By Captain Colomb's plan, the lime light being used on shore, and a plain white light at sea, is capable of transmitting messages by the relative positions of long and short dashes of light by night, and of collapsing cones by day.
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Flash>>. II. Flashing ·noun A mode of covering transparent white glass with a ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Codes of signals have been used for centuries and changed frequently. Their use is too well known to...
The Sailor's Word-Book
To raise or set off. ...
The naval code established by guns to keep a fleet together, to tack, wear, and perform sundry evolu...
See numerary signals ...
or marryat's signals A useful code used by the mercantile marine, by an arrangement of flags from ...
·add. ·- A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arr...
Series of flags, &c., for communicating at sea. ...
Is to make the same signal exhibited by the admiral, in order to its being more readily distinguishe...
As Marryat's and others. ...