Flags at Sea: A Guide to the Flags Flown at Sea by British and Some Foreign Ships from the 16th Century to the Present Day - Illustrated from the Collections of the National Maritime Museum - Softcover

National Maritime Museum; Wilson, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0112903894 ISBN 13: 9780112903895

Publisher: Stationery Office Books, 1986

Synopsis

This is a history of the flags flown at sea by the principal naval powers - Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA - during the Age of Sail. The subject is one that has been obscured by curious myths and misunderstandings about where, when and why certain flags - like the piratical 'Jolly Roger' - were flown, and this book's narrative aims to unravel these issues. It also tackles such apparently complicated issues as signalling in peace and war. The book also contains a profusion of illustrations, covering the many variants of well-known flags, in both contemporary flag-charts and modern drawings done specially for this work. It therefore provides the degree of detail demanded by modelmakers, artists and historians.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stationery Office Books
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0112903894
• ISBN 13: 9780112903895
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128