Silent Hunter 3 All Ships
Lourdes Vandewerker
Silent MaryCareer informationCaptain(s)Armando Salazar[1][2]Notable crew membersCrew of the Silent Mary[1][2]Passengers
- Crew of the Queen Anne's Revenge (prisoners)[1][2]
- Henry Turner (prisoner)[3][1][2]
- El Matador Del Mar campaign[1][2]
- Attack in the Devil's Triangle[1][2]
- Destruction of Barbossa's fleet[1][2]
- Race to the Black rock island[3][2]
The Silent Mary was a galleon that served the fleet of the Spanish Royal Navy, famously under the command of Capitn Armando Salazar, during the Age of Piracy. With the two-headed imperial eagle and the coat of arms of monarchist Spain, the ship was a frightening floating castle and high-security naval prison that caused terror in every pirate. Although the Spanish ship sank, half-rotten and broken, the Silent Mary rose again, becoming a ghost ship that appeared to be more of a shipwreck than a functioning vessel.
A respected captain of the Spanish fleet, Salazar was the most ferocious and ruthless pirate hunter El Matador del Mar or The Butcher of the Sea, and like its sinister captain, the Silent Mary caused terror in every pirate as her cannons destroyed dozens of pirate ships in the Caribbean and the Seven Seas. During an encounter with the young pirate Jack the Sparrow aboard the Wicked Wench, Salazar was outwitted by Sparrow and the Silent Mary was sent into the Devil's Triangle, where the ship became cursed, half-rotten and broken up almost to resemble a large floating rib cage, transformed into a terrifying specter crewed by vengeful ghosts. From that moment on, Salazar's ship was imprisoned in the Triangle, doomed to sail the dark and misty waters, floating on the waves, surrounded only by mist and ghosts of seagulls, seeing no light and condemned to eternal darkness, with Capitn Salazar's deadly crew waiting for the day when Jack Sparrow would give the key to their freedom.
It is unknown when or where the Silent Mary was built. As was intended, the ship began its career as the pride of the Spanish Royal Navy. Carrying one hundred cannons,[citation needed] crewed by well-trained sailors loyal to Spain, and captained by a decorated officer Armando Salazar, her main mission being to search the seas for pirates to destroy. Like its sinister captain, who became the most ferocious and ruthless pirate hunter known as El Matador Del Mar or the Butcher of the Sea, the Silent Mary caused terror in every pirate as she became the most feared pirate-hunting ship in the Age of Piracy.[1][2]
On one occasion, the Silent Mary encountered a pirate fleet of ten ships. Even though the Spanish were outnumbered, the firepower of the Silent Mary and the skills of her crew were far superior to those of the pirate ships and their crews. In a fierce battle, Capitn Salazar's crew sank most of the fleet, with the Silent Mary evading any serious damage. Soon, almost all of the pirate ships were nothing but burning wrecks. A few survivors in the water who wanted mercy were mercilessly shot by the Spanish soldiers aboard the Mary by the orders of El Matador Del Mar himself. However, one pirate ship, the Wicked Wench, remained afloat, and Salazar ordered his men aboard the Silent Mary to follow him.[2]
With Salazar himself at the helm, the Silent Mary chased the Wicked Wench over the sea, until both ships approached the Devil's Triangle, a mysterious area surrounded by gigantic reefs and covered in eternal darkness. Just when the pirates were about to enter the giant cave in front of them, they made an insane maneuver, catching the reefs of the port side with ropes and instantly turning their ship to the left at the last moment. Since the Silent Mary was too close to the Wench, the Mary's crew did not have enough time to do the same.[2]
Narrowly avoiding a collision with the Wench, the Silent Mary continued sailing straight into the Triangle. Sailing fast through the unknown waters and surrounded with darkness, Salazar's crew could do nothing to slow down their ship and save it from the approaching disaster. The Silent Mary struck the reef mere moments after she entered the cave, turning the bow into splinters. The main mast broke close to deck level, falling off the starboard side and breaking part of the railing, but the shrouds kept it connected to the ship.[2]
The crash also resulted in several fires and explosions of gunpowder on the ship, causing panic among the sailors and soldiers onboard, and the Silent Mary was immediately engulfed in flames. The Spanish could not stop the fire from spreading, and the explosions quickly killed the entire crew, including the captain, whose body fell overboard. Soon, no one aboard the Silent Mary was alive, as the once magnificent ship was reduced to a burning wreck doomed to remain trapped on the rocks forever.[2]
