The Pirate's Realm

Emmanuel Wynne is often given credit for starting the Jolly Roger craze around 1700 with his skull and crossbones on a classic black background, accompanied by an hourglass image. The forerunner had been a white cross on a black flag. You are swimming upstream against popular culture and Hollywood swashbucklers to find the truth about the most well-known of pirate symbols. The principal fact is that this flag in all its variety was only flown for around 20 years during the height of the Golden Age of piracy, and even then, almost exclusively by pirates of British descent. For more information, visit our main Pirate Flags page.

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Black Bart 1	Black Bart 2	Blackbeard
Calico Jack	Christopher Condent	Christopher Moody
Edward England	Ed Low	Emanuel Wynne
Henry Every black	Henry Every red	Richard Worley
Thomas Tew	Walter Kennedy	Stede Bonnet

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