SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 7 of “Our Flag Means Death,” now streaming on Max. For the second season of “Our Flag Means Death,” Max’s comedy ...

The USS Carl M. Levin's battle flag. (U.S. Navy/Anastasiya Dudarky) While a kraken splintering a pirate ship into pieces might seem a mildly foreboding emblem for a new warship, Dudaryk explained ...

Pirate crews also often held the flags of several different nations so they could raise a particular flag to signal being “friendly” to a passing ship, only to raise their pirate flag once ...

Blackbeard even mentored Bonnet in a way, teaching him to be a more ferocious pirate, and he also even carried out the events seen in Our Flag Means Death’s series finale, marooning the crew on ...