The signal flag Lima
“I have contagious disease onboard”. Not influenza, but yellow fever, cholera, plague, Ebola or something as nasty.
Almost as bad are signal flags Alfa – Juliet
“I have had a nuclear accident onboard”
In either case, the vessel is a floating biohazard or a radiological hazard. Stay away as clear as you can.
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