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Edward England's flag, described by the East India Company as "flying a black flag with a skull and crossed bones at the main". Edward England (c. 1685 –1721) [1] [2] was an Irish pirate. The ships he sailed on included the Pearl (which he renamed The Royal James) and later the Fancy, for which England exchanged the Pearl in 1720.
Painting showing a French First Republic privateer flying a black Jolly Roger, signed and dated “Nicolas Cammillieri pinxit 1811”, with the inscription: “On the 14 Germinal year 7 of the French Republic (3 April 1796), in the Bay of Colonia on the coast of Spain, 4-hour long fight of the privateer Mouche, armed with an 8-pounder swivel gun, under Captain Jean Adrian, against a 16-nine ...
The Jolly Roger could also be flown on the day a submarine returned to the UK from a successful overseas deployment. [7] Although some sources claim that all British submarines used the flag, [8] the practice was not taken up by those submarine commanders who saw it as boastful and potentially inaccurate, as sinkings could not always be ...
The Jolly Roger is the name given to any of various flags flown to identify a ship's crew as pirates. Since the decline of piracy, various military units have used the Jolly Roger, usually in skull-and-crossbones design, as a unit identification insignia or a victory flag to ascribe to themselves the proverbial ferocity and toughness of pirates.
Cooke's flag was red-and-yellow striped and featured a hand holding a sword. John Cook: d. 1683 1680s England English buccaneer who led an expedition against the Spanish in the early 1680s. [citation needed] John Cornelius: 1687–? Ireland Irish pirate supposedly active in the Red Sea and off the west coast of Africa.
Emanuel Wynn's flag. Most historians agree that Cranby's journal is the first witness account of a black Jolly Roger used aboard ship, [3] which Cranby described as "a sable ensign with cross bones, a death's head, and an hour glass" (the quotation is from Earle, Pirate Wars, p. 154) or "A Sable Flag with a White Death's Head and Crossed Bones in the Fly."
Edward Low (also spelled Lowe or Loe; c. 1690–1724) was a pirate of English origin during the latter days of the Golden Age of Piracy, in the early 18th century.Low was born into poverty in Westminster, London, and was a thief from an early age.
A later 19th-century illustration of a captive Portuguese sailor forced to run through "the sweats" by Spriggs and his crew Flag of Francis Spriggs, Charles Harris, Edward Low and others. After leaving Low, Spriggs and the crew began flying a black flag similar to Captain Low's and set sail for the West Indies .