and hang all crews." In response, Lieutenant Commander (later Admiral Sir) Max Horton first flew the Jolly Roger on return to port after sinking the German cruiser SMS Hela and the destroyer SMS S116 in 1914 while in command of the E-class submarine HMS E9. treat all submarines as pirates in wartime. Members of the crew of HMS Utmost with their "Jolly Roger" success flag, photographed alongside the submarine depot ship HMS Forth in Holy Loch, on their return from a year's service in the Mediterranean on 6 February 1942Īdmiral Sir Arthur Wilson VC, the Controller of the Royal Navy, summed up the opinion of the many in the Admiralty at the time when in 1901 he said submarines were "underhand, unfair, and damned un-English. 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.
The Jolly Roger is the name given to any of various flags flown to identify a ship's crew as pirates.
Main articles: Jolly Roger and Use of the Jolly Roger by submarines
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