In the period 1910 to 1930 ALL boy's (seamen and communicators) were taught the sending and receiving of the Morse Code using hand flags.

  This was regularly used for short messages from ships to their seaboats (for example) and between small vessels which did not carry a communicator.

  The direct alternative to this system was semaphore but that was a skill only signalmen mastered and when used between competent signalmen at fleet speed, it was a very impressive sight. Morse by hand flags required the user to learn and remember just four flag states as follows:-

A Dot	A Dash	Seperation between Dots and Dashes	Seperation between letters and words

  Boys became proficient and ready for sea as shown in the middle animation below. An expert could master the speed of the animation on the right, whereas sea cadets and boy scouts achieved speeds shown in the animation on the left.

  Now in anticipation to the question posed below to the entry one below the following. (wait for it) you are about to see a bit of real time signalling with Morse Code Flags, but before you view it click on this ink and watch a little video. When you have viewed the different speeds all sending the same message which you can re-run if necessary, CLOSE the video to return to the questions below and answer it. Then you have finished this page and you can go and look elsewhere. Bye bye.

Quarter Speed	Half Speed	Full Speed>

What is being transmitted?