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Flaghoist Signalling: The Home of Naval Reservists in The Southern Luzon

This document provides information about flaghoist signaling used by naval reservists. It discusses the advantages of flaghoist signaling including its rapid and accurate communication during daytime between ships. It outlines the parts of a flag, relevant terminology like halyards and flag bags. It details procedures for reading flaghoist signals, including from top to bottom and between yardarms of different heights. Finally, it provides the meanings for each letter flag from A to Z, such as flag A indicating divers down and flag E indicating altering course to starboard.

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Flaghoist Signalling: The Home of Naval Reservists in The Southern Luzon

This document provides information about flaghoist signaling used by naval reservists. It discusses the advantages of flaghoist signaling including its rapid and accurate communication during daytime between ships. It outlines the parts of a flag, relevant terminology like halyards and flag bags. It details procedures for reading flaghoist signals, including from top to bottom and between yardarms of different heights. Finally, it provides the meanings for each letter flag from A to Z, such as flag A indicating divers down and flag E indicating altering course to starboard.

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THE HOME OF NAVAL RESERVISTS IN THE SOUTHERN LUZON

FLAGHOIST SIGNALLING

1
CHAPTER
Chapter 1 VI

LECTURE ON
FLAGHOIST SIGNALING
LEARNING OUTCOME
Learning Outcome:

After the class discussion, the students are


expected to:

Be able to know what is flaghoist signaling and


its advantages
Know the procedures in flaghoist signalling
Know the different meanings of flags as hoisted
aboard ship
ADVANTAGES

1. Provides a rapid and accurate system of handling


tactical and international signals of reasonable length
during daytime between ships in proximity.
2. Ensures a more uniform execution of a
maneuver than any other system.
3. The navy uses the international alphabet flags,
numeral flags and pennants, special flags and
pennants and Navy flags.
PARTS OF FLAG
1. Flag - the length of the flag measured from the staff
to the outside edge.
2. Hoist - is the vertical width of the flag when flying
free.
3. Tabling - the double thickness of bunting type,
bound and switch which is at the hoist of the flag.
4. 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.
TERMINOLOGIES
1. Flag bag - a bag of flame metal covered with
canvass where signal bags are stowed.
2. 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.
3. Retriever - a separate line attached with a metal
ring to each halyard used to recover a lost flag.
4. Point of hoist - the block attached to the yardarm
through which the halyard carrying the hoist is rove.
TERMINOLOGIES
5. At the dip - when the hoist is three fourth of the
way up toward the point of hoist.
6. Closed-up - when the top flag is touching the point
of hoist.
7. Dipped - one a signal is closed up and is lowered a
fourth of the way down from the point of hoist.
8. Hoist - a signal consisting of one or more flags in a
single halyard.
9. Display - a complete signal, whether on one hoist or
on one hoist or on two or more adjacent hoist.
TERMINOLOGIES

10. 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.
PROCEDURES IN READING FLAGHOIST

1. Single joist - from top to down


2. Two or more hoist - from top to down, from
outboard
3. Triatic stay - from top to down, from forward to
4. Yardarm of different heights - from higher to
lower yardarm
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG

1. Flag A
a. Divers of friendly
underwater demolition
personnel down.
b. Displayed where best seen
c. Position indicator - precede
numerals latitude and longitude
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
2. Flag B
a. Weapons practices
b. Fueling or transferring of
explosives
c. Displayed on appropriate
side or where best seen
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
3. Flag C
a. Affirmative
b. Displayed where best
seen
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
4. Flag D
a. Degaussing
b. Displayed where best
seen
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
5. Flag E
– I am altering my course
to starboard
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
6. Flag F
a. Flight operations
b. Displayed where best
seen
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
7. Flag G
a. Guide flag
b. Displayed where best
seen
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
8. Flag H
a. Helicopter operations
b. Displayed on appropriate
side or where best seen
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
9. Flag I
a. Going alongside (In port or
at anchor)
b. Displayed on side rigged
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
10. Flag J
a. Semaphore message
b. Where best seen
c. Answered by
addressee(s)
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
11. Flag K
a. Personnel working aloft
b. Displayed where best
seen In port only
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
12. Flag L
a. RADRAZ ZERO WARMING
b. Displayed where best
seen
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
13. Flag M
a. Medical duty ship (Not
underway)
b. Displayed where best
seen
c. Movements (Underway)-
disregard my movements
d. Displayed where best
seen, repeated by addressee(s)
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
14. Flag N
a. Your movements not
understood
b. Displayed where best
seen, repeated by addressee(s)
c. Visual watch--not
keeping visual watch
In port- displayed where best
seen
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
15. Flag O
a. Man overboard
b. Displayed where best
seen
 
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
16. Flag P
a. General recall - all
personnel belonging to this unit
return to ship immediately.
b. In port
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
17. Flag Q
a. Boat recall
b. Displayed where best
seen
 
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
18. Flag R
a. Replenishing or transferring
alongside method
b. Fueling astern method
c. Displayed on side rigged/
on side hose is rigged
d. Ready duty ship (Roger
ship)
e. Displayed where best
seen
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
19. Flag S
a. Drill signal - signal flying is
for flaghoist drill only
b. Displayed where best
seen
 
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
20. Flag T
a. Time indicator - precede
numerals
b. Displayed where best
seen
 
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
21. Flag U
a. Anchoring, mooring,
weighing anchor
b. Displayed where best
seen or on appropriate side
 
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
22. Flag V
a. Streaming/recovering
towed sonic devices not
including mine sweeping
equipment.
b. Displayed on
appropriate side or where best
seen
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
23. Flag W
a. Information addressee- info
addressee follow
b. At yardarm
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
24. Flag Y
a. Exercise -
evolution/exercise completed
b. Displayed at fore
yardarm repeated by
addressee(s)
 
MEANING OF ALPHABET
FLAG
26. Flag X
a. I require a tug.
b. When made by fishing
vessels operating in close
proximity on the fishing grounds,
it means “I am shooting nets”.
MEANING OF ALPHABET
25. Flag Z FLAG
a. Acknowledge - repeated by
addressee
b. Displayed at yardarm
c. Location of OTC
d. Displayed where best
seen
e. Visual communication
duty ship - A visual
communication duty ship
f. Displayed where best seen
END of
LECTURE

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