verso Plate I and portion of margin across gutter, facing (and showing some variety of offset from) Plate II (Signal Flags and Lights, Repeaters, etc), 90º cw, inv., 10-1.00-255 ex General Signal Book of the Navy of the United States of America (1876) Phillips Library, PEM copy/scan : link

note: The plates are identified as originating from the “Bureau of Navigation, 1883;” they were evidently added later to this book, hence the rough glueing / dramatic sea-land-sky scapes).

  3222       Eddy wind-s 3223       Eddy tide-s   2219       In the channel 1982       Muddy bottom   3677       A little farther 1984       Rocky bottom   4128       Get-s-ting-gotten 7492       Soundings gained   5280       Look-s-ed-ing                 looking for my words   5287       Is, or are looking out, to, or for 3221       Eddy-ies   5293       Lose-s-ing-lost-loss-es 5296       Loose-d-en-ly-ness, (see sail)   62            Lost an anchor 63            No anchor left   —   2215       Change of moon 2216       Change of tide   2217       Change of wind 8441       Vocabulary-ies   7852       Symbols change 5391       I have no map of the vicinity   —   3969       Forget-s-ting-got-ten 2227       A different channel                   knotty in the lower reaches 3673       Far enough                   looser in the aspirates 8609       What-ever-soever   8722       How is the vessel to windward standing? 8723       How does the stranger to windward bear?   2277       Should the weather clear 3833       Lower flag  

sources

Thornton A. Jenkins (1811-93 *), compiler, Code of flotilla and boat squadron signals for the United States Navy (1861) LC copy, entire, at archive.org

and

  Yes.       1 No.       2   A.       3 B.       4 C.       5   North.       29 E.       37 S.       45 W.       53   Aground, I am.       64 Aground, are you ?       65 Belong, to what place do you?       119   Bilged, has it ?       121 Letters, your telegraphic, show.       380   Outside, nothing.       469 Outside, it is so thick, nothing can be seen.       470   Sail, there is a, in sight.       565 Sail, there is a strange one in sight.       567   Weigh I shall, upon the ebb.       731 Weigh I shall, upon the flood.       732   Weigh I shall, at slack water.       733 Weigh I shall, when the wind changes.       734   Weigh I shall.       736

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phrases ex Part First, Telegraphic phrases, to be used between telegraph stations and vessels entering or leaving port. in Abraham A. Leggett, his The telegraphic dictionary : being a list of all the phrases, words, names of vessels, countries, ports, harbours, islands, &c., likely to occur in telegraphic communications, either at sea or on shore: arranged according to the plan adopted by the Merchants' exchange company of New York. New York, Printed by Gray and Bunce, 1828. from NYPL copy

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  Aground, I am.       77 Boat, mine will not swim.       149   Bound, where are you ?       158   Breeze, when it springs up.       166 Breeze, when it goes down.       167   Days, how many have you been out ?       252 Days, how many ago ?       253   Land, it is in sight.       381 Land, how does it bear ?       382 Land, I see.       383 Land, what do you make it to be ?       384   Land, I do not know the.       385 Land, I know the.       386 Matter, what is the ?       431   Not any.       448 No.       449 Off and on, I shall stand.       460   Place, at what ?       497 Prepared, are you?       518   Probable, it is very.       521 Probable, it is not.       522 Pumps are choaked.       523   Ready, I am, for sea, or to sail.       531   Sea, when it goes down.       583 Tide, when it turns.       669   Twine and needles, I am in want of.       684   Wear, there is room to.       710 Wind and weather permitting.       725

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phrases ex Part Second, Sea phrases, to be used between vessels meeting at sea, or at foreign ports in Abraham A. Leggett, his The telegraphic dictionary : being a list of all the phrases, words, names of vessels, countries, ports, harbours, islands, &c., likely to occur in telegraphic communications, either at sea or on shore: arranged according to the plan adopted by the Merchants' exchange company of New York. New York, Printed by Gray and Bunce, 1828. from NYPL copy

Signal numbers shown here following their respective phrases, rather than preceding them as in the source. Unusually (if not uniquely in a signal code), Leggett's phrases frequently commence with their key term, followed by a comma and what is predicated about them, as if in an index.

