George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
When he’d try to blow open a safe, he had a habit of using too much gunpowder and destroying the contents of the safe.
This made sense.
George bombed the safe that contained his annual employee reviews, but it wasn’t a good thing when it came to annihilating a safe full of money.
Well, the Gold and Silver survived the blast. George just needed to pick through the wreckage for it all.
Or pry it out of any unlucky bastards who happened to be standing around at the time.