Black Jake is the Captain and owner of the schooner Viper in the book Peter Duck. He is “a dark man, with black hair (and black ringlets) and big gold ear-rings that showed below his hair.” The porter says that Black Jake has “the scum of the place … in that hooker …” Black Jake accosts the Swallows, and is upset when Polly says “Pieces of eight”. Later the harbourmaster says “He’s in with every bad lot in the place” (PD1,2). Black Jake has a crew of four; excluding Red-haired Bill, who describes them in (PD13):