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  * erasure remnant ex Classes 68 and 69, John Macdonald, A Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Dictionary, Numerically Arranged on a Very Comprehensive Scale. (Whitehall, 1817) * NYPL copy, digitized November 4, 2009 another view, same copy, same (intact) page.

* back cover (levels 0 1.00 220) Richard B. Wynne, A New Code of Telegraphic Signals for Yachts and Pleasure Boats. (Edinburgh, 1828) Bodleian copy, digitized March 29, 2006 *

186       Keep clear off * — 188       Strike your colours. 189       Hoist your colours. 190       Half mast your colours. — 714       Unbend your sails. — 738       When the sea goes down.  

  DVG     Inability. DVH     What is the cause of your inability?

DWB     January

CVR     How many fathoms are you laying in ? CVS     I am laying in fathoms as indicated.

CVT     February.

FNG     It is very lumpy. HD     Pass to Eastward of Lump. HF     Pass to Westward of Lump.

FPT     March.

FPV     Masts, main. KQM     Work to windward. KQN     Work to windward till tide turns.

MB     April.

KF     I have but one Anchor left. KG     I have no Anchor left. KH     I am in want of Anchors.

FQN     May.

FQP     To-morrow. FQR     The day after to-morrow.

DWF     June.

DWG     Can you spare me some junk coir ? DWH     Can you spare me some junk Europe ?

DWC     July.

CLR     Has anything occurred since my departure ? CLS     Have any vessels past out? CLT     Have any vessels past in?

QH     August QJ     By whose authority.

KCW     At high water. KDB     At low water. LDF     At half flood.

JMK     September.

KDM     On the flood. KDN     On the ebb. KDP     When the tide serves.

FSJ     October.

KDQ     At slack water.

FRW     November.

FSB     Number. FSC     What number?

CLQ     December.

KPF     Weigh at high water. KPG     Weigh at low water. KPH     Weigh when sea goes down.

KPJ     Weigh at once.

DBJ     Your flags do not blow clear.  

derived from Alphabetical Code of Signals for the use of government pilot, surveying, light, buoy, and other vessels, telegraph stations, &c. Compiled by C. W. Warden. Second edition. Calcutta, 1868. British Library (bearing stamp of India Office Library), digitized August 19, 2014 *

* (discolored endpaper, rotated 90º, edited in extreme SW) (Charlotte Maria Tucker). Hours with Orientals, by A.L.O.E.. (London, 1881) Bodleian copy, digitized August 29, 2006  

595     Night. 596     Morning.

597     Noon. 598     Midnight.

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243     Where are you bound to? 244     How long are you out?

98     What appearance has the land?

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99     It appears high. 100     It appears low.

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101     Ditto, sandy.

102     Ditto, rocks. 103     Ditto, breakers.

104     Ditto, woody.

108     Have you been on shore?

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126     I have reason to suppose. 127     I am not positive.

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599     Be. 600     Sure.

601     Up. 602     Down.

603     Along. 604     Work.

605     Shore. 606     About.

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621     Are. 622     The.

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645     Any. 646     Give.

647     Take. 648     Fast.

649     Slow. 650     Aberdeen.

* ex A Code of Signals, for the use of Merchant's Ships in general. Compiled at sea, on board the Woodbridge. (London, 1816) British Library copy, digitized September 16, 2014

A strange code, this; impractical, a mere sketch. Its principles of organization unclear, though its pairings and groupings are interesting. Remarkable that it was printed; it may have been intended as a prospectus for a more elaborate code. These were years of speculative code-making; Macdonald's A Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Dictionary, Numerically Arranged on a Very Comprehensive Scale appeared but one year later.