I was doing some reading and found this little tidbit to be very interesting. Several big time pirates, like Blackbeard, had what they called a Pirate Code of Conduct. Mutiny and desertion usually resulted in death or exile. Well, the pirate song "15 Men On A Dead Man's Chest" is supposed to based off claims that Blackbeard exiled 15 members to an island that is part of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean called Dead Man's Chest after their mutiny. Based on Blackbeard's Pirate Code they would each be given a cutlass and a bottle of rum.
Here is a current picture of Dead Man's Chest Island. Courtesy of Wikipedia
Here is a photo of what a rum bottle they might have drank from could look like. Courtesy of Pinterest.
