The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Wig-Wag

Naval

A system of signaling all the letters of the alphabet by waving a flag in the daytime and a lantern at night. By these means messages may be communicated from ship to ship or between a ship and the shore.

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