signal halyard

That's true, and they've obviously had to rig signal halyards.

He cupped his hands and shouted down to the men on the signal halyards.

Surely tearing down one tower would have the same effect as cutting a signal halyard?

He attached the banner Aboli had given him to the signal halyard, ready to fly it at his father's order.

We have to repeat all signals that the Commodore might make, so rig spare signal halyards in case any get shot away.

Hal heaved on the signal halyard, and the silken bundle soared to the masthead.

His signal halyards had been torn away by shot, and some time passed before he was able to notify Saumarez of his predicament.

As they watched, a hoist of flags broke out and fluttered from theCaptain's signal halyards. '

Aloft there, mainmast: Jenkins, unreeve that signal halyard.

The wind whistled across the deck, and through the mast structure with its many signal halyards - oh, that's what Riley did, Alison realized.

The flags dropped limply from the signal halyards as scurrying small boats brought over admirals and generals from the various lesser flagships.

Balls of brightly colored bunting spilled out of the flag bags, and four of them were bent on to the signal halyards in the proper sequence.

Cause confusion - yes, if San Antonio opened fire, Ramage decided, then the Calypso would hoist signal flags wherever a signal halyard was rove.

From the signal halyard fluttered eight tiny Japanese flags, one for each Japanese ship believed to have been sunk by Wahoo to that point in the war.

Ferris attempted to notify Saumarez of his ship's precarious position, but his signal halyards had been torn away by shot and it was sometime before assistance could be organised.

He watched seamen go to the flag locker, secure two sequences of flags to the signal halyards, and then hoist them smartly after tying them into neat bundles.

Modoc was spared the attentions of British gunnery only through a jammed signal halyard on Prince of Wales, which delayed the engagement long enough for a positive identification to be made.

A few minutes later he followed that with: "Flagship about to hoist a signal, sir," having caught sight of a couple of seamen handling coloured bunting and preparing to hoist away at a signal halyard.

Even as he looked he saw three tiny bundles soaring up on theVictory's signal halyards and turned to point them out to Jackson, but the American was already watching with his telescope for the flagship's seamen to give the tug that would break out the flags.

Thus rigged, they somewhat resembled the much larger contemporary Royal Navy protected cruisers such as the Astrea class and Eclipse class, which had two "military masts", principally used for signal halyards, lookout positions and fighting tops, but designed to set auxiliary fore-and-aft sails in an emergency.