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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 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.
Fighter Squadron 61 (VF-61), the Jolly Rogers, was a fighter squadron of the United States Navy. Originally established as VF-17 on 1 January 1943, it was redesignated as VF-5B on 15 November 1946, and then later as VF-61 on 28 July 1948. It was disestablished on 15 April 1959. It was the first navy squadron to be designated VF-17. [1]
Jolly Roger, fictional ship of the pirate Captain Hook; Jolly Roger, formerly the name of Shanghai Sam's vessel in the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Mutiny on the Bunny", now called the Sad Sack; Jolly Roger, a Sunracer-class scoutship from the computer game Space Rogue; Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media. Jolly Roger Records, an American ...
Wynn's Jolly Roger Flag [ edit ] 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 ...
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 ...
[3] Napin and his 12-gun, 100-man sloop [2] were also behind a solo attack on a pink named Adventure in September, [3] and a ship's tender off of Trinidad in October. [ 1 ] Captain Vincent Pearse of HMS Phoenix sailed to Nassau in early 1718 to bring news of King George I 's general pardon for pirates for those who surrendered by September.
Pirate Master is an American reality television show created by Mark Burnett and broadcast on CBS. The show followed sixteen modern-day pirates on their quest for a gold treasure valued at US$1,000,000. The show was hosted by Cameron Daddo and was filmed around and on the Caribbean island nation of Dominica. Pirate Master premiered Thursday ...