A much less extensive type of flagging, known as point to point, in which usually only one signal lantern is deployed by a lookout, will be used in fewer circumstances now, Mr. Reuter said.
Among some of the artifacts recovered from the sunken vessel was a red signal lantern, possibly the one used to send a distress signal to the Rhode Island and the last thing to be seen before Monitor sank in 1862 – it was the first object recovered from the site in 1977.
However, the signal lanterns from Paul Revere's Ride for one if by land and two if by sea have been replaced by thousands and thousands of Christmas lights decorating the floats and boats in parades for the next few weekends throughout the world.
Behind Khan and her band stands a twinkly sky backdrop, some signalling lanterns and a little ramp that looks, from up in the circle, like a wedge of blackened gouda that Khan occasionally clambers on to to peer over an adoring crowd.
In that image, a clandestine organization of abolitionists — many of them Quaker or otherwise motivated by religious ideals — used covert methods (tunnels, trapdoors, concealed passageways) and secret signals (lanterns set in windows, quilts hung on laundry lines) to help convey enslaved African-Americans to freedom.
And as the vicar read "Prayer in Time of War," I thought about the patriots watching through that long April night knowing an attack was coming, but not from where, waiting for a signal, a lantern in the dark, something to tell them what to do.
Miss Eppinette is not a rear-end brakeman - she does no signalling with lantern, and never goves the engineer the go-ahead.
In the morning, church bells - starting in Pontymoile basin in Torfaen - were rung along the canal route to Brecon, signalling a lantern procession to the canal's basin.
Running a big diesel in the middle of the night, with three switchmen on the ground, and shunting a hundred boxcars out of one rail into another, as well as all manner of other switching maneuvers, each communication performed soundlessly, using hand signals or lanterns, between myself and figures I mostly couldn't see — all of that didn't seem very hard.
It has a grant from the U.K. Space Agency to have three small satellites made dedicated to broadcasting the Lantern signal.
The red of the lantern (the signal that summons the wives to the marital bed) is ubiquitous.
