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Red and white stripes, tapering.
Also known as: Code pennant, Reply pennant
The International Code of Signals pennant used to acknowledge a signal and to act as a decimal point in numeric groups.
Acknowledges a signal: hoisted at the dip while the signal is being read, and close up when it has been understood.
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Also serves as the decimal point within a numeric group, so one pennant does an acknowledgement and a punctuation job that have nothing to do with each other.
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The two-position convention — at the dip, then close up — makes the flag a two-state indicator rather than a single message, which no letter flag is.
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A tapering pennant of vertical red and white stripes, flown at the dip while a signal is being read and close up once it is understood.