The USS Carl M. Levin's battle flag. (U.S. Navy/Anastasiya Dudarky) While a kraken splintering a pirate ship into pieces might seem a mildly foreboding emblem for a new warship, Dudaryk explained ...

The visuals came later. Filming took place in Aberdeen on the Lady Washington, a replica of a ship used during the Revolutionary War, which was used in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the ...