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These signal flags are from a flag plate of house flags. They are all 1:2 versions of the ICS flags, except the C-G range, that is composed of triangular flags (also in proportions 1:2, with the following characteristics:
C - White with a red disc shifted to the hoist.
D - Blue with a white disc shifted to the hoist.
E - A red-white-blue vertical tricolour.
F - Red with a white cross throughout shifted to the hoist.
G - A yellow-blue vertical bicolour, with the dividing line shifted to
hoist.
Jorge Candeias, 15 January 2005
They are shown here, on a page from the German 1902 Brockhaus encyclopedia (pdf file):
These were still around in 1922, see
"Standard
Seamanship for the Merchant Service, Riesenberg, Felix, C.E.D., Van
Nostrand Company, 1922, "International Code Flags" p559. Changes
include "F" and "L"."
Jan Mertens, 16 January 2005
F - Older version. Red with a white dot.
L - Quartered blue and yellow
Answering pennant - like the current flag but sharp-tipped
Dominique Cureau, 5 May 2005