Soldiers And Sailors Or Anecdotes Details And Recollections of Naval And Mi
Soldiers And Sailors Or Anecdotes Details And Recollections of Naval And Mi
1787 1854 Old Humphrey
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When the 2nd substitute is used, it is the same number as the second flag flying. When uppermost, it adds 12, 000. When the 3rd substitute is used, it stands for the same as the up- permost flag flying. When above it, it adds 13, 000. " We are not able to make out how the flags are to be used. You must please to explain it to us. " " Suppose, then, that every ship in the navy had a general signal-book, full of such orders and such sentences as are most likely to be wanted, and every one of them... numbered. Do you not see that when flag No. 7 is hoisted by one ship, other ships have only to look at No. 7 in their signal- book, to know what it means. " 148 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. " Yes, that is very clear. But can thirteen flags say all that can be wanted to be said ?" " A system of signals of thirteen flags, which I once saw, was able, by using only four flags at a time, to form nearly fourteen thousand combina- tions. I will show you how to form numbers with the flags in the print. . ___ Hoist flag No.
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