But death was super rare.” This one’s actually true. The Jolly Roger is the name given to a flag which identifies a pirate ship. It was typically a black flag that featured either a skull and ...

and one of two surviving 17th-century Jolly Roger flags (that familiar black flag featuring a skull and crossbones). At the center of the museum, travelers can climb aboard a replica pirate ship ...

and damned un-English’ The sight of a Jolly Roger flag once struck fear into the hearts of sailors at sea as it often meant a bloodthirsty band of pirates were about to launch a deadly attack ...

Arthur Wilson, specifically was vehemently against the use of submarines and made it clear that if hostile submarine crews were ever caught, they would be hanged liked pirates. Apparently Wilson's ...