** Jack Sparrow's sinking ship at the start of the first film is impossible. Later on, hilariously, the Royal Navy officer says that the ''Dauntless'' "cannot be crewed by two men." Neither can the ''Interceptor'', in reality.
** The whole Maelstrom battle. Also, a first-rate ship of the line like the ''Endeavour'' could eat a pair of heavy frigates like the ''Black Pearl'' and ''Flying Dutchman'' for breakfast.
** No lower-deck gun (or even a maindeck carronade) could possibly achieve the angle of elevation shown by the ''Black Pearl'' attacking Port Royal (or for that matter, any of the ships in the whirlpool battle). If you want to fire that high, you're looking at small pintle mount weapons like swivel guns, or dedicated mortars (which tended to be either little 1-3 pounder boat mortar jobbies or fitted to specially built/modified bomb ketches). Anything else would rip a hole in the deck it's mounted on with the recoil (and bomb ketches had to sit the mortar on a hold full of coiled rope to compensate).
*** Actually, it could...if the ship lay way out to sea and double-charged its guns to compensate, not sitting right in the harbor like the ''Black Pearl''. 
*** What's worse is the sequence of the ''Black Pearl'' bombarding Port Royal shows her standing in to the harbour under damn near full sail[[hottip:*:well, she had her royals and studdingsails in reserve, but that looked to be about it]], and judging by how she was heeling, running within a couple of points of the true wind. So that means not only is she having to fire any maindeck guns through her own rigging to reach the fort, she's sailing headlong into a lee shore with, as had been earlier established, no gently shelving beach to safely run aground on. This is known as a Bad Thing, but [[SarcasmMode luckily the ''Black Pearl'' is capable of stopping on a dime without changing her rig, dropping anchor or even entering something's wind shadow]] although this could be due to the magical curse on her crew and captain.
** The Flying Dutchman's triple-guns cannot be reloaded, as cannon are muzzle-loading. Unless Davy Jones has invented breech-loading cannons. Which presents the additional problem of how the cascabel screw threads don't seize using 17th-century ironwork. Unless the guns are magical. Which presents the additional problem of why Davy Jones bothers to crew his gundecks.

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* From ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Along with many films featuring WoodenShipsAndIronMen, RealLife fully rigged sailing ships couldn't be turned simply by spinning the wheel like it's a Formula 1 car. There is a whole array of multi-man, complex procedures for doing so.
** Jack Sparrow's sinking ship at the start of the first film is impossible. Later on, hilariously, the Royal Navy officer says that the ''Dauntless'' "cannot be crewed by two men." Neither can the ''Interceptor'', in reality.
** The whole Maelstrom battle. Also, a first-rate ship of the line like the ''Endeavour'' could eat a pair of heavy frigates like the ''Black Pearl'' and ''Flying Dutchman'' for breakfast.
** No lower-deck gun (or even a maindeck carronade) could possibly achieve the angle of elevation shown by the ''Black Pearl'' attacking Port Royal (or for that matter, any of the ships in the whirlpool battle). If you want to fire that high, you're looking at small pintle mount weapons like swivel guns, or dedicated mortars (which tended to be either little 1-3 pounder boat mortar jobbies or fitted to specially built/modified bomb ketches). Anything else would rip a hole in the deck it's mounted on with the recoil (and bomb ketches had to sit the mortar on a hold full of coiled rope to compensate).
*** Actually, it could...if the ship lay way out to sea and double-charged its guns to compensate, not sitting right in the harbor like the ''Black Pearl''. 
*** What's worse is the sequence of the ''Black Pearl'' bombarding Port Royal shows her standing in to the harbour under damn near full sail[[hottip:*:well, she had her royals and studdingsails in reserve, but that looked to be about it]], and judging by how she was heeling, running within a couple of points of the true wind. So that means not only is she having to fire any maindeck guns through her own rigging to reach the fort, she's sailing headlong into a lee shore with, as had been earlier established, no gently shelving beach to safely run aground on. This is known as a Bad Thing, but [[SarcasmMode luckily the ''Black Pearl'' is capable of stopping on a dime without changing her rig, dropping anchor or even entering something's wind shadow]] although this could be due to the magical curse on her crew and captain.
** The Flying Dutchman's triple-guns cannot be reloaded, as cannon are muzzle-loading. Unless Davy Jones has invented breech-loading cannons. Which presents the additional problem of how the cascabel screw threads don't seize using 17th-century ironwork. Unless the guns are magical. Which presents the additional problem of why Davy Jones bothers to crew his gundecks.

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