Trafalgar Signal Flags — 21 October 1805
Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. Signal flags on a ship of the line. Not a portrait.
Overview
The flags are already on England Expects Signal — Trafalgar 1805. At about 11:45 am on 21 October 1805 Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview ordered a flag hoist from HMS Victory — Overview.1
The Flags
This note covers those flags as objects only. Code-book mechanics, Popham’s Vocabulary, Howe’s book, and a named hoisting officer stay on the signal note’s queue line.
The Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Overview already records the wording: England expects that every man will do his duty. The hoist went up before the two British columns cut the line around noon.2
Sources
- @white2005nelson — p. 312
- @knight2005pursuit
- @adkin2005trafalgar
- England Expects Signal — Trafalgar 1805
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Footnotes
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About 11:45 am; 21 October 1805; hoist from Victory: England Expects Signal — Trafalgar 1805. ↩
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Wording on the battle note; hoist before noon: same signal note. Do not invent a code-book, Popham, or a named hoisting officer. Do not recopy a different wording. ↩