The Pirate Flag

The flag is an adaptation of Pirate Edward England's Flag. I've added the crosses.

His story:
Edward England's career as a pirate began when the ship that he was on was taken over by a pirate Captain Christopher Winter while on a trip from Jamaica to Providence. The pirates that captured the ship liked him so much that he was given command of a sloop of his own soon after. Edward England became a scourge of the African waters after being driven from the Caribbean in 1718 by the British Navy.

In the East Indies, arriving enroute in Madagascar in the beginning of 1720, heading thence for the Malabar coast. Here they took several Indian vessels and a Dutch ship which they exchanged for one of their own. The next stop was Juanna where they ran across two English and an Ostend Indiaman. The captain of one of the English ships, the Cassandra, put up a fierce battle. So damaging the pirates Dutch ship, now called the Fancy, that the pirates kept the Cassandra and gave the Fancy, in its ill shape, to the English captain. The other English ship, the Greenwich, and the Ostender deserted the Cassandra and ran off. Edward England, having released the captain of the Cassandra, made several enemies among his crew and was marooned with three others on the small island of Mauritius, and sailed off under a Captain John Taylor. England and the men made a small boat of scrap wood and sailed it to Madagascar, St. Augustine Bay. Here England survived for a short while off the charity of others before finally dieing in late 1720 or early 1721.

As an aside one of the men marooned with England was described by Captain Johnson as "a man with a terrible pair of whiskers and a wooden leg, being stuck round with pistols," and is said to have been the model for Robert Louis Stevenson's character, Long John Silver. Like most pirates, England's end was neither in fame nor riches. England was said to have been one of the more humane of the pirate captains and only allowed the crew to torture victims when he could not persuade them otherwise.

As a good nature and unusual kindness, England didn't believe in torturing victims unless they couldn't otherwise be persuaded. This also led to his undoing. He was deposed for freeing a captured merchant captain, and died a beggar on Madagascar.