Jolly Roger (Ship)

"My ship? She's a marvel. Made from enchanted wood. We weathered many a storm together, seeing many strange, glittering shores."

- Captain Hook

The Jolly Roger, formerly known as the Jewel of the Realm, is a vehicle featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the fourth episode of the second season. The Jolly Roger is portrayed by the Lady Washington.

The Jolly Roger is based on the ship of the same name from the Peter Pan story, and on Queen Anne's Revenge from popular culture.

Visitors

 * Anna
 * Ariel
 * Belle French
 * Captain Nemo
 * Cora †
 * Dr. Jekyll †
 * Emma Swan
 * Felix †


 * Hans
 * Henry Mills
 * Kristoff
 * Leroy
 * Lost Boys
 * Peter Pan †
 * Poseidon
 * Prince Charming/David Nolan


 * Regina Mills
 * Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold
 * Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard
 * Tinker Bell
 * Ursula
 * Wendy Darling

Trivia
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On-screen Notes

 * The Jolly Roger is featured in the title card for "The Crocodile", "Good Form", "Broken Heart" and "The Brothers Jones".
 * The ship is named for the infamous pirate flag.
 * The Jolly Roger is made from enchanted wood, and is the fastest vessel in all the realms.


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Production Notes

 * For the episode "Siege Perilous", the scenes between Emma and Hook was supposed to happen on the deck of the Jolly Roger. However, for budget reasons, the scenes were moved to the inside of the ship.


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Disney

 * The candle in a bottle and the table cloth on Emma and Hook's lunch table, are similar to the ones seen in the famous spaghetti scene from Lady and the Tramp.
 * While Belle is staying aboard the Jolly Roger, the captain's quarters are full of decorations added by her. One of them is a candle in a bottle that is almost identical to the one conjured by Emma.

Popular Culture

 * When Killian Jones is rallying his crew to take over the ship and become pirates, he renames the ship Jolly Roger and says, "We'll sail under the crimson flag and give our enemies no quarter." During the Golden Age of Piracy, fighting under Jolly Roger, a black flag, meant that mercy would be given to all as long as they cooperated. Hoisting a red flag, on the other hand, signaled that "no quarter" would be given to any aboard if the ship's crew did not surrender without a fight; in other words, everyone aboard would be killed.


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Props Notes

 * The box that Belle opens in Hook's ship contains gold coins and a bell. This is a direct reference to Belle and Mr. Gold.
 * There is a stained-glass painting of a ship on the window in the Darling family's nursery room.
 * There are mermaid wall carvings in the captain's quarters.
 * The Jolly Roger in a bottle prop was a real replica of Hook's ship.
 * The inscription on Hook's safe says "Liverpool".

Set Dressing

 * In "The Cricket Game", there are two swans gathered by the ship at the docks; a reference to Emma Swan.
 * In the captain's quarters, there is an urn bearing an almost identical resemblance to the one Elsa comes out of in "There's No Place Like Home"; the only difference being the lid.
 * Both of the urns have been used as props in previous episodes. They can be seen among Regina's wedding gifts in the Evil Queen's Palace in "We Are Both", and a recolored version of both props are used to decorate Cora's heart vault in her home in "The Doctor". They also appear in Alphonse's Mansion in "In the Name of the Brother".
 * Among Emma's hand-painted pictures in her room at the Storybrooke Sanitarium during the Black Fairy's curse is a landscape painting featuring two ships, a reference to her husband's pirate ship.
 * In addition, three framed ship pictures are hanging on the walls in Henry's apartment.


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Filming Locations

 * A real ship was used to shoot the episodes "The Crocodile", "Queen of Hearts" and "The Cricket Game", because the production crew did not have time to build a ship set. The ship used to portray the Jolly Roger is the Lady Washington, who was also used to portray the HMS Interceptor in the 2003 swashbuckler film ''Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
 * In the film, a pirate captain steals the HMS Interceptor from the royal navy, just like the Jolly Roger was. The HMS Interceptor is known as the fastest ship in the Caribbean just like the Jolly Roger is the fastest vessel in all the realms.
 * The Lady Washington has also starred in many other films and TV shows, including the 1994 science fiction film Star Trek Generations.
 * The Lady Washington was unavailable for the rest of Season Two, because it had to go to "some tall ship's event", so the crew built a pirate ship set on a floating barge in Steveston Village, the Canadian town which doubles as the town of Storybrooke on Once Upon a Time. For these episodes, the scenes with the Jolly Roger were filmed at the Britannia Heritage Shipyard Park in Steveston Village. This truncated version of the Lady Washington was pulled by a tug boat, and never ventured further than the channel opposite the dock with rescue crew on standby. One side of the ship was painted to resemble the Lady Washington.
 * For the scene in "And Straight On 'Til Morning" where Hook sails off after stealing the magic bean, a boat towed the floating pirate ship set with Colin O'Donoghue at helm.
 * The Lady Washington returned to portray the Jolly Roger in Season Six and the Season Seven episode "A Pirate's Life".
 * Some scenes are filmed indoors on a pirate ship set in a green screen room at The Bridge Studios in Burnaby, where Once Upon a Time films.
 * Some of the scenes in "And Straight On 'Til Morning" on the Jolly Roger were shot on a pirate ship set afloat in the water, while others were filmed in a studio. For the studio scenes, the crew rebuilt the deck of the Jolly Roger on huge airbags, which gives it the motion of being at sea.
 * The Jolly Roger sets have been redressed and reused for other ships on the show:
 * The ship cabin, seen in "The Cricket Game", "The Outsider", "And Straight On 'Til Morning" and "The Heart of the Truest Believer", doubles as the cabin where young Killian and Liam are sleeping in "Swan Song".
 * The set used to film the Jolly Roger's deck, doubles as Gerda's ship for "A Tale of Two Sisters".
 * The Jolly Roger's deck and captain's quarters, double as Captain Silver's ship in "The Brothers Jones".

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.