The iconic “Skull and Crossbones” of the Jolly Roger first took flight with VF-17, the Navy’s deadliest fighter squadron of World War II, in January 1943. Since then, this legendary insignia ...
When the Royal Navy launched its first submarine in 1901, the Sea Lord said submarines were ‘underhand, unfair, and damned un-English’ The sight of a Jolly Roger flag once struck fear into the ...
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 ...