Recently I was thinking about how in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie The Black Pearl was claimed to be the fastest ship ever and the HMS Intercepter was the fastest ship in the royal navy, and in one scene The Black Pearl is easily catching up to the Interceptor. I understand that these are fictional vessels, but I still didn’t understand how one could be considerably faster than the other, when I can’t really tell the difference between the two designs(to the untrained eye, you wouldn’t be able to tell which one is faster by looking at it.) How is one ship so much faster than another ship that appears to be designed very similarly?
(Edit: thanks, i have a bit better understanding of what can cause this, thank you to everyone who has commented, although feel free to elaborate or provide additional explanations if you wish!)
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Since you already got explanations for non-fictional ships, I’ll explain why the Black Pearl was faster. It was formerly the Wicked Wench, with Jack as captain working under the East India Trading Company. But it was set on fire and sunk by Cutler Beckett after Jack refused to deliver a “cargo” of slaves. Jack then made a deal with Davy Jones to have the Wench raised from the depths. And so it was, with a permanently charred hull, and became the Black Pearl. It was a deal with the devil, so-to-speak, and the ship itself has supernatural properties, making it faster than other ships.
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