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In his book Télégraphie Nautique Polyglotte, Reynold show a system used in England to express the numbers of boats This code is a different system from Popham's or Marryat's codes.
Dominique Cureau, 19-21 September 2006
Some of the individual flags, 1,2,4,5,8 and 0 had been used in Lord Howe's Code of 1790 as 5,8,9,6,2 and 0 respectively, but all ten flags, as a set, were probably introduced in 1827 when the Signal Books were revised.
The assigned values were changed in 1859 and the set of flags continued in use
as the Royal Navy's numeral flags until 1948
when the assigned values were 1,6,5,4,7,3,8,2,9 and 0.
David Prothero 22 September 2006
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Numeric 0 |
Numeric 1 |
Numeric 2 |
Numeric 3 |
Numeric 4 |
Numeric 5 |
Numeric 6 |
Numeric 7 |
Numeric 8 |
Numeric 9 |
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images by Dominique Cureau, 19-21 September 2006