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... BLUE PETER. The signal for sailing when hoisted at the fore-topmast head; this well-known flag has a blue ground with a white ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... next, until nearly ten o'clock at night, we were up to our eyes in the business of completing stores, etcetera, and, generally, in getting the ship ready for sea; and at daybreak on the second morning after I had joined, the fore-topsail was loosed, blue peter run up to the fore royal-mast head, the boats hoisted in and stowed, and the messenger passed, after which all hands went to breakfast. At nine o'clock the captain's gig was sent on shore, and at 11 a.m. the skipper came off; his boat was ...

— The Congo Rovers - A Story of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood

... Cove immediately, so as to cross at Passage before daylight, and take my chance of shipping with some of the outward—bound that are to sail, if the wind holds, the day after to—morrow. There is to be no pressing when blue Peter flies at the fore—and that was hoisted this afternoon, I know, and the foretopsail ...

— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

Words linked to "Blue peter" : nautical signal flag, code flag