Pennant
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Pennant may refer to:
Flag or banner
- Pennon (or pennant), a narrow, tapering flag commonly flown by ships at sea:
- Pennant (commissioning), the traditional sign of a warship, flown from its masthead while the ship is in commission
- Broad pennant, flown from the masthead of a Royal Navy ship to indicate the presence of a commodore on board
- Pennant (church), flown by navies during services on board ships
- Pennant number, a number used to identify ships by the modern Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth
- Pennant (sports), a commemorative flag displayed or flown by a league-winning team
- Pennant race, prior to divisional playoffs within each league, the race to clinch the division title in a regular baseball season
- Pennant, a reference to the pennant-shaped "No Passing Zone" prohibitory traffic sign found in the United States
- Pennant, a reference to Flag and pennant patterns in technical analysis of a stock market chart
Rope or wire rope
- Pennant, a length of rope attached to a masthead, the end of a yardarm, etc., and having a block or thimble secured to its free end
- Maintenance pennant, a wire rope sling used to "hang-off" a lifeboat from the davit in order to perform maintenance on the lifeboat (not to be confused with "pendant")[1]
- Safety pennant, a synthetic sling used to secure a lifeboat to the davit falls as a fall protection device (FPD)
Other
- Pennant, the common name of the dragonfly genus Celithemis
- The Pennant, a newspaper in Penola, South Australia first published in 1946
- Pendant Productions, an online audio drama podcast company founded in 2004
- Vympel, Russian for "Pennant", a Spetznas unit specialised in infiltration and assassination
- Pennant Measures, a stratigraphic division of the South Wales Coal Measures and including the Pennant Sandstone
Places
- Pennant, Ceredigion, Wales
- Pennant, Powys, Wales
- Pennant, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Pennant Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Pennant Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Surnames
- Jermaine Pennant, an English Football player, currently playing for Tampines Rovers
- Thomas Pennant, a Welsh naturalist and antiquary
References
- ↑ "Lifeboat guidelines" (PDF). www.imo.org.
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