Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26443838-20151216014048/@comment-1916997-20151217132441

The doormouse wrote: To draw it back on subject - I thought Long John was never a Captain?

He was ship's cook, which is just about the only job a man with a peg leg could do on-board - he could hardly scale the rigging. I can't ever recall him rising to the rank of Captain ... Wikipedia has his occupation listed as "Cook and Pirate Captain", so I'm pretty sure he was a captain. I think the cook was just a cover.