Disarrono is a warm, relaxing drink with a beautifully intoxicating almond scent and a sweet vanilla flavor. The first occurred in 1704 aboard the Spy Galley where he explains, "I fell off the mainyard on the ship’s gunnel [top of the side of the ship] and overboard.

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. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. William Lord, the trumpeter aboard merchant captain Thomas Phillip's ship Hannibal got into an argument with one of the officers at the Royal African Company's factory at Cape Corso while they were drinking punch together.Sometimes, the regular, drunken condition of the pirates made them careless enough that the forced men or prisoners on the ship were able to capture the ship. Had it not been for the arrack and the sugar [they had left from their Christmas celebrations], most of them must have perished of hunger and thirst.

Well the reasons for this consistent state of semi-inebriation could be much more pragmatic than hedonistic; most journeys in the Golden Age of Pirates were very long, and as such the water supplies would go off.There, "wee had a princelike dinnar: and every health that wee dranke, every man broake the glasse he drank in; so that before night wee had destroyd a whole chest of pure Venice glasses" 18. 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.