Posted by Mike Field on May 13, 2009 at 13:24:33 user mikefield.
In Reply to: one hoot - turning to starboard posted by Ed Kiser on May 13, 2009 at 03:24:28:
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Thanks Ed, you're a marvel. I hadn't picked up on that "Si" and "Non" before at all.
Flicks for dots and sweeps for dashes are pretty standard for morse signalling with a flag, I believe. (I'm not sure that the side of the body that the flag is used on is important.)
They also use the U signal in 'Great Northern?' if you remember, when all the decoys were at last being rounded up by the Gaels, while Dick was getting his photos in the hide.
(By the way, three hoots means "I'm putting my engines astern," which could be useful to the other vessel to know if it were the D&Gs doing the signalling, but not a lot if it was the Queen Mary.)
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