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Article: Flags afloat: flying from stem to stern, they can be decorative or descriptive. (Cruise Primer).(cruise ship flags)
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- Cruise Travel
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- January 1, 2002
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Standing on the sun deck and gazing upward at the ship's mast, a good stiff breeze sends the flags snapping--and wandering minds to thinking, "What do they all mean?"
Flags often say quite a lot, even in this day of instant communication. Additionally, there may be a flag at the bow, another at the stern, a whole string of them draped from the bow up and over the ship in a series of arcs and down to the stern. And you may have even seen one painted on the side of a ship. Sometimes, the flags are flying, sometimes the pole is bare, and on other occasions you see them hoisted or lowered.
Flags send signals that, for instance: this ship is British, she's ...