I hope all the ‘old salts’ here will hoist all that they feel appropriate today.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/36/128
No saucy comments from landlubbers! 
being a seaman is hard work. not adequately paid, unsocial and bad for the health.
there is just one compensation:
lifelong memories and very few listeners, who really can judge, if a story is true, exaggerated or an outright lie…
I wonder if anyone in the neighborhood would be cranky if I ran up my Royal Navy flag…
Tangentally related: Friend of mine’s son graduated from Maine Maritime last year, and is currently serving as crew on the Charles W Morgan.
Bob McCown said:
I wonder if anyone in the neighborhood would be cranky if I ran up my Royal Navy flag…
Tangentally related: Friend of mine’s son graduated from Maine Maritime last year, and is currently serving as crew on the Charles W Morgan.
Make it the Battle Ensign!
Never thought I would be on a ship flying three Battle Ensigns…
but that hiatus Suez cropped up…
This will always be “My Ship,” USS MCCLUSKY (FFG-41) call sign November Mike Delta Kilo, known in some parts as Numb Dick. I helped put her in Commission in December, 1983, and will be present when she is Decommissioned in 2015. She has served long and proud, and from the photos that I’ve seen of her, taken last week, she looks as good as she did in December of 1983.
Here’s mine. “EAGLE” 2 commissions., 1951/52 and 1955/56. Not as big as the latest carriers.
1st commission had the straight deck.