The pirates boarded and took control of the vessel, forcing Lieutenant Gillette and his men into the longboats, but the two were unable to steer the ship into open water by themselves.

The Dauntless remained anchored at the Port Royal harbor when not in use, and it was from here that Captain Jack Sparrow and his accomplice, Will Turner, attempted to commandeer it following the raid. The Dauntless though fast for a ship of her class, was passed over in favor of the smaller, lighter HMS Interceptor for immediate pursuit of the pirates. The attack concluded with he withdrawal of the pirates, with the governor's daughter in tow. The Dauntless apparently did not participate in the battle, since Commodore Norrington himself remained at Fort Charles during the siege.

However, after Norrinton was promoted as Commodore, the Black Pearl launched an attack on Port Royal to secure the last of 882 Aztec coins hoarded at Isla de Muerta. Captain Jack Sparrow himself pointed out that with a ship like the Dauntless, the much smaller HMS Interceptor seemed rather superfluous to be guarding. Even the cursed crew of the Black Pearl showed fear at the vessel's name, such was its reputation. Caught up in the investigation of the merchant vessel's wreckage, nobody aboard the Dauntless spotted the responsible party slip away through the fog, save the young Elizabeth.Д«ased out of Port Royal, the HMS Dauntless became known as the power in the Caribbean over the next eight years, presumably under the command of now-Captain Norrington, and was the scourge of many a pirate organization. Sailing through a ghostly fog, with her bow emerging from it with an eerie creaking and groaning, it was the Dauntless that happened upon the wreck of a merchant vessel destroyed by the Black Pearl, and its crew saved the only survivor a young Will Turner floating on debris from the ship, who accompanied those onboard to Port Royal. At this time, Norrington served on board as a lieutenant, with Joshamee Gibbs as one of the crew. Norrington ordered the crew to pursue their quarry regardless, but the hurricane proved too powerful to navigate and the Dauntless was destroyed.ДЄ first-rate ship of the line, the earliest known use of the Dauntless was that it carried Governor Weatherby Swann and his daughter, Elizabeth, from England to Port Royal, Jamaica eight years prior to James Norrington's promotion to the rank of commodore. While Norrington was pursuing Jack Sparrow and the Black Pearl, they came across a hurricane off Tripoli. The cursed pirates later staged a surprise attack on the Dauntless, in which Norrington's men defeated the pirates. After Elizabeth Swann was kidnapped by the cursed pirate crew of the Black Pearl, Jack Sparrow and Will Turner used the Dauntless in their plan to commandeer the Interceptor so they could sail it out to sea to save Elizabeth. From there, the Dauntless served as the power of those waters as the flagship of Norrington's men stationed at Port Royal. The Dauntless was used to carry Governor Weatherby Swann and his daughter Elizabeth from England to the Caribbean, though they came upon the wreckage of a merchant vessel en route and rescued the sole survivor. Paired with the HMS Interceptor, both ships became the scourge of piracy in the Caribbean for years to come. As one of the Empire's premiere warships and renowned pride of the Royal Navy, this ship was agile, fast, and carried 100 guns, making her a force to be reckoned with.

The HMS Dauntless was one of the strongest ships in the British Royal Navy serving under King George II, most notably under the command of Commodore James Norrington.

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