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JOLLY ROGER
pirate ship model
This 10' (2.54 meter) long
Jolly Roger model was commissioned by a restaurant in Canada
in 2014. Our Jolly Roger pirate ship models are very
accurate and approved by a gentleman who was involved in
the making of the movie Hook (1991, directed by Steven
Spielberg).
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The term Jolly Roger goes back to at least Charles
Johnson's A General History of the Pyrates, published in
Britain nearly 300 years ago.
Johnson specifically cites two pirates as having named
their flag "Jolly Roger": Bartholomew Roberts in June,
1721 and Francis Spriggs in December 1723. While Spriggs
and Roberts used the same name for their flags, their
flag designs were quite different, suggesting that
already "Jolly Roger" was a generic term for black
pirate flags rather than a name for any single specific
design.
Richard Hawkins, who was captured by pirates in 1724,
reported that the pirates had a black flag bearing the
figure of a skeleton stabbing a heart with a spear,
which they named "Jolly Roger".
During the Elizabethan era Roger was a slang term for
beggars and vagrants who "pretended scholarship. "Sea
beggars had been a popular name for Dutch privateers
since the 16th century.
Another theory states that Jolly Roger is an English
corruption of Ali Raja, supposedly a 17th-century Tamil
pirate. Yet another theory is that it was taken from a
nickname for the devil, Old Roger. The jolly appellation
may be derived from the apparent grin of a skull.
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