Pendant (or pennant) numbers have been used by individual ships of
the Royal Navy for purposes of identification for more than 100
years. They were also used in all the navies of the British Empire
so that ships could be easily transferred from one navy to another
without changing her number. They offer the simplest and clearest
way to identify a ship, but until now there has been little in the
way of consistent and accurate information, and certainly no single
location where you can look up or research complete pendant
numbers. The book is designed as an easy-to-use reference work and
as such is, in the main, composed of alpha-numeric listings to
enable the user to find and identify warships by reference to ship
name and to identify specific pendant numbers assigned to that
name; or by pendant number to identify specific vessels assigned
that number at various times. It begins with an introduction and a
brief history of visual signalling used by the Royal Navy before
industrialisation, and explains how the large numbers of identical
ships being built brought about the need to identify specific ships
within fleets to aid signalling and tactical deployment. There
follow chapters covering the pendant numbers of the surface fleet
and submarines (which stopped using them once boats began to spend
so little time on the surface), and then pedant numbers by ship
name. A significant chapter lists the pendant numbers assigned to
the British Pacific Fleet during the Pacific campaign of WWII
together with an explanation of why numbers were assigned, and an
examination of missing 'A' series pendants known to have been
carried by some vessels during the conflict. The BPF numbers have
only recently come to light and there is still much that is not
known but this section provides the most comprehensive study of
available data at this time. There is also an appendix covering
deck letters assigned to aviation capable ships. This is a
genuinely new and significant reference book and is destined to
become a major new aid for Royal Navy warship and auxiliary
identification.
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