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Taylor's Jolly Roger pirate flag, described as “Fought under the black flagg at ye main topmast head. with deaths head in it” [3]. Taylor began his piratical career in 1718 as a crewman aboard the trading sloop Buck when Howell Davis staged a mutiny, took over the ship, and convinced the crew to take up piracy. [4]
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 ...
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 ...
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."
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.
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 ...
Worley's flag design, a variant of the "Jolly Roger" Worley's alternate flag design, a death skeleton on a black banner Richard Worley (died 1718/19) was a pirate who was active in the Caribbean Sea and the East Coast of the American Colonies during the early 18th century.
Jolly Roger (frog), a minor character in the Banjo-Kazooie video game series; Jolly Roger (Pirates of the Caribbean), a primary villain of the Disney MMO Pirates of the Caribbean Online; Jolly Roger, secondary character in the animated cartoon television series I Am Weasel; Jolly Roger, a character in Grant Morrison's comic book series The ...