44ft Motor Lifeboats
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See if you can understand the message which is being sent here, by using the semaphore alphabet shown below.

Good Luck!
Semaphore flag are usually red and yellow for signalling between ships at sea and blue and white for signalling to and from land

When you see the “Numerical” flag it means that everything after is a number. When the letter J (Alphabetic) flag is shown in the number, it means that the number is finished and the next sequence is alphabetic.
International Maritime Signal Flags
Distress Flags
N + C
=
I am in distress
More details on the International Maritime Signal Flags can be found here.
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