In a lonely cove by the seashore, Mrs Ladd runs the Admiral Benblowers Inn, helped by her son Jim Ladd. Enter rough old buccaneer Billy Barnacle looking for a place to hide a treasure map. Enter pirates looking for him. Enter Long Johns Silver, and his talking parrot, looking for them. Enter Cyrene, a maiden jilted by a sailor, with a pathological hatred of sailing men. Enter Broadside Betty the most fearsome pirate known to man (or woman) and you have a recipe for mayhem and murder!