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Pointe St-Gildas, semaphore mast

With just three arms it was possible to signal 300 different messages, not like human semaphores which used the alphabet but with numbers. Each number referred to a book of messages, eg No 99= 'Your ship is sinking!'

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Uploaded on September 18, 2011
Taken on September 10, 2011