Half-staff refers to a flag that is raised halfway, between the bottom and top of a flagpole. On ships and naval stations ashore, flags are flown from masts.

S.C. flags will be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sundown on Thursday, March 6. McMaster ordered that flags be flown at half-staff atop the state Capitol and also requested that the flags over ...

Chief of Naval Operations Adm ... