The Black Pearl, formerly known as the Wicked Wench, was a legendary pirate ship which was captained by Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa during the Golden Age of Piracy. The ship was built as a merchant ship before the pirate captain Morgan captured the ship and made it his flagship; after Morgan's death in battle with the Spanish Navy, the ship's command fell to Jack Sparrow, who led the ship on adventures from West Africa to the Caribbean. Sparrow was captured and branded by the British East India Company after liberating a cargo of slaves, and, in 1716, Lord Cutler Beckett had the Wicked Wench torched; according to legend, Sparrow made a deal with Davy Jones to raise the Wicked Wench from the depths in exchange for 100 years of service aboard the Flying Dutchman; the charred ship was re-christened the Black Pearl. In 1718, Hector Barbossa led the ship's crew in a mutiny and captained the ship for ten years, terrorizing the Caribbean. According to pirate legend, Barbossa and his crew were cursed with immortality (turning into skeletons when exposed to moonlight) due to their theft of Hernan Cortes' hoard of Aztec coins from Isla de Muerta, which the crew of the Black Pearl used as their base. In 1728, Sparrow reclaimed the Black Pearl with the help of William Turner and Elizabeth Swann, killing Barbossa while his crew was captured by the Royal Marines at the Battle of Isla de Muerta. In 1729, Sparrow and the Pearl were said to have been dragged down to Davy Jones' Locker by the Kraken to fulfill Sparrow's debt to Davy Jones, but Sparrow and the Pearl escaped the Locker with the aid of a supposedly resurrected Barbossa and Turner and Swann. That same year, the Pearl was said to have defeated the Flying Dutchman at the Battle of Calypso' Maelstrom, as well as destroying the HMS Endeavour and killing Beckett. After the battle, Barbossa once again stole the ship from Sparrow, but, according to an egregious pirate myth, the resurrected Blackbeard and the Queen Anne's Revenge captured the Black Pearl and transformed it into a ship in a bottle. This same legend claimed that Barbossa used the Sword of Triton to return the Black Pearl to its original size. Sparrow resumed captaining the Black Pearl after Barbossa's death in 1751.