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The International Code Flags are used to dress ship. In nautical practice, it is said that the flags are 'worn' and not 'flown' by the vessel. Officer's flags, club burgees and national flags are not used as part of the bunting. The ship is dressed at 0800 and remains dressed (at anchor only, except for a vessel's maiden or final voyage) until evening colours/colors at sunset.
The 'hoist' is done in the following sequence . . .
1. The yacht ensign or national ensign at the stern staff
2. Courtesy flag (if in foreign port) on starboard flag halyard
3. The Union Jack may be displayed at the bow staff
4. Club or fleet or association burgee on a pig stick to masthead or to the 'starboard spreader', alone, on its own and separate flag halyard
5. A rainbow of International Code flags are then arranged from the waterline forward 'up and over' (that is to all mast heads) to the waterline aft. Flags and pennants are bent on alternately. Since there are twice as many letter flags as numeral/repeater pennants, it is good practice to follow a sequence of two flags, one pennant, two flags, one pennant, etc. A weight is used as a sinker at each end of the string of flags at the waterline fore and aft.
The 'drop' is done in the reverse order of the above.
The sequence of the code flags can be any order but the following is the long accepted 'recommended order' to give a harmonious color pattern. This also avoids the possibility of a hidden message being set in the hoist.
Starting from the waterline forward, to the masthead(s), and to the water line aft . . .
A B 2 U J 1 K E 3 G H 6 I V 5 F L 4 D M 7 P O Third Repeater R N First Repeater S T Zero C X 9 W Q 8 Z Y Second Repeater
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Why did Horatio Nelson use flags to signal in the battle of Trafalgar?
They had not invented radio or the mobile phone by that time.Answer Signal flags were (and still are) used for ship-to-ship (and ship-to-shore and vice versa) communication for centuries. This was the only means of getting messages from one ship to another during daylight hours other than by physically travelling between them. At night, signalling was more problematical, and before the invention of signalling lamps and the Morse code, night signals were very simple (lamp covered 3 times, for instance).
Did a ship pass by the Titanic without aiding it?
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What was christopher Columbus's flag ship called?
His flags name was Columbus Flag!!:) It has an F, a cross and a Y on it.!:)
How do you dress a ship with flags and on what occasions would you do it?
Dress Ship, To. To array or rig out a vessel with flags and pennants in honor of a person or event. Formerly, such display was often carried to the extreme "rainbow fashion" of running a line of bunting from waters edge to jib-boom end, thence to fore, main, and mizzeen trucks down to spanker boom, and over the stern to water; also, on special gala occasions flags were displayed in vertical line between each yard-arm, in addition to the rainbow dress. Today, a single vertical line of International Code flags at each mast, with national colors aft, house flag at maintruck, and jack at the fore commonly constitutes dressing ship in the merchant service; rainbow dress, however, often is seen, especially in naval vessels, and now amounts to a display above deck on a line from stem to stern via the mastheads. Ref: Enclopidia of Nautical Knowledge, Cornell maritime Press, Copyright 1953, 1992 ed. page 141 I don't know if the customs have changed, but in the 1970s we "dressed ship" with the rainbow whenever we were anchored in a foreign port.
What are ships to ship signal flag communications?
It is a semaphore. They use flag signals to communicate with other ships.
