Raised on the Isle of Sartosa in a well known pirate family, Bluebeard started his naval career as the First Mate aboard the Scaled Dog. After serving the Dog for years, a storm shipwrecked the boat just as he was being given the deeds to the ship after his fathers death. He then went on to become captain of the Sigmar before another storm nearly drowned him and his crew. With the Sigmar a nearly sunk, he launched a raid on a merchant ship carrying salt to the mainland. After a brief but vicious battle he won and renamed her Salty Dog after the first ship he was meant to captain but never did.