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The Jolly Roger raised in an illustration for Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance "Paul Jones the Pirate", a British caricature of the late 18th century, is an early example of the Jolly Roger's skull-and-crossbones being transferred to a character's hat, in order to identify him as a pirate (typically a tricorne, or as in this ...
The Flying Gang was an 18th-century group of pirates who established themselves in Nassau, New Providence in the Bahamas after the destruction of Port Royal in Jamaica. [2] The gang consisted of the most notorious and cunning pirates of the time, and they terrorized and pillaged the Caribbean until the Royal Navy and infighting brought them to ...
Use of the Jolly Roger by submarines; Jolly Rogers, a nickname for United States Navy Fighter Squadrons, including: VF-17 Jolly Rogers; VF-61; VF-84; VFA-103; USS Jolly Roger (SP-1031), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from December 1917 or early 1918 to November 1918
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A 1936 Pac-Kups Jolly Roger Pirate card featuring an artist's impression of Edward Low Low has featured on stamps and commemorative currency around the Caribbean. A postage stamp featuring Low was commissioned by the Cayman Islands in 1975, [ 31 ] and in 1994 the government of Antigua and Barbuda featured Low and his brigantine Rebecca on a ...
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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.