The 1931 International Code of Signals American Edition, Volume I: For Visual and Sound Signaling (H. O. No. 87)

vi, 362 pp. Front endpaper illustrated with international flags and pennants. Includes: Preface; International Code Flags and Pennants; Signaling Instructions: Definitions; Methods of Signaling: Flag Signaling; Flashing Light, Sound Signaling--Morse; Semaphore; General Instructions: Drafting Messages; Originator and Addressee of Messages; Signal Letters; Table Showing International Allocation of Initial Letters of Signal Letters, Call Signs, and Aircraft Markings; Use of Signal Letters; How to Express Ships' Names; How to Express Numbers; How to Signal Numbers; How to Express Time; How to Signal Time; How to Express Courses and Bearings; How to Signal Courses and Bearings; How to Express Positions; How to Signal Positions; Time of Origin; Communication by Local Signal Codes; Signaling by Flags: How to Call; How to Answer Signals; How to Complete a Signal; How to Act When Signals Are Not Understood; Use of Substitutes (Repeaters); How to Spell; Communication by Flags Between Men-of-War and Merchant Vessels; Morse Signaling: International Morse Code; Procedure Signals and Signs--Morse; Use of Procedure Signals and Signs; Signaling by Flashing Light: Component Parts of a Message; How to Signal; Omitting the Call and Identity; Examples of Signaling by Flashing Light; Signaling by Sound: How to Signal; Signaling by Semaphore: How Messages are to be Made and Read; Errors; The Semaphore Alphabet; How to End a Message; Signal Code: Explanation and Instructions for Use: The Use of Verbs; Arrangement and Explanation of Printing; Arrangement; Amplifying Phrases; Examples of Coding; Single-Letter Signals Arranged in Alphabetical Order; Two-Letter Signals Arranged in Alphabetical Order; Points of the Compass; Relative Bearings; Standard Times; Model Verb; Punctuation and Amplifying Phrases; General Vocabulary--Words, Phrases, and Sentences Expressed by 1, 2, and 3 Letter Signals; Decode; Geographical Section (4-Letter Signals); Appendix A: Ship and Aircraft Distress Signals; Appendix B: Pilot Signals; Appendix C: Quarantine Signals; Appendix D: Towing Signals; Appendix E: Storm-warning Display Stations of the United States; Small-craft, Storm, Wind-direction, and Hurricane Warnings; United States Naval Communication Service: Time Signals; United States Naval Direction Finder Stations; Hydrographic and Meteorological Information; Hydrographic Office Publications; Weather Codes; Instructions to Mariners in Case of Shipwreck; Coast Guard Districts and Stations in the United States; Life-saving Organization on the Coast of the United Kingdom: Information and Instruction for the Guidance of Masters and Seamen.