SIGNALS. 
go on with an easy sail, till he conies a- 
head. When any ship discovers land, he is 
to hoist his jack and ensign, and keep it 
abroad till the admiral answer him by hoist- 
ing his, on sight of which he is to hawt 
down his ensign. If any discovers danger, 
he is to tack and bear up from it, and to 
hang his jack abroad from the main-top- 
mast cross trees, and to fire two gnns : but 
if he should strike or stick fast, then, be- 
sides the same signal with his jack, he is to 
keep firing, till he sees all the fleet observe 
him, aad endeavour to avoid the danger. 
When the admiral would have the vice-ad- 
miral to send out ships to chase, he hoists a 
flag striped white and red on the flag-staff 
at the fore-top-mast-head, and fires a gun : 
hut if he would have the rear-admiral do 
so, he hoists the same signal on the flag-staff 
at the mizen-top-mast-head, and fires a gun. 
When he would have them give over chase, 
he hoists a white flag on his flag-staff at the 
fore-top-mast-head, and fires a gun ; which 
signal is also to be made by that flag-ship 
■which is nearest the ship that gives chase, 
till the chasing ship sees the signal. When 
the admiral would have the fleet prepare to 
anchol', he hoists an ensign striped red, 
blue, and white on the ensign-staff; and 
fires a gun ; and every flag-ship makes the 
same signal. 
Besides these, there are many other sig- 
nals used by day; and different signals, 
upon these and other occasions, used by 
night: and others also when a fleet sails in 
a fog ; all of which are to be found in the 
Book of Signals. 
The signals for managing a sea-fight are 
also very numerous, the principal of which 
are as follow: when the admiral would 
have the fleet form a line of battle, one 
ship a-head of another, he hoists an union- 
flag at the mizen peek, and fires a gun ; and 
every flag-ship does the like. But when 
they are to form a line of battle one a- 
breast of another, he hoists a pendant with 
the union-flag, &c. When he would have 
the admiral of the white,^ or he that com- 
mands in the second post, to tack, and en- 
deavour to gain the wind of the enemy, he 
spreads a white flag under the flag at the 
main-top-mast-head, and fires a gun: and 
when he 'would have the admiral of the 
blue do so, he does the same with the blue 
flag. If he would have the vice-admiral of 
the red do so, he spreads a red flag from 
the cap, on the main-top-mast-head down- 
ward on the back-stay ; if the vice-admiral 
of the blue, he spreads a blue flag, and 
fires a gun : if he would have the rear-ad- 
miral of the red do so, he hoists a red flag 
at the flag-staff at the mizen-top-mast-head; 
if the rear-admiral of the white, a white 
flag; if the rear-admiral of the blue, a blue 
flag, and under it a pendant of the same 
colour, with a gun. If he would have him 
that commands in the second post of his 
squadron to make more sail, he hoists a 
white flag on the ensign-staff; but if he 
that commands in the third post be to do 
so, he hoists a blue flag, and fires a gun ; 
and all the flag-ships must make the same 
signal. Whenever he hoists a red flag on 
the flag-staff at the fore-top-mast-head, and 
fires a gun, every ship in the fleet must use 
their utmost endeavour to engage the 
enemy in the order prescribed . When he 
hoists a white flag on his mizen peek, and 
fires a gun, all the small frigates of his 
squadron, tliat are not of the line of battle, 
are to come under the stern. If the fleet 
be sailing by a wind in the line of battle, 
and the admiral would have them brace 
their head-sails to the mast, he hoists up a 
yellow flag on the flag-staff at the mizen- 
top-mast-head, and fires a gun, which the 
flag-ships are to answer, and then the ships 
in the rear are to brace first. After tliis, if 
he would have them fall their head-sails, 
and stand on, he hoists a yellow flag on the 
flag-staff of the fore-top-mast-head, and 
liras a gun, which the flag-ship must answer; 
and then the ships in the van must fall first, 
and stand on. If, when this signal is made, 
the red-flag at the fore^top-mast-head be 
abroad, he spreads the yellow flag under 
the red-flag. If the fleets being near one 
another, the admiral would have all the 
ships to tack together, the sooner to lie in a 
posture to engage the enemy, he hoists an 
union-flag on the flag staves at the fore and 
mizen-top-mast-heads, and fires a gun ; and 
all the flag-ships are to do the same. The 
fleet being in a line of battle, if he would 
have the ship that leads the van, hoist, 
lower, set, or hawl-up any of his sails, he 
spreads a yellow flag under that at his 
main-top-mast-head, and fires a gun ; which 
signal the flag-ships are to answer : and the 
admiral will hoist, lower, set, or hawl-up 
the sail, which he would have the ships that 
lead the van do ; which is to be answered 
by the flag-ships of the fleet. When the 
enemies run, and he would have the whole 
fleet follow them, he makes all the sail he 
can after them himself, takes down the sig- 
nal for the line of battle, and fires two guns 
out of his fore-chase, which the flag-ships 
