Flag Hoist Signaling

•  Flag - the length of the flag measured from the staff to the outside edge.
• Hoist - is the vertical width of the flag when flying free.
• Tabling - the double thickness of bunting type, bound and switch which is at the hoist of the flag.
• Tail line - a short length of halyard attached to the lower part of the tabling and carrying the snap hook,  it serves as the spacer separating the flags of a hoist for clearness.
•  Flag bag - a bag of flame metal covered with canvass where signal bags are stowed.
• Halyards - light lines used in bending flags - numbered from out board to in board.
• Uphaul - part of halyard that is made fast to the last flag in a hoist.
• Retriever - a separate line attached with a metal ring to each halyard used to recover a lost flag.
•  Point of hoist - the block attached to the yardarm through which the halyard carrying the hoist is rove.
• At the dip - when the hoist is three fourth of the way up toward the point of hoist.
• Closed-up - when the top flag is touching the point of hoist.
• Dipped - one a signal is closed up and is lowered a fourth of the way down from the point of hoist.
• Hoist - a signal consisting of one or more flags in a single halyard.
• Display - a complete signal, whether on one hoist or on one hoist or on two or more adjacent hoist.
• Tack line - a 6 feet length of halyard having a ring at one end and a snap hook at the other used to separate flags or groups of flag.
• Flag A - Divers of friendly underwater demolition personnel down.
• Flag B - Weapons practices
• Flag B - Fueling or transferring of explosives
• Flag C - Affirmative
• Flag D - Degaussing
• Flag E - I am altering my course to starboard
• Flag F - Flight Operations
• Flag G - Guide Flag
• Flag H - Helicopter Operations
• Flag I - Going alongside
• Flag J - Semaphore Flag
• Flag K - Personnel working aloft
• Flag L - RadRaz Zero Warming
• Flag M - Medical duty ship
• Movements (Underway)-disregard my movements
• Flag N - Your movements not understood
• Flag O - Man overboard
• Flag P - general recall
• General recall - all personnel belonging to this unit return to ship immediately
• Flag Q - Boat recall
• Flag R - Repleneshing or transferring alongside method
• Flag S - Drill signal
• Drill signal - signal flying is for flaghoist drill only
• Flag T - time indicator
• time indicator - precede numerals