Captain Pugwash Captain Pugwash Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate in a series of British children's comic strips and books created by John Ryan. The character's adventures were adapted into a TV series, using cardboard cut-outs filmed in live-action (the first series was performed and broadcast live), also called "Captain Pugwash", first shown on the BBC in 1957, a later colour series, first shown in 1974–75, and a traditional animation series, "The Adventures of Captain Pugwash", first aired in 1998. The eponymous hero – Captain Horatio Pugwash – sails the high seas in his ship called the "Black Pig", ably assisted by
Captain Ward and the Rainbow home, go home," says Captain Ward, "And tell your king from me, If he reigns king on all the land, Ward will reign king on sea!" </poem> Captain Ward and the Rainbow Captain Ward and the Rainbow, or Ward the Pirate, is Child ballad 287. It recounts a tale of the pirate Captain Ward, likely Jack Ward. The king sends a ship, the "Rainbow", after Captain Ward. In one variant, the ship carries 500 seamen, in another it carries 1,300. Ward defeats the "Rainbow" and sends taunts back to the king, "If he reign king of all the land, I