Boat Flags Long Beach Marina
by Joseph Hollingsworth
Title
Boat Flags Long Beach Marina
Artist
Joseph Hollingsworth
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
A festive event at the marina, in Shoreline Village, Long Beach California.
Nautical flags are an international code system used for two ships to signal to each other or for a ship to signal to shore. They are also called signaling nautical flags. Using a group of different colored flags, shaped flags and markings each one has a different meaning. The flags can be used alone or in combination with another flag.
Nautical flags are made up of 26 square flags (which represent the letters of the alphabet) along with 10 numbered pendants; one answering pendant and three substitutes or repeaters. At sea, only a few flag colors are easily recognized, these are: red, blue, yellow, black, and white and they cannot be mixed indiscriminately. For easy recognition nautical flags are either red and white, yellow and blue, blue and white, black and white along with plain red, white and blue.
Nautical flags and the knowledge of their meanings are valuable at sea in case of danger or breakdowns in other communications systems such as radio. One-flag signals are urgent or common signals.
Uploaded
November 8th, 2016
Statistics
Viewed 169 Times - Last Visitor from Fairfield, CT on 04/19/2024 at 12:24 AM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
