The senatorial committee referred questions to Ensign staff members, who did not return calls.

A gust of wind caught the flag on the ensign staff and stretched out its blue colors.

On the ensign staff at her stern she flew the American stars and stripes in the inverted position of distress.

Motor boats without masts should always fly the ensign from an ensign staff at the stern.

Pulpit, pushpit with ensign staff socket, guardrails.

Her stern was high out of water, the red ensign of England flapping impotently on the ensign staff.

The Jolly Roger flag pictured above for Kennedy was flown at his ensign staff, i.e., at the stern of his ship.

He'd anticipated Jackson's protest that it was dangerous to ship the ensign staff while under way because the boom might smash it: that was why at sea theKathleen's ensign flew from the peak of the gaff.

He stood at attention, raised his hat, first to the officer of the watch, then to those manning the gangway; he turned finally towards the stern again, doffed his hat to the white ensign which was fouled around the ensign staff.

At the far side of the harbour, launch engines puttered in the dawn; the engines of the launches ferrying the dockyard mateys out to the merchant ships waiting in the harbour, Uruguayan flags fluttering on their ensign staffs.

The position of honour on a ship is the quarterdeck at the stern of the ship, and thus ensigns are traditionally flown either from an ensign staff at the ship's stern, or from a gaff rigged over the stern.

On 23 September 1779, Capt. Richard Pearson of HMS Serapis, nailed the British ensign to the ensign staff with his own hands before going into battle against Continental Navy ship Bonhomme Richard.

In 1961, a policy of wearing the Canadian Red Ensign from the masthead (in addition to the Canadian Blue Ensign at the jack staff when appropriate, and the White Ensign at the ensign staff) was established.

Ramage saw theTopaze had just hoisted a wheft at the ensign staff - a signal a ship made for her boats to return, and usually a warning that she was about to saiL 'Wheft, sir,' called the midshipmaa 'Boats to return.' '

The national flag had replaced both the White Ensign at the ensign staff and the Canadian Blue Ensign at the jack staff in 1965, and the national flag remained the ensign of Canadian Forces ships after the introduction of the new jack.