and where they should be displayed on the boat. There are national flags, signal flags, burgees and pennants. For our purposes, we’ll focus on sport fishing boats, which, over the years, have adapted ...

Someone had made off with some of its signal flags, all the ones for the letters O and N. But the culprit, aboard the Schooner Virginia, had a reason . As the ships readied to join the Parade of ...

"When Nelson sent the signal using these flags he did so by a new technique known as telegraph. "Each ship had a code book with words allocated numbers. A message would be spelt via a series of ...