Flag etiquette question

[Boo2]

There are seemingly two flags being flown from the *port* spreaders. Should surely be normal to fly courtesy flags from the starboard spreaders ? The numerals painted on the side belie it being a mirrored image which was my first thought.

Not intending to start a current affairs thread here relating to the original source of the image, it's strictly a flag etiquette quesion.

Boo

 

[capnsensible]

Difficult to see clearly. As a warship though, the flags maybe international signal flags. Just a guess.

 

[veshengro]

It's the Grey Funnel Line Bunting Tossers, could be a signal to Mum ashore to get the kettle on...

 

[Seashoreman]

That photo looks too perfect to be real? Is it AI ? Reversed Russian. Water line at shore is without blemish?
Smoke/steam going astern but flags are blowing forward ?

 

[Poignard]

There are seemingly two flags being flown from the *port* spreaders. Should surely be normal to fly courtesy flags from the starboard spreaders ? The numerals painted on the side belie it being a mirrored image which was my first thought.

Not intending to start a current affairs thread here relating to the original source of the image, it's strictly a flag etiquette quesion.

Boo

This is not this is not my "part of ship" but how do you know that the appropriate courtesy flags are not being flown at the starboard yard and that those you see to port have some other significance; eg a squadron pennant or suchlike? (I can't make out what they are on my mobile)

Surely we have some deck officers here who would know the answer.

 

[[199490]]

That photo looks too perfect to be real? Is it AI ? Reversed Russian. Water line at shore is without blemish?
Smoke/steam going astern but flags are blowing forward ?

I suspect you are right, it’s a Russian ‘news’ picture so probably photoshopped

File:Russian Navy Frigate Admiral Golovko.jpg - Wikipedia

There are several similar pictures with different backgrounds online

 

[LittleSister]

It's the Grey Funnel Line . . .

Grey Smog Line more like!

All that smoke when they're just pottering along? Those motors could do with an Italian tune-up, by the look of it.

 

[LittleSister]

That photo looks too perfect to be real? Is it AI ? Reversed Russian. Water line at shore is without blemish?
Smoke/steam going astern but flags are blowing forward ?

Telephoto lens, low res image and shore below sea horizon?

 

[johnalison]

They look like two signal flag 7s with a black ball behind. I’m not sure what 77 stands for, probably “women welcome aboard”.

 

[Blue Seas]

Yes, just looks likes 7's which, given the pennant number 456, might fit in.

 

[Mark L]

They look like two signal flag 7s with a black ball behind. I’m not sure what 77 stands for, probably “women welcome aboard”.

Two "И" flags in the Russian navy signal codes I believe.

 

[Wansworth]

I used to have the code book for twoflag codes but found there was little use up in the mountains.

 

[Poignard]

I used to have the code book for twoflag codes but found there was little use up in the mountains.

You were up in the mountain's?

Sorry, sorry! I didn't notice there was no apostrophe.

Memo to self: must go to specSavers.

 

[Wansworth]

You were up in the mountain's?

Sorry, sorry! I didn't notice there was no apostrophe.

Memo to self: must go to specSavers.

Pendants revenge

 

[capnsensible]

Just another target anyway.......

 

[LittleSister]

Two "И" flags in the Russian navy signal codes I believe.

Fred drift alert!

That reminds me that long ago I bought a small dinghy as a tender (I still have it, decades later, and have to move it yet again in the next few days).

At the time my then partner and myself had been having an ongoing conversation/joke about the romantic names the boats are often given - 'WInd Flower', 'Sea Mist' etc. - in contrast to the ongoing reality of maintenance drudgery, oil, paint, aggro, cost, seasickness, etc. they often are. I thought my new dinghy, especially with its mundane role in life, ought to have a decidedly unromantic name, and 'Kevin' was the one that I first settled in. Fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately) we then met a particularly nice man named Kevin, and that choice no longer seemed appropriate.

I then, for some reason, became very keen on naming the dinghy 'The Inevitable Triumph of the Proletariat' (come the revolution it would be transformed into a glamorous yacht, was part of the joke), and I was tickled by the idea of getting name transfers made up of that name with cod-Russian script - reversed 'R's, etc. It turned out this requirement, plus the length of the name multiplied three times (two bows and a stern), made the cost prohibitive (I blame capitalism, or something like that ), meanwhile I had started to think that some of my fellow yachtspersons, who tend, in my experience, to lean to the right, might not get the joke and assume I was a rabid commie.

The dinghy remained unnamed for several decades, and was generally referred to as 'it'. It did eventually get a name, but is still referred to as 'it', and I still think it would have cut a dash sporting 'The Inevitable Triumph of the Proletariat' in cod-Russian script!

 

[capnsensible]

Fred drift alert!

That reminds me that long ago I bought a small dinghy as a tender (I still have it, decades later, and have to move it yet again in the next few days).

At the time my then partner and myself had been having an ongoing conversation/joke about the romantic names the boats are often given - 'WInd Flower', 'Sea Mist' etc. - in contrast to the ongoing reality of maintenance drudgery, oil, paint, aggro, cost, seasickness, etc. they often are. I thought my new dinghy, especially with its mundane role in life, ought to have a decidedly unromantic name, and 'Kevin' was the one that I first settled in. Fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately) we then met a particularly nice man named Kevin, and that choice no longer seemed appropriate.

I then, for some reason, became very keen on naming the dinghy 'The Inevitable Triumph of the Proletariat' (come the revolution it would be transformed into a glamorous yacht, was part of the joke), and I was tickled by the idea of getting name transfers made up of that name with cod-Russian script - reversed 'R's, etc. It turned out this requirement, plus the length of the name multiplied three times (two bows and a stern), made the cost prohibitive (I blame capitalism, or something like that ), meanwhile I had started to think that some of my fellow yachtspersons, who tend, in my experience, to lean to the right, might not get the joke and assume I was a rabid commie.

The dinghy remained unnamed for several decades, and was generally referred to as 'it'. It did eventually get a name, but is still referred to as 'it', and I still think it would have cut a dash sporting 'The Inevitable Triumph of the Proletariat' in cod-Russian script!

Awesome. I really appreciate lateral thinking and the surprises it gives to enrich our lives. BZ

 

[capnsensible]

Mrs S has a line dancing platoon of Parkinsons people. They are fab. When looking for a name, because of the cowboy link, I suggested 'I've been lonesome in my saddle since my horse died' but they've gone for ' The movers and shakers'. Love it.

 

[capnsensible]

Ahh, a memory. Was on a Nicholson 55 from Joint Services a few decades ago. We got a berth in the middle of Hamburg. A rather large motor yacht docked fwd of us called Highlander. It was kinda British Racing Green with a gold stripe. It's helicopter (gold with a green stripe ) was called Capitalist Tool. When we pointed out that taking off at 0630 near a yacht with hungover crew was a bit antisocial, they really didn't give a rats bottom. Fair one!!

 

[michael_w]

Warships never fly courtesy flags.