jackstaff , także: jack staff

It may be flown from the jackstaff of vessels without masts.

He stood on the centerline of the bridge, carefully lining his jackstaff up with the quay.

Each flew a single ensign from the jackstaff - a solid black flag.

He sat on the deck, leaning against the jackstaff, and gave himself up to thorny analysis of recent scenes.

The first shot struck the jackstaff and was followed by a volley from an estimated 200 rifles.

Conventionally, courtesy flags are flown from the jackstaff at the bow.

The jackstaff stood bare, the United States ensign having rotted away long ago.

When at anchor or alongside, it is flown from the jackstaff at the bow of the ship.

A Sierra flag hung from die jackstaff.

The white banner with the blue stripe flutters upon a short jackstaff aft of the pilot house.

Giordino walked over to the railing beside the corroded shaft of the jackstaff and stared at the water below.

"I can just remember when it was the Park of Summer," she tells the redbird that chirps from the empty jackstaff.

It's also flown on the jackstaff of the fleet of Philippine Navy.

The Austran ensign drooped from the jackstaff in the heavy still air that blanketed the harbor.

This was formerly flown from the mainmast but is now usually flown from the jackstaff.

Jacks are additional national flags flown by warships (and certain other ships) on a jackstaff at the bow of the ship.

The Llyse kept abreast of the trader until a blue-edged white banner floated on the aft jackstaff.

As I went by I see it was a lantern hanging on the jackstaff of a double-hull ferryboat.

Obviously mariners who understand this signal code also understand that the saltire is displayed on the jackstaff and not as a signal.

The steel-hulled vessel with the nameplate Shrezsan flew the flag of Hamor from a jackstaff above the stern.

Her later 11-star naval jack would have also flown atop the ironclad's jackstaff, matching the circular star arrangement of 'Virginia's 11-star battle ensign.

The naval jack of the Philippines is a maritime flag representing Philippine nationality flown on the jackstaff in the bow of its vessels.

The warship, built on the Clyde for the South Africans in the days before apartheid isolation, flew the United Nations flag from its jackstaff.

Union Jack: properly, this is for the flag's naval use only (when flown from a jackstaff) and in all other contexts it should be the Union flag.

Would you bear me out in that, relatively speaking, with her jackstaff jerking at her pennyladders, why not, and sizing a fair sail, knowest thout the kind?