answering pendant

"And yes, all the ships have hoisted what I suppose is the answering pendant."

"When you're near a senior officer's ship,always keep an answering pendant bent on the halyard ready.

The signals were correct and Ramage ordered the French answering pendant to be hoisted.

"The answering pendant wasn't bent on the halyard, sir," Orsini admitted lamely.

As soon as he had seen the answering pendant run up, Orsini took the slate on which Aitken had written the numbers,snatched up Home Popham's code book, and started writing in the words above the numbers, reading them out as he did so.