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
 * Baelfire/Neal Cassidy †
 * Belle French
 * Cora †
 * David Nolan
 * Emma Swan
 * Felix †
 * Hans
 * Henry Mills
 * Kristoff


 * Leroy
 * Lost Boys
 * Mary Margaret Blanchard
 * Milah †
 * Peter Pan †
 * Poseidon
 * Regina Mills
 * Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold
 * 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" and "Broken Heart".
 * The ship is named for the infamous pirate flag.
 * 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.
 * In "The Cricket Game", there are two swans gathered by the ship at the docks; a reference to Emma Swan.
 * The Jolly Roger is made from enchanted wood, and is the fastest vessel in all the realms.
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Production Notes

 * 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 ''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 the world.
 * The ship 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, where production for Once Upon a Time is based. 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.
 * The cabin that Belle searches in "The Outsider, which is also where Hook and Emma share a drink in "The Heart of the Truest Believer", was redressed and reused for the cabin where young Killian and Liam are sleeping in "Swan Song".
 * 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 on another ship in a green screen room based in Steveston Village. For the green-screen scenes, the crew rebuilt the deck of the Jolly Roger on huge airbags, which gives it the motion of being at sea.
 * For the scene where Hook sails off after stealing the magic bean, a boat towed the floating pirate ship set with Colin O'Donoghue at helm.
 * The set used to film the Jolly Roger's deck, was redressed and reused for Gerda's ship in "A Tale of Two Sisters".
 * 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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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".

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.