Are There Any Pirate Flags Left?

Wading knee-deep into the details of why pirate flags probably didn't look *exactly* how we picture them today.

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Partly based on "Under the Black Flag" by David Cordingly

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[演歌舞伎]

you're telling me, some people have *pirated* pirate flags??

[bakersbread]

as a genuine pirate i can tell you that the official pirate flag is a white µ on a light green background

[Dave_Sisson]

It would have been nice if you had mentioned the Royal Navy tradition where a submarine returning to port after a victory always flies a Jolly Roger made on board. They did this from the First World War right through to the Falklands War.

[mangelo]

The skull on the left side of the flag at 2:30 reminds me of Sam O’Nellas illustrations.

[HIHaiki]

My country's flag is actually technically a pirate flag! Just search history of Bahrain, they used to be pirates (technically) and colonised the country late 1700s .

[ОлегКозлов-ют]

WAIT THERE WAS NO ENDSCREEN

HOW DO I KNOW WHEN IT ENDS?! OH GOD

[docholliday]

Next you are gonna tell us that the pirates vocabulary didn't consist internationally only of "yohoho", "yarr" and "scurvy dog". Shiver me timbers.

[erilassila]

There's actually one real pirate flag, in the maritime museum of Åland.

[videotaper]

I never thought to make a flag when I was pirating VHS tapes... ^_-

[BuildBuy]

It's like all pirate history preserved didn't talk about the massive number of pirates that DIDN'T announce to everyone around them that they are pirates and instead posed as normal trader ships.

[lukassnakeman]

hard to believe no one ever kept one as a trophy of victory. given how much countries put into eradicating pirates and piracy you'd think some captain or commander or admiral would have wanted to keep it and hang it up in their sitting room as a conversation piece "that's the flag of captain black pants" and then you'd think that their descendents would treasure something like that and preserve it. some monument to their ancestors achievement

[aitorwesterlundangue]

There actually exists a real Jolly Rogers in the maritime museum of Aland in Finland

[CSGhostAnimation]

I think that this subject would be impossible to do online research on, and would require you to go to museums and shit like that.

[bumblewyn]

You really predicted the CGP Grey pirate theme of 2020 haha

[larrisAWSOME]

Odd and niche knowledge channels are my addiction, good stuff my man.

[jwhite]

Are pirate flags pirated from wikipedia double-pirated, or are they free free flags?

[bland]

Imagine if a pirate got so fearsome that other pirates started using their flag just so that The ship would think oh crap I'm being invaded by that guy when in reality who knows who it is.

[lukeevans]

The Submarine branch of the British Royal Navy still flies the Jolly Roger upon returning from missions at sea

[AncientAccounts]

well does the pirate bay and its cassette skull and crossbones count?

[carlosalbertofernandezvele]

Of course there are historical pirate flags remaining today. Pirates on a budget used a sky-blue background displaying a silver white star in the middle. Pirates with plenty of booty had a blue background with a white saltire which on itself has a white and red crosses overlaping. A "Union Jack" is what most flag expert call it