In addition to these the white and blue ensigns were also to be used for signalling purposes.
Until the end of the Roman Empire the standard was used at sea only for signalling purposes or to mark the ship in which the leader was embarked.
In this code we reach the culmination of the old system of signalling by means of a large number of different flags each having a different meaning according to the position in which it was shown.
The flags for signalling by the old method were mostly the same as those already in use.
But a code for signalling or other purposes is like a language; if the language is what we call "dead," i.
The earlier matter, though here examined solely from the point of view of the flags used, offers considerable interest to the student of naval tactics, with which indeed the art of signalling is inseparably connected.
As we could not always be together when we wished, we invented a system of signalling requiring a number of different colored flags; but we were not quite satisfied with it, for we could send but few communications by its use.
He was signalling and, of course, could see my signal.
When they go to Kirkee for Pioneer training they generally come out top in the machine-gun, musketry, and signalling courses, and they make excellent surveyors.
Submarine signalling has never received that public notice which wireless telegraphy has, for the reason that it does not appeal so readily to the popular mind.
Cruising lightships One or two internationally owned and controlled lightships, fitted with every known device for signalling and communication, would rob those regions of most of their terrors.
But we did know now that something was not far away, racing up to our help and signalling to us a preliminary message to cheer our hearts until she arrived.
Now, submarine signallinghas none of these defects, for the medium is water, subject to no such variable conditions as the air.
Submarine signalling apparatus There are occasions when wireless apparatus is useless as a means of saving life at sea promptly.
If the sound is of greater intensity on the port side, then the bell signalling is off the port bows; and similarly on the starboard side.
It was a very great pleasure to me to see all this apparatus in manufacture and in use at one of the principal submarine signalling works in America and to hear some of the remarkable stories of its value in actual practice.
Equally important is the provision of signalling apparatus on board ships: it is obviously just as necessary to transmit a signal as to receive one; but at present the sending of signals from ships has not been perfected.
He had been asked to cut down expenses by omitting the submarine signalling apparatus, but replied: "I would rather take out the wireless.
Major Warder, of the Scots, and the Signalling Officer of the Brigade had dinner with us.
Kitty and I shared one, Carol and Brand another, and Seddon and Douse, the Brigade Signalling Officer, another.
Then while I watched I saw a blue flare in the bows, only for a moment, as if a man had lit a squib and flung it overboard, but I knew from it she was a contrabandier, and signalling either to the shore or to a mate in the offing.
They would all be there waiting for us, though we could not see them, and they did not know that there were only two men that they were signalling to, and those two Moonfleet born.
The ground on either side of the Nek was occupied by pickets posted there mainly for signalling purposes.
The animals stampeded down the slope, and carrying with them not only the reserve ammunition but also the signalling equipment, the water carts, and the component parts of the mountain artillery, charged through the rear of the column.
No instructions reached him from Coke; he was unaware that the Twin Peaks had been taken by one of Lyttelton's battalions, and he was without means of signalling to Warren.
Thorneycroft heard of his appointment orally through an officer who had chanced to be at the signalling station, and the written message which never reached him was, it is said, picked up next day by a Boer!
The roaring of the fast-lifting torrent prevented conversation, and the darkness made signalling impossible except when the searchlights were held in position.
Well, she's been signalling to have this boat held until she arrives!
There were then no means of signalling a new order suddenly, and the old order to engage to leeward was still flying.
A line of frigates patrolled the space between the two ports within signalling distance of one another.
The best sailers of the English fleet were soon close upon them, and they were signalling for help.
No sooner were the French known to be under way than the English look-out frigates were signalling the news to one another all along the thirty miles of sea between Fort Royal and Gros Islet Bay.
Gurgurk then announced that so enormous a crime against the friends of His Sublime etcetera had not been allowed to go unpunished, signalling behind him with one of his lower hands for the box to be brought forward.
This obscure diversion caused the Dorringtons to be suspected of signalling at night to the rebels.
Gage had already arrested men supposed to have been signallingfrom steeples.
When she wasn't signalling Mary Ellen in a code of frowns and nods, Mrs. Hemphill spent her time searching with one foot for a mysterious bell that was concealed somewhere beneath the table.
Knowlton, by now, was signalling me to be careful, but I was having too much fun.
JOHN [signalling JUDGE to leave] If Helen asks for me, I'm in the garden.
She carried no guns except a couple of small brass signalling pieces.
Consequently the searchlights had been temporarily shut off and a signalling lamp brought into play to frame a fitting reply to the Englishmen's single-worded challenge.
Already the raider's semaphore was signalling to the Myra to cast off and anchor until the tide slackened.
This position was subsequently used as an aeroplanesignalling station.
Above is the wireless station, with its widespread aerials on a bare hill--deserted except for a few casual men who had burrowed deep and took their chance--and immense searchlights for signalling in a cavern in the hill.
Melbourne was stillsignalling and the Ibuki was preparing for action.
It was some 2 feet square, and, while it might have been merely a night signalling flag, it is more probable that it was carried for the purpose of trickery.
For some time she steamed back and forth, signalling in the international code for surrender, but without obtaining any answer.
Anderson was already signalling urgently for the medics, who'd been waiting to bring out what everyone was certain would be only dead bodies.
Moreover, Monk was signalling to Phinuit with his expressive eyebrows.
Lanyard got up in turn, and to his amazement found the eyebrows signalling confidentially to him.
Of course, just at present there was no signalling as we were on a wire; meanwhile I might take over the mess.
I had never done a signalling class, and pointed this out to the D.
Next morning I was appointedsignalling officer to the Division.
Some were manfully riding out the gale; others were holding on to their one remaining anchor, signalling for help, and as sorely in need of fresh anchors and chains as ever was King Richard of a horse.
Seeing that immediate help was needed, it appeared that the coxswain of the lifeboat proposed signalling a passing tug-boat, and wanted my sanction for the measure.
At the time the dugout was occupied by a large number of Headquarters staff, including the Colonel, the Adjutant, the Signalling Officer and Major Moore, but of these luckily none was hit.
Sykes left the Battalion for attachment to the Indian Army, and the signalling officer, Lieut.
The duties of signalling officer were taken by 2/Lieut.
Mr. Wells has perfected a method of signalling by means of wig-wag, light, smoke, or whistle which is as simple as it is effective.
I find it to be the simplest and most practical book on signalling published.
There was the Column busysignalling and settling it all with the Colonel.
No amount of the portentous signalling that went on night after night could resuscitate our faith in the Military.
Anyhow they were caught signalling one night, and on the following morning were arraigned before the Summary Court.
The Active is coming in slowly, and has been signallingus all the morning.
Another evening, about ten o'clock, a whole squadron of Austrian planes came over, flying in regular formation and signalling to one another with Morse lamps.
Cima del Taglio, one of the finest personalities in the Battery, a signalling Bombardier who had worked for some years on a railway in America and, just before the war, as a railway clerk in the Midlands.
Three signallers and a runner came with me, carrying rifles, bayonets and ammunition, a day's rations and much signalling gear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "signalling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
