"Don't Give Up the Ship" with Lines & Stripes

I forgot about this perfect ship motto when I posted the Ipernity plea a few weeks back- I suppose it might have worked better than the "magic spoon" one. : )
Oh, well. Now I get to use it for...LINES/STRIPES, the current theme of Vintage Photos Theme Park.
This is a photo (glass plate negative) chock full of lines, but it does include a few stripes as well. (On the flags.)
The dealer I bought this from told me it came from a family in Connecticut. (Along with several others I bought at the same time.)
The man in the photograph has moved - hence the strange, pointy looking piratey peg-leg.