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  • signals

    Codes of signals have been used for centuries and changed frequently. Their use is too well known to...

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  • flashing-signals

    By Captain Colomb's plan, the lime light being used on shore, and a plain white light at sea, is cap...

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  • fog-signals

    The naval code established by guns to keep a fleet together, to tack, wear, and perform sundry evolu...

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  • numerary signals

    or marryat's signals A useful code used by the mercantile marine, by an arrangement of flags from ...

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  • Very's night signals

    ·add. ·- A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arr...

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  • code of signals

    Series of flags, &c., for communicating at sea. ...

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  • repeat signals, to

    Is to make the same signal exhibited by the admiral, in order to its being more readily distinguishe...

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  • commercial code of signals

    As Marryat's and others. ...

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