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At 2,214 kilometers (about 1,376 miles) long, the Pearl River is the third largest river in China and the largest one in . It is so called because it contains a stone island resembling a huge pearl, polished by the constantly-flowing water of the river. Spanning eight provinces, the river is composed of four river systems including the West River, North River, East River and Liuxi River. The four river systems converge in Guangzhou and flow into the .
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This river is picturesque, adorned by charming views along the river. A cruise along the river in Guangzhou City has become a must for visitors to Guangzhou. Whether you choose a daytime or an evening cruise, it will be a highlight of your trip.SceneryOne can not be considered to have visited Guangzhou if he hasn't cruised the scenic Pearl River. Views along the&river in Guangzhou City are charming and gentle. Historical sites and unique architecture scattered along the river are numerous and are a goodly reflection of the Guangzhou culture. Among them are architectures in Shamian where converge a number of ancient architectures from various countries, the White Goose Pool that is one of the eight most famous scenes in Guangzhou, and ten characteristic bridges. View more .
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Night View of the River, Guangzhou
Night CruiseCompared with the daytime cruise on the river, the night cruise is even more fascinating under the sparkling lights. It starts from the White Goose Pool and ends at the Guangzhou Bridge in the east and Baihedong (White Crane Cave) in the south. This section offers visitors vistas such as 'Night Moon over the Goose Pool' and 'Red Heart of the Pearl River'. Every visitor will be captivated by the beauty of the Pearl River during this two-hour evening cruise.&Further Reading:Note: We are sorry that the booking service for this cruise is not available at present.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Black Pearl, originally Wicked Wench, is a fictional ship in the . In the screenplay, the Black Pearl is easily recognized by her distinctive black hull and sails. The ship was originally named Wicked Wench before she was ordered burned and sunk by .[] She was later raised from the sea floor by
after making a pact with
who rechristened her the Black Pearl. She is said to be "nigh uncatchable". Indeed, in the first three films she either overtakes or flees all other ships, including the Interceptor (regarded as the fastest ship in the Caribbean) and the
(which is actually faster against the wind). Her speed is derived from the large amount of sails she carries. She is noted in At World's End as being "The only ship that can outrun the Flying Dutchman."
Originally named Wicked Wench (Wicked Wench is the name of the ship from the
attraction at , which is shown shelling a fort), the ship was registered to the
and owned by , the EITC Director for . At the time,
was in the employ of the
and was given captaincy of the Wicked Wench (this fits in with reality as history notes that pirates did not build ships specifically to commit piracy. Instead, they either bought or stole small, fast vessels, then retrofitted them with heavy armaments).
(As detailed in the 2011 Disney Publishing novel, , written by )
Jack Sparrow captained the Wicked Wench for Cutler Beckett for about a year, hauling various cargoes, but he refused to haul slaves. Hoping to recruit Sparrow as one of his many "operatives", Beckett indulged what he regarded as an odd peccadillo of Sparrow's until he and the captain came to a parting of the ways. Beckett had dispatched Sparrow on a mission to find the lost island of Kerma, and the treasure at the heart of its underground labyrinth, but Sparrow double-crossed the EITC official and claimed he couldn't locate the island. Suspicious that Sparrow had indeed found the island, and probably the treasure, but had not given him its accurate location, Beckett, determined to browbeat the captain into obedience, demanded that the young captain transport a cargo of slaves to the New World. Initially Sparrow agreed, but when he realized that he was betraying the Wicked Wench, as well as himself, he rebelled and freed the slaves by taking them to Kerma for safe asylum. Furious that Sparrow had flouted his orders and stolen the "cargo" of "black gold", Cutler Beckett had Sparrow thrown into jail. After allowing him to languish for a couple of months, he had him transported to the Wicked Wench's anchorage, about a mile from the coast of West Africa, near Calabar on the Bight of Benin. After personally branding Sparrow with the "P" brand (so he'd be forever branded a pirate) Cutler Beckett gave the order to loose carcass charges at his own ship, the Wicked Wench, in order to totally demoralize his prisoner. Sparrow fought his way free from his guards, dove overboard and attempted to rescue his burning, foundering ship, but he was too late. The Wicked Wench turned into an inferno, then sank, taking Jack with her. But, while dying, the resourceful Sparrow called upon Davy Jones, and struck a bargain with him...his soul and one hundred years serving aboard the Flying Dutchman in return for a continued human existence of thirteen years as captain, plus saving the Wicked Wench and transforming her into the fastest, most dangerous pirate ship sailing the seven seas. Jack christened his resurrected Wench, now a black vessel with an angel figurehead, The Black Pearl.