However, fate had other plans for the Silent Mary and her crew. While the ship was still burning, the mysterious supernatural forces brought Salazar's crew back from the dead as ghosts dead set on revenge. They remained trapped in the Triangle for many years, while the Silent Mary slowly turned into a decaying and terrifying ghost ship that appeared to be more of a shipwreck than a functioning vessel.[1][2]
Many years after the incident, Salazar's crew noticed a Dutch barque entering the cave. The ship was flying the black pirate flag, and the undead Spanish sailors immediately attacked the vessel. The Spanish ghosts easily slaughtered the pirates and sunk their ship, leaving only the floating debris behind.[2]
However, a few minutes later another vessel, a British warship called the Monarch entered the Triangle. Though the British noticed the Spanish ship, at first they thought she wasn't a threat, because she was just a shipwreck. Surrounded by heavy fog, the Silent Mary slowly approached the British vessel, alarming the British commanding officer, Captain Toms, who ordered his men to open fire on the Silent Mary. Despite the heavy cannon fire from the Monarch, the Silent Mary was unstoppable, and her undead sailors used their ghostly powers to run across water and attack the British crew. Soon, the battle ended with the complete victory for the Spanish ghosts.[2]
Some time after the destruction of the Monarch, the crew of the Silent Mary was spending another day trapped in eternal darkness of the Triangle. As the ship sailed through the dark waters, the crew was scrubbing the decks that would never come clean, and mending sails that could never be mended. However, something unusual broke the monotony. The highest peak of one of the rocky formations around the Mary suddenly crumbled, allowing a single ray of sunlight to find its way through the dark clouds. The ship's wheel suddenly started turning on its own, shocking the crew. Lieutenant Lesaro asked Salazar what was happening, as the captain realized that Jack Sparrow had betrayed his compass, which was retaliating by freeing the ghostly Spanish ship and its crew from the Triangle's hold.[2]
As the reefs around the ship slowly sank beneath the waves, the Mary's tattered sails were filled with wind, and the ship sailed for the open sea. The crew basked in the clean sky for the first time in decades, as their prison finally completely collapsed around them. The Silent Mary was once again free to roam the seas. As the crew cheered, Salazar declared it was time for them to hunt a pirate.[2] A moment later he spotted a ship on the horizon - a ship flying the Jolly Roger, and the Silent Mary immediately gave chase.[6]
Salazar mercilessly continued with his original mission, leading his ship and crew against all the pirates in the Caribbean. One of the first victims of Salazar's wrath was the Red Dragon, a ship belonging to the pirate fleet of Captain Hector Barbossa. Using his supernatural powers, Salazar bent the ship's bow backwards, opening its broken ribs like the jaws of some giant sea beast, steering the ship straight into the pirate vessel which was broken in half by the ghost ship's hull. Like he did with Henry Turner, Salazar left one pirate alive to spread the tale of his return.[2]
Over the next few days the Silent Mary destroyed more pirate ships, allowing the dead to take command of the sea. Three more ships from Barbossa's fleet suffered the same fate as the Red Dragon - the Jaunty Lark, the Golden Pheasant, and the Rising Phoenix.[7] The Silent Mary did not limit its attacks to pirate vessels. As it sailed through the waters around the island of Saint Martin the Mary destroyed several British ships. The reports of an unknown enemy eventually reached Lieutenant John Scarfield, the commanding officer of the British forces on Saint Martin.[8] At the same time the pirate survivors of the Silent Mary's attacks informed their colleagues about Salazar's campaign, who in turn told Barbossa about the destruction of his fleet.[2]
After sinking some ships, the Mary was met by the Queen Anne's Revenge, captained by Hector Barbossa. Just as Salazar steered the Mary to destroy the Revenge Barbossa loudly yelled from the Revenge's forecastle, proclaiming that he knew about Salazar's search for Jack Sparrow. Salazar immediatelly stopped his attack, leaving half of the Mary bent in the air, with cannons from the lower decks hanging from the ropes. Salazar and his crew boarded the Revenge, where the undead Spaniards killed a few pirates until Barbossa and the ghostly pirate hunter made a deal - the pirate captain would lead the Spaniards to Jack Sparrow and in exchange they would spare his life and the lives of his crew.[2]
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