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Hoisting Signal Flags on the Carrie Winslow
Document Type: Photo/Image
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ID Number: Montgomery_B4-A
Keywords: Life at Sea, Communications, LB1990.49.36
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Description:
The signal flags were the means of identifying a vessel to other vessels like a license plate on an automobile. This vessel's signal was JTQL. Here signal flags are hoisted to send a message to another vessel. The photograph was taken by the captain's daughter , Ruth Montgomery in 1898, aboard the bark Carrie Winslow.
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