The show tells the story of Frederic, who is leaving his life of pirate-hood because his contract of servitude is over. Once he gets onshore, he meets a group of lovely sisters and immediately falls in love with the beautiful Mabel.
Unfortunately, the other pirates plan on stealing the other sisters to be their wives against the girls' will. So their father, Major-General Stanley, tells the sympathetic pirates that he is an orphan, even though he is not, to save his daughters.
Frederic pulls together a band of nervous cops, led by the Constable. Unfortunately, the cops soon are hunting Frederic himself, because he is forced to rejoin the pirates. In the end, however, the cops stop the pirates without shedding any blood by charging them yield to their Queen, for with all the pirates' faults, they love their Queen.