[Thinkin' Gal]

Have you found any more pictures with the red flags?

That is the only one I've seen. If you go to Yahoo news photos and search for "queen mary", that's the only one out of the 70 or so pics. It just sort of stands out.

Just now, I typed in red+flag to see if anything else interesting would pop up. The 19 photos that appear, do remind me of the Flash Airline crash. Of course as we all know, the French departed Egypt in a Flash, but perished in the Red* Sea.

*Lit. reeds, as in the sea of reeds i.e. flags.

Strong's concordance:

05488 cuwph {soof}

probably of Egyptian origin; TWOT - 1479; n m
AV - Red 24, flags 3, weeds 1; 28

1) reed, rush, water plant
1a) rushes
1b) sea of rushes
1b1) of Red Sea
1b2) of arms of Red Sea
1b3) of Gulf of Suez
1b4) of sea from straits to Gulf of Akaba

Hmmm, maybe there are a lot of red flags after all. :-/

[StillProud2BeFree]

What about the nautical semaphore flags? Those are used for signalling and communications between ships, or at least they were, and if memory serves me correctly many of the flags are red, so that they stand out. I;m not sure if they are still in use but I believe they are.