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Bendersky cited how, in Los Angeles County, the fire department introduced a halyard to make putting up longer ladders and less physically strenuous.

They brought wet sleeping bags and clothes up on deck and hung them from the masts, halyards, and rigging.

The only sound was the splashing of waves against the Zenith’s hull and the halyards making music against the mast in the breeze.

Fingers that had bled on the halyards were healed, and black with tar.

Flag Code states: “When flags of States, cities, or localities, or pennants of societies are flown on the same halyard with the flag of the United States, the latter should always be at the peak.”