Pirate Ship HMS BountyAccording to various web sources, a ship used in the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean was stolen when it made a visit to Greenock, Scotland. I have searched around and the most credible seeming news article, listed on news.scotsman.com, leaves much information to be desired. This incident apparently occured September 14, 2009 and they are looking for two teenagers who were seen near it prior to the theft. Other sources I have found seem to be re-prints of this article with no major newspapers having stories about it. Additionally, no information is available as to whether it was ever recovered.

So here is the question – in this day and age, how do you steal a large sailing ship without anybody noticing? This seems to be an elaborate publicity hoax or maybe the cursed pirates have returned to get the Black Pearl back! Heh.

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