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blue peter

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 274 words | Copyright

blue peter, the signal that a ship is about to sail and that all persons concerned should report on board. It is a rectangular flag with a blue ground and a white rectangle in the centre. It also represents the letter ‘P’ in the International Code of Signals.

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