The Sea Bitch is a new longship built by Sigrin.
Appearance
Sea Bitch has a lean, black hull a hundred feet long, a single mast and fifty oars. The longship has a deck large enough to hold a hundred men and an iron ram shaped like an arrowhead.[1]
Recent Events
A Clash of Kings
Theon Greyjoy is given command of a newly-built longship at Lordsport after he returns to Pyke. He names it Sea Bitch after Esgred (actually his sister Asha) claims the longship is a sea bitch instead of a fair maiden.[1] Victarion Greyjoy loans his own steersman, Rymolf Stormdrunk, to his nephew,[1] and Aeron Greyjoy, another of Theon's uncles, blesses the new ship.[1]
Theon sails the Sea Bitch as the flagship of his force during his harrying of the Stony Shore.[2] Deviating from the plan of his father Balon, King of the Iron Islands, Theon grants six longships to Aeron Greyjoy to continue raiding the shore but keeps the Sea Bitch and Dagmer's Foamdrinker.[2]
While Dagmer threatens Torrhen's Square and distracts Ser Rodrik Cassel, Theon is able to capture capture Winterfell.[3] Crewmembers Stygg and Urzen are among those who abandon Theon before battle outside the gates of Winterfell and the sack of Winterfell by House Bolton.[4]
Known Crew
- Maron Botley[5] and presumably his three sons[2]
- Cadwyl[5]
- Gevin Harlaw[5]
- Rymolf Stormdrunk[1]
- Stygg[5]
- Urzen[5]
Quotes
The longship was so new that she still smelled of pitch and resin. His uncle Aeron would bless her on the morrow, but Theon had ridden over from Pyke to get a look at her before she was launched. She was not so large as Lord Balon's own Great Kraken or his uncle Victarion's Iron Victory, but she looked swift and sweet, even sitting in her wooden cradle on the strand; lean black hull a hundred feet long, a single tall mast, fifty long oars, deck enough for a hundred men ... and at the prow, the great iron ram in the shape of an arrowhead.[1]
—thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Theon: I would never mistreat such a fair maiden.
Asha: Fair maiden? She's a sea bitch, this one.
Theon: There, and now you've named her. Sea Bitch.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 24, Theon II.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 37, Theon III.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 46, Bran VI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 66, Theon VI.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 A Storm of Swords, Appendix.