pirates
in stocks.

Gordon Greer in stocks.

"I nearly risked my estate to rescue you the last foolhardy time you snuck in dressed as a boy. And you nearly risked the stockade."
―Lady Devonshire to Carina Smyth[src]

A stockade, also known as stocks, was an instrument of torture that locked people's head and hands, forcing their body to be in a bent position.

History

During the war of Jolly Roger, the former Black Pearl crewman Gordon Greer was betrayed to the naval authorities by his own sister June, and ended up locked up in the stocks in Fort Charles, Port Royal.[1] The French Pirate Lord Chevalle was once captured by the East India Trading Company and kept in a stockade in Fort Charles, where he was sentenced to death by hanging before he escaped.[2] Many years later, the young astronomer Carina Smyth nearly risked the stockade when she snuck into the local university disguised as a boy and her ruse was discovered.[3]

Behind the scenes

Stockades first appear in the 2003 video game Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.[4] Although they did not appear in the film itself, one stockade was featured in the deleted scene "Carriage Ride" originally included in the film's DVD/Blu-ray release.[5]

In the 2011 non-canonical LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game, the level based on At World's End shows people associated with pirates locked in the stocks with marines throwing them fruits instead of being hanged like in the film.[6]

In Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure, as the visitors approach the Flying Dutchman, they can see two undead pirates locked in the stocks at the bottom of the sea.[7]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean Online
  2. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (video game)
  3. ↑ The Brightest Star in the North: The Adventures of Carina Smyth, pp. 121-122
  4. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (video game)
  5. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (In deleted scene(s))
  6. ↑ LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game
  7. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure