Richard Worley Jolly Roger Pirate Flags Symbols Charm

Richard Worley was a pirate who operated in the Caribbean Sea and along the East Coast of the American colonies in the early 18th century. He is famous today not for his daring pirate escapades, but for the design of his Jolly Rodger flag, which everyone remembers. Worley and his crew celebrated their first taste of pirate success by writing their own pirate code (in which they claimed they would fight to the death if cornered by authorities) and by creating a new Jolly Rodger flag – a black flag that is today recognizable throughout the entire world. It had a now-legendary black backdrop, two crossed collar bones, and a white human skull in front of them.