ABC Sports 3x5 Jolly Roger pirate flag features a classic eyepatched skull and crossbones design, on a plain black background, and is manufactured to strict quality control standards by utilising a fully-proven imprint service combined with the best quality fabrics available to ensure that our Jolly Roger pirate flags are of premium quality in their range.
The Jolly Roger pirate flag is 900mm x 1500mm wide, 3 foot x 5 foot in the old imperial measurement, has reinforced white hanging spline with dual brass grommets for attaching to a flag pole, hanging on a games room wall, or other structure.
The 3x5 Jolly Roger pirate flag features triple stitched edging and is made from a durable lightweight polyester material making it perfect for either indoor games room wall display or outdoor use, while the lightweight super-stitched polyester material used to make the Jolly Roger pirate flag allows the flag to sway, wave, flap and flutter in even the slightest of breeze.
About the Jolly Roger flag - Skull and Crossbones flag.
The Jolly Roger is any of various flags flown to identify a ship's crew as pirates. The flag most usually identified as the Jolly Roger today is the skull and crossbones, a flag consisting of a human skull above two long bones set in an x-mark arrangement on a black field. This design was used by several pirates, including Captains Edward England and John Taylor.
Some Jolly Roger flags also include an hourglass, another common symbol representing death in 17th and 18th century Europe. Despite its prominence in popular culture, plain black flags were often employed by most pirates in the 17th and 18th century.
Historically, the Jolly Roger, or pirate flag was flown to frighten pirates' victims into surrendering without a fight, since it conveyed the message that the attackers were outlaws who would not consider themselves bound by the usual rules of engagement—and might, therefore, slaughter those they defeated (since captured pirates were usually hanged, they did not have much to gain by asking quarter if defeated). The same message was sometimes conveyed by a plain red flag.
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, these groups included - on the tail of B-24 heavy bombers of the 90th Bombardment Group of the Fifth Air Force, on the tail of Grumman F-14 Tomcats of fighter squadron VF-84, Polish submarine ORP Sokó, British submarine HMS Utmost, HMS Proteus, HMS Conqueror, HMS Turbulent, HMS Triumph, and the Australian submarine HMAS Onslow flew the Jolly Roger in 1980, following her successful participation in the 'Kangaroo 3' war game as an opposing submarine.
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