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 StoneMtnMinis  | 09 Apr 2019 1:02 p.m. PST |
pass communications or signals? It appears they lacked the necessary rigging to run-up signal flags, so how did Captains communicate with each other or the flotilla Commander? Dave |
| JimDuncanUK | 09 Apr 2019 1:21 p.m. PST |
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| rmaker | 09 Apr 2019 4:08 p.m. PST |
Even the Monitor had a signal mast. |
| capncarp | 06 May 2019 7:24 p.m. PST |
The Brown-water Eads' et al. gunboats had wires bracing their stacks. These could be used to display signal flags. And they had a jackstaff at the stern for the National flag. And another staff at the front of the casemate with what seems to be the ship's identifying pennant on it. American Heritage's "Ironclads of the Civil War" had a color illustration page of the pennants of the Western Mississippi Flotilla ships, IIRC. |
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