In keeping with their bargain, Jones raised the ship with Jack aboard in the Harbor of Tortuga to find a crew for his ship. Two years after, the Black Pearl was heading to the mysterious
where the legendary Chest of
was hidden. Captain and crew agreed to equal shares of the treasure, but
persuaded Jack that equal shares included knowing the treasure's location. Jack complied, and soon after Barbossa led a
and marooned Jack on an island.
The crew found the
gold, which was spent very quickly, not believing in the curse placed on it: that anyone who stole the coins would become an
being, unable to feel anything but unsoothable hunger, and that only
would reveal their true form. This curse being real, the pirates were soon hideous living skeletons with tattered flesh and clothing clinging to their bones. Even the Black Pearl was affected by the curse upon its crew, becoming constantly shrouded in an eerie mist, with moonlight revealing tattered sails.
of Barbossa's Crew, which was originally the flag of pirate
The curse could only be lifted when all eight hundred and eighty two coins were returned to the chest along with a trace of blood from each pirate who stole one. , the only crew member who defended Jack during the mutiny, sent a coin to his young son , believing the crew deserved to remain cursed. Barbossa, as Pintel put it, "strapped a cannon to old Bootstrap's bootstraps and the last we saw of old Bill Turner, he was sinking to the crushing black oblivion of " in retaliation. He later struck a deal with Davy Jones for one hundred years of service on the Flying Dutchman. Only then did they learn they also needed Bootstrap's blood to break the curse, and by throwing him overboard they had, in fact, doomed themselves to continued damnation. Over the next decade, the Pearl menaced the
as the pirates searched for the coins until all but one was found. As a boy, Will Turner Jr. brought the gold medallion with him on his journey to the Caribbean, although , the governor's daughter, came into possession of it and kept it hidden for eight years. The Pearl later attacked
and abducted Elizabeth, believing she was Bootstrap's child—their only remaining source of Turner blood when it was really Will.
The Pearl is eventually commandeered by Sparrow with a new crew. While most of Barbossa's pirates are battling the Royal Navy at the Dauntless the rest of the pirates were fighting Elizabeth, Will, and a cursed Jack Sparrow at Isla de Muerta. After Will puts his blood on the coin, making the crew mortal, Jack shoots Captain Barbossa with his pistol that had one bullet which he carried for ten years. After the battle the crew make off with the Pearl, leaving Jack behind. However, they later rescue him after he escapes execution in Port Royal.
The Black Pearl was pursued by
and the . Off of , a large hurricane battered the Pearl (though it survived) and the Dauntless, which sank, along with most of its crew. Norrington survived, and later resigned from the Navy. He is later seen as a pirate in .
The Black Pearl is still being captained by , although his crew is
they want to do more "pirating" and are upset about the hurricane.
sends Bootstrap Bill Turner to remind Jack that he owes his soul and the Black Pearl to Jones, and his time is now up. Jack is marked with the , which means that the
is now out to pull him and the ship into .
Jack has the ship sailed to the nearest land - , the
island. Jack and the surviving crew escape the cannibals with , and travel to 's shack for advice. When Jack sends Will over to the Flying Dutchman, the Pearl is briefly commandeered by Jones' crew. Jack makes a deal with Jones: 100 souls in three days. The crew (minus Will, who is a good-faith payment) travel to
to find 99 more souls.
Meanwhile, at the Dutchman Will is reunited with his father Bootstrap Bill Turner. Jack meets
at Tortuga, and travels to , the island where the Dead Man's Chest is buried. After Jack steals the Heart (which is stolen from him by Norrington) the Black Pearl is attacked by
and successfully fights it off twice but the ship still retains heavy damage and most of the crew dies in the second round. After figuring out that the Kraken is after Jack and not the Black Pearl, Elizabeth kisses Jack, and (while she's kissing him) chains him to the ship's mast and leaves him behind. He is swallowed whole by the kraken, and the ship is dragged down into
as the surviving crew watches. They go to Tia Dalma's shack again and she asks them if they're willing to go to Davy Jones' Locker to get their captain and ship back. To their response Will, Elizabeth, Gibbs, Marty, Cotton's parrot (who was speaking for him and his master), Pintel and Ragetti all agreed. Then Tia Dalma showed them their new captain, .
Will, Elizabeth, the surviving Pearl crew and the newly resurrected Barbossa vow to rescue Jack and his ship. After acquiring navigational charts that will lead them to World's End, the crew meets Jack in Davy Jones' Locker, along with the Pearl. Jack uses a clue from the map (Up is Down) to return the Pearl to the Living World. They flip the ship upside down in the water at sunset, and it shoots up into the Living World at sunrise. Returning to the Living World seems to repair the damage done to it by the Kraken as the ship seems undamaged in At World's End.
After the Pearl is resurrected, it is desired by many characters: Jack, Barbossa, as it was Pintel, who just wanted to throw his name into the hat (and implied a future mutiny at the end of the film); Feng,
Will, who desires to free his father from J and Beckett, who wants the only ship that can outrun the Dutchman. The Pearl sails to the fourth meeting of the Brethren Court, and becomes the flagship of the Pirate Armada, led by Pirate King
(although she is a woman) and , the real captain of the Black Pearl.
The Pearl and the Dutchman engage in a sea battle in a
during the battle between the pirates and Lord Cutler Beckett's armada. The two ships are evenly matched, and both are damaged by the other's cannons and later boarded. The ships' masts are entangled during the fight. As the ships circle closer to the bottom of the maelstrom, the Dutchman begins to be pulled down. Barbossa orders a chain shot to be fired at the entangled masts, and the Pearl breaks away while the Dutchman sinks. The Pearl comes out of the maelstrom, still afloat but severely damaged. As the Endeavour advances on the Pearl, it is obvious that the Pearl is no match for it. However, the Dutchman resurfaces with Will Turner in command. After the battle, the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman sail alongside each other towards the East India Company Fleet and destroy the Endeavor , killing Lord , and forcing the massive armada to flee, as they no longer have somebody to lead them.
Afterward, Jack loses his ship and crew yet again to Barbossa, with the exception of Gibbs who ends up staying behind in Tortuga. Yet the crew seems unsettled about leaving Jack behind.
At some point after departure from Tortuga, the Black Pearl was attacked by the , a ship captained by the infamous pirate . Using the powers of Triton's Sword (able to control any ship and its inner workings), Blackbeard brought the rigging of the Black Pearl to life, and used it against Barbossa and his crew. Barbossa's men were defeated, and the Black Pearl captured, shrunk and put in a bottle by Blackbeard. Barbossa was allegedly the only survivor as he was apparently hanging by one leg, being forced to cut it off in order to set himself free.
After Blackbeard's death, Jack regains the Pearl in a bottle, and Gibbs fills a large bag with the bottles of other fallen ships from Queen Anne's Revenge; as the film concludes, Jack states that he is aware of a way of getting the Pearl back to full size, but it will require "a crossbow, an hourglass, three goats, one of [them] must learn to play the trumpet, whilst the other one goes like this" ('This' refers to motions similar to Jack's usual stagger). Barbossa also claims the Queen Anne's Revenge and its crew after Blackbeard's death.
The ship will appear in the fifth installment and will be restored to her original size.[]
The Black Pearl is moderately armed and carries 32 twelve-pound : 18 on the
and 14 on the . Its full
contains 16
that weigh 192
(192 pounds (87 kg)). The Pearl has no
(cannons used while being chased or chasing, as a regular broadside volley cannot be used in this situation) in her
or . This is very unusual for a pirate ship, and gives her a grave tactical disadvantage during a chase—the Pearl cannot shoot a ship it is chasing or reply to any fire from a pursuer. Her high speed only partially negates this handicap. In Dead Man's Chest another advantage the Black Pearl has over her enemies is her ability to hide in the sea at night, since if all the ship's lamps are blown out the ship is no longer visible thanks to her black hull and sails. This is also seen in Curse of the Black Pearl where she is able to sneak unhindered into Port Royal under the cover of darkness.
In the first movie, the Black Pearl was a steel barge with wooden structures built on top to resemble a real ship. In addition, a
set was used to achieve better control over fog machines. For the second and third movies, a floating sailing ship was actually built in the
on the hull of ship
to serve as the set, though it is not an authentic tall ship. Another version, mounted on a , was built for filming the Maelstrom battle. In 2010, the Sunset, which played the Black Pearl in most of the films, was reconstructed to portray the
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