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Defence minister Ben Wallace said he had ordered the warships HMS Montrose and HMS Defender to prepare to return to escort duties for all ships sailing under a British merchant flag.

The merchant flag is the same without the shield and crown.

A representation of the Italian merchant flag will be found on Plate V. No. 5.

An hour went by, another, and the deceptive British merchant flag still fluttered from the rigging of the Noank.

Nearer and nearer, before the somewhat freshening breeze, came the strange schooner, with the merchant flag of Great Britain fluttering out to declare how peaceable and friendly was her character.