Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON SIGNALING WITH FLAGS language or the system of 1 marine signaling if something that most of us have witnessed it we have not bad the opportunity to tee this in operation at first hand we have seen in the movies the blue jackets of one ship conversing with a vessel perhaps half a mile away bv means of flags which they waved in the air according to a certain code the code in use Is universal so a vessel using a signal boob printed in english can communicate with a ves eel using a signal book printed in italian or the language of any other maritime nation it Is of origin and dates from 1856 the ose of flags as signals however Is of ancient origin the venetians are known to have made wide use of them in this way and there Is evl dence that simple signals of this kind were employed in still earlier times it was not until 1856 however that great britain initiated the system that Is aed throughout the world today copyright 1 |