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All RN warships have a commissioning pennant at top of main mast. Narrow white pennant with elongated red +

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I have, of course, read about this a lot in all the Hornblower type novels, but is it still used today? I just surfed around some on the shipsspotting website and found quite a few pics of RN warships, some under way, some in harbour but there are no pennants! There is nothing up the mast at all (in way of flags or pennants).

For example:



Really nothing (the pics are available in highres so I zoomed in...)



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