So not only was rum a pirates’ best friend, but it was a great opportunity for the British to disassociate themselves financially from the heated rivals that were the Spanish and French at that time. What I came to find out is that there are cocktails prepared with Disaronno like the “Disaronno punch” among other cocktails with the same drink. Captured merchant captain William Snelgrave tells of a fire that started while he was aboard Howell Davis' ship the Saint James. they all in confusion said, 'We know not what to do in the matter:' Upon that I told them, 'If the sober People were allowed to go away with the Boats, no one would endeavour to save the Ship; and we that were left should be lost. He explained, " There is, says he, Sugar in the Offing, bring it in, that we may have no more Mumbling" 4 .

By testing your hangover with the most cunning and humorous pirates in verbal duels that will take place in the lively Drunken Monkey tavern, located on a lost island in the heart of the Caribbean. Naval sailor Samuel Atkins noted in his journal that in April of 1681 a well equipped Dutch man of war which was "cast away upon Minorca, (comeing from Alicant,) which they tooke for Barcelona, being all drunck, as a few of the men that were saved, confess.Hamilton had some aspects of this story incorrect (a problem with many of his secondhand stories); that ship was the Scottish vessel Neptune, which was actually taken by the Madagascar-based pirates in late 1707. Johnson has this wrong; the trial accounts of the survivors count seven men who survived this wreck.

Fasten your glass eye, perch your talking parrot on your shoulder, and get ready to embark on the most hilarious pirate battle ever seen in the caribbean sea using funny insults!The quote from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island: “ Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of rum …” and Johnny Depp’s inebriated character, Captain Jack Sparrow, seem to sum up the quick answer to the question: why were pirates always drunk? When pirates Olivier Levasseur, Howell Davis and Thomas Cocklyn got together on Davis' ship to discuss plans and drink, "they had like to have fallen together by the Ears [come to blows], the strong Liquor stirring up a Spirit of Discord among them, and they quarell’d" 13. This caused the previously deposed commodore, Bartholomew Sharp, to resume command and he decided to retreat. When asked why he did this, Teach simply damned them for asking and said "if he did not now and then kill one of them, they would forget who he was. Drink also made men careless, putting pirates in a position where they might reveal themselves and risk being captured because of their mistake.