quarantine flag

English

Noun

quarantine flag (plural quarantine flags)

1. (nautical) A black and yellow flag (signal flag LIMA) formerly hoisted by a ship to show that it has contagious or infectious disease aboard, or by a ship that has been quarantined. This use was listed in Brown’s 1916 code of signals, but this use is no longer listed in contemporary editions of the International Code of Signals.

Translations

yellow flag

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 檢疫旗／检疫旗 (jiǎnyìqí)

• Cornish: baner enysekter m
• Finnish: karanteenilippu
• French: drapeau jaune (fr) m
• Japanese: 検疫信号 (ken'eki shingō), 検疫旗 (ken'ekiki)
• Russian: жёлтый флаг m (žóltyj flag), каранти́нный флаг m (karantínnyj flag)

References

• Excerpt from Brown's Signalling (1916), showing earlier versions of ICS flags.