quarantine flag

quarantine flag

English

Noun

quarantine flag (plural quarantine flags)

1. (nautical) A black and yellow flag (signal flag LIMA) formerly hoisted by a ship to show that it has contagious or infectious disease aboard, or by a ship that has been quarantined. This use was listed in Brown’s 1916 code of signals[1], but this use is no longer listed in contemporary editions of the International Code of Signals.

Translations

yellow flag

Chinese: Mandarin: 檢疫旗／检疫旗 (jiǎnyìqí) Cornish: baner enysekter m Finnish: karanteenilippu French: drapeau jaune (fr) m Japanese: 検疫信号 (ken'eki shingō), 検疫旗 (ken'ekiki) Russian: жёлтый флаг m (žóltyj flag), каранти́нный флаг m (karantínnyj flag)

References

1. https://earlyradiohistory.us/1916sig.htm

• Excerpt from Brown's Signalling (1916), showing earlier versions of ICS flags.