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Blue peter   /blu pˈitər/   Listen
Blue peter

noun
1.
A blue flag with a white square in the center indicates that the vessel is ready to sail.





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"Blue peter" Quotes from Famous Books



... hands employed in refitting the ship, aided by extra carpenters and riggers, that Jack was unable to obtain even an hour's leave on shore. Immediately the ship was ready for sea, Blue Peter was hoisted, the anchor was run up to the bows, and under all sail she stood ...
— John Deane of Nottingham - Historic Adventures by Land and Sea • W.H.G. Kingston
... commotion. The great whaling fleet that every year sailed from this place for the Greenland fisheries was busily preparing for sea. The sun was shining over the brown hills of Orphir, and casting a golden sheen over the calm bay. Out beyond the Holms the whaling ships lay at anchor, the Blue Peter flying at each forepeak, and between them and the town many boats were passing ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton
... BLUE PETER. The signal for sailing when hoisted at the fore-topmast head; this well-known flag has a blue ground with a white ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... ended. The Andromeda hauled down the Blue Peter for her long run of over 6,000 miles to Monte Video, and Hozier had routine work in plenty to occupy his mind during the first twenty-four hours at sea without perplexing it with memories of a pretty face. Soon after ...
— The Stowaway Girl • Louis Tracy
... Cove immediately, so as to cross at Passage before daylight, and take my chance of shipping with some of the outward—bound that are to sail, if the wind holds, the day after to—morrow. There is to be no pressing when blue Peter flies at the fore—and that was hoisted this afternoon, I know, and the foretopsail ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott


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