George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He liked to bop people with anchors. He thought it was amusing.
The people whom George bopped with the anchors didn’t.
When they came to, that is. Quite a few didn’t, because getting bopped with an anchor tends to stave in skulls.
That’s somewhat deadly.
Then, their next-of-kin didn’t think it all that amusing, with the hassle of planning funerals and all that.
Unless, of course, they inherited a share of treasure from their recently-bopped relative.
Then, I’m sure the gold and silver helped then get over their grief.