ???????? I wonder !!!!
Posted by: cev | August 18, 2007 9:12 PM
Yes, fair points cev. I don't believe it was deliberate though.
As for parting with ££££s, well thats the nature of the tourist or entertainment industry isn't it. I don't know where the profits go and don't really care. If you think its worth paying £5 to go round an old ship then you pay up.
Personally its not my sort of thing but I do know that these things are extremely popular.
Posted by: Ian Jackson | August 18, 2007 9:26 PM
I went on the ship today which was 'meant' to be the black pearl and I was very disappointed when I came home to find out it wasnt the actually ship people have been claiming it to be.
I stood in the rain for 2 hrs waiting as I love P.O.T.C and paid £5 to go on a ship that could have been any ship.
Im very disappointed and think the people of liverpool will be too.
Posted by: Charl | August 19, 2007 12:30 AM
Hi, does any one know if this ship is going to be docking anywhere else after liverpool??
Thanks
Posted by: Helena Rigby | August 20, 2007 9:56 AM
Bristol, Hull, Southampton & Portsmouth
according to the schedule at
http://www.tallshipbounty.org/schedule/
Posted by: Ian Jackson | August 20, 2007 10:05 AM
I am a HUGE fan of P.O.T.C and went a long with great expectations for the day. Firstly there wasnt anybody dressed up like anyone from P.O.T.C and there was nothing from just lookng at the ship that was related to P.O.T.C. We waited 1 and a half hours in the rain to go on board and be told that I had to pay £5 for my 13 year old sister when the website said anyone under 16 goes free, so I refused to pay which was well within my rights to do. When we get on the ship the only thing related to P.O.T.C was a very small picture of a scene out of the film at the bottom of a board. I can appreciate that this was a replica of the HMS Bounty and that there would be information about this but if was just going to be about that then the P.O.T.C should not have been mentioned. As people have gone and paid £5 under false pretences and I personally was bitterly disappointed. Unfortunately you may well have shot yourselves in the foot as Im sure other people will read these messages and may change their minds about giving up their time and money. Not only those who love P.O.T.C but the poor children who got dressed up and were very excited about being on a ship used in a film, you can imagine how difficult it is to explain to a child who is vrey disappointed why the ship was not anything like it said it was going to be. I am extremely disappointed as Im sure many other were too, the organisation was disgusting and anyone could have done better.
Posted by: Emma Sinnott | August 20, 2007 12:49 PM
You know, I have to say, whether or not Bounty was the Black Pearl, it's still a replica of a historic ship and very exciting to see and go onboard. Rain or no rain, people made a choice and for the price, I'm sure it was well worth it. It's not every day that a ship of this importance sails into Liverpool or any other harbour.
Posted by: Gary Robinson | August 22, 2007 5:22 PM