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** Port Royal had been destroyed by the time the films are set in, and Tortuga looks nothing like it does in the film.
** The whole Maelstrom battle. Yeah. 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.
*** Given that the ''Flying Dutchman'' in the film is supernaturally invulnerable, not so much. The ''Pearl'' should still have been shredded like rice paper, admitted.
* ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'' had the USS ''Blueback'' play the ''Red October''. Notable as the ''Blueback'' is a diesel fast attack sub rather than a nuclear ballistic missile sub. But the ''Blueback'' was at least a modern design.
** Again, security concerns: the Navy would rather swallow ground glass than put a close-up shot of a nuclear submarine on-screen in 1990.
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* ''[[Battleship (film)|Battleship]]'' seems to think that it only takes a handful of men to prep and arm a decommissioned battleship in under an hour. It also thinks that a 50,000 ton warship can perform handbrake turns.
** Actually not so much. The USS John Paul Jones has a crew of about 280, and the Myoko has about 300. When the JPJ finally went down, we can assume that atleast half of the ships crew got off, and then there's the survivors from the Myoko. Knowing this, we can assume that the surviving crew we don't see numbered in the area of about 100 to 150, MAYBE 200. On top of this, the survivors were well aware of what would happen if they failed to knock out that communications array, so with that kind of pressure, getting a ship ready to sail can get done even faster. Remember, The USS Nevada managed to get under way DURING the attack on Pearl with most of her crew either fighting fires, or shooting at Japanese planes, leaving only a handful to get the engines going. One final point is that the retired Mighty Mo crew was assisting the JPJ/Myoko crew in getting the ship going.
*** However, the standard crew complement on an ''Iowa''-class BB is 1800 men -- and that's for one of the modern refitted ones, an unrefitted museum piece would still be using the original manning needs of about 3000. Even assuming a 100% survival rate for the crews of the destroyers, they didn't have enough men to staff so much as one duty section. In addition to the fact that a decommissioned museum piece would need over a month and depot-level overhaul facilities to have the slightest hope of moving anywhere without being towed.
** One area the film-makers did screw up in however, is the portrayal of John Paul Jones herself. She is the third ship in the Arliegh Burke Class of Destroyers, which means she is a Flight 1. Flight 1s have a helipad, but lack a hanger. The USS Sampson (which was destroyed) is a Flight 2A. These models HAVE a hanger. However, someone in the film studio seemed to think that all Burkes have hangers, which would be excusable if the ship and hull number was fictional, but the USS John Paul Jones is one of the better known of the Destroyer fleet, and there are hundreds of photos to reference from.
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