These are used on ceremonial occasions for 'dressing ship', i.e. for hoisting flags bent at close intervals on lines which, in a two-masted ship, run from the stem to the fore-masthead, thence to the main-masthead and thence to the stern.
Ezi zisetyenziswa kumatheko athatyathwayo 'ukulungiselela inqanawa' umzekelo ukunyusa iiflegi zigobe kufutshane nezithuba zentambo apho, kwiinqanwa ezimbini ezibaleka ukusuka kwingcambu ukuya kumphambili weflegi ende ukusukela aphokuye kumva wenqanawa.