When a foreign battleship enters a fortified port the visiting fleet, or rather, its flagship, fires a national salute of twenty-one guns.

Ere all the guns had been fired from the flagship, the third classmen received the rising signal; the class marched out and was dismissed.

Later in the day that English officer and one or two of his staff officers would return the call by coming out to the flagship.

"Young gentlemen," he inquired, "h'I suppose, h'of course, you've 'ad a look h'at the anchor h'of Sir Francis Drake's flagship, the time 'e went h'out h'and sank the great Spanish h'Armada?" "Why, no, my friend," replied Dave, looking at the man with interest.

Signal men broke out the news to the flagship.

The flagship had crowded on extra steam, and was fast coming over the seas.

Yet the hardest blow of all came when, at the end of an hour and a quarter, the flagship signaled the recall of the small boats.

Then the flagship flew the signal for resuming the voyage.

As a result of more signals flown from the flagship, all unnecessary duties of midshipmen for the day were ordered suspended.

"I just caught sight of the 'recall of boats' flying from the flagship!"

Her damage repaired, the Queen Mary was now steaming to the open waters of the North Sea, where she would again take up patrol duty with the other vessels that comprised the British North Sea fleet, under command of Vice-Admiral Beatty, whose flagship, the Lion, had taken up the additional burden of patrolling the Queen Mary's territory while the latter was being overhauled.

Admiral Sims, of the American Navy, King George and the Prince of Wales, were aboard the Queen Elizabeth, the flagship of Admiral Beatty, commanding the Grand Fleet.

Swallows had built their nests about her tent and on the flagship on which she sailed, and milk and blood together had dripped from beeswax.

" A fortnight later, at daylight, a signal from the flagship in harbour was made for us to unmoor; our orders had come to cruise in the Bay of Biscay.

Harry led the officer into his cabin, and rapidly explained to him the circumstances which had taken place; ten minutes later, entering a boat, he rowed off to the flagship.

On The Fleet Flagship XXXI.

But Boscawen caught him off Cape Lagos, and gave him a decisive defeat, capturing five sail of the line, and among them the flagship L'Océan (80).

This colloquy referred to a striking maneuver of the flagship Brooklyn early in the engagement at Santiago, which has been commented on before.

Olympia (Flagship).

The Spanish had but one chance to cripple Dewey, and that was by closing with him, but they never seem, except in the case of the flagship, to have contemplated taking the offensive.

But two months ago the flagship of Admiral Dewey steamed slowly into the battle line at Manila.

As she passed the British flagship Immortalite its band rang out the inspiring air 'S

In the dock at Hongkong was Admiral Dewey's flagship Olympia, and while she had the grass scratched from her bottom, the gallant crew were having a holiday with the zest that rewards those who for four months were steadily on shipboard with arduous cares and labors.

The pilot of the flagship appointed by the King was Giovanni Vespucci, a Florentine, nephew of Amerigo Vespucci, who had inherited his uncle's great ability in the art of navigation and taking reckonings.

This young man has, in fact, been sent by the King as pilot to the flagship and commissioned to take the astronomical observations.