Signal Flag
Battle Harbour National Historic Site
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| Nom de l'objet : | Signal Flag |
| Type de l'objet : | Flag, Signal |
| Classification de l'objet : | Man-made Artefact |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | Tools & Equipment for Communication |
| Sous-catégorie de l'objet : | Visual Communication Tools & Equipment |
| Discipline : | History Maritime History |
| Matériaux : | Cloth Bunting Wood Iron |
| Technique de fabrication : | Cut Sewn Shaped Banded |
| Numéro d'accession : | 231 |
| Province d'utilisation : | Newfoundland and Labrador Pre-confederation Newfoundland |
| Pays d'utilisation : | Canada Dominion of Newfoundland |
| Culture : | Canadian Pre-confederation Newfoundland |
| Secteur géo-culturel : | North America Europe |
| Contexte culturel : | Merchant Navy Flag Communication |
| Date de début de production : | 1900 |
| Date de fin de production : | 1950 |
| Période : | 1st Half 20th Century |
| Description : | This artifice is a barrel containing numerous signal flags. The flags are made from a bunting and are comprised of the recognised geometric shapes and colours set out in Brown's Signalling hand book. They consist of various combinations of white, blue, red, and yellow triangles, circles, squares, and rectangles. The flags are machine stitches and a number have a reinforced edge that has a short length of rope attached. This was the attachment point of flag to pole. The Barrel they have been stored in is a standard wooden stave barrel banded by 4 iron hoops, to top and two bottom. The outside of the barrel is in unfinished and discoloured in various sections. The lid for the barrel has been made by the joining of 4 boards cut to fit the inside circumference of the barrel's top. The top has been reinforced by 4 perpendicular braces to which a handle has been attached. |
| Commentaires : | Prior to the advent of shipboard radio, most maritime communication was visual. The adaptation of semaphore, the movement of coloured flags and in and out of specific positions, allowed ships to communicate to each other and land by spelling out their message. By the mid nineteenth century an international system of specialised semaphore flags was adopted for use among merchant navies. The system consisted of a number of rectangular flags that housed multicoloured geometric shapes. Each distinct flag bore a specific message. By the beginning of the twentieth century the language was complex enough to warrant a coxed of the flags and their meanings. The use of signal flags continued on for a period after the implementation of radio but as wireless communication improved the flags became obsolete. The presence of numerous company, supply, and foreign vessels meant that merchant companies had to understand and employ signal flags for communication with the ships that visited Battle Harbour throughout the year. |
| Fonctions : | Signal flags were used in the days prior to shipboard radios. Hung from ropes attached to the mast of a ship they were used to communicate particular messages regarding the ship. Unlike semaphore, signal flags were not waved in patterns to convey a message, as each flag had a specific standardised meaning. |
| Longueur : | 90 |
| Largeur : | 60 |
| Unité de mesure linéaire : | cm |
| Nombre d'objets : | 3 |
| Nombre de parties composantes : | 5 |
| Nom des parties composantes : | Barrel Barrel Lid 3 Signal Flags |
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| Ville de l'établissement : | Battle Harbour |
| Province de l'établissement : | Newfoundland and Labrador |
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