Ian Moore – The pirate rig

We were literally Pirates. I mean back in the early 1900s, an Admiral once said that submarine warfare was ‘damned un-English’ and that any Submariner who was actually caught by the enemy, deserves to be ‘damn well hung.’

As Pirates, and that’s where the ‘Pirate Rig’ come in.

That’s where the Pirate flags for submarines comes in, and the Jolly Rogers that we used to fly at the end of our War Patrols and this sort of business.

It dates back to this Admiral remarking that we should have been hung as Pirates back in the early 1900s (laughs).