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Originally Posted by mike1946
Flying a flag upside down is a sign of distress ...very few foreign navies could figure out how to fly the British Union Jack ...there is a right and a wrong way ...so if a British ship got captured the canny sailors used to fly the flag upside down to tell other British ships they were under enemy control.
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I knew about upside down flag but I never knew why. Thank you for that information, I love learning new things. I’m trying to picture in my mind the upside down British flag but I can’t. Gonna google the Union Jack upside down now. Again, thanks for the cool history lesson.