How Did You End Up at Pirates?

On one page, I came across a very sort of ordinary looking piece of red flannel. It doesn't look like anything very exciting until you read the caption. And it's such a specific piece of information. So I immediately started digging and discovered that somebody called admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane was on anti-piracy duties at this time in 1845. At some point, Anne met him and asked if he would contribute presumably a piece of fabric to her book. And he gave her this piece of pirate flag. A red pirate flag is pretty horrifying because it means no court to given, no mercy shown. If you are on board any kind of vessel and see,. they were very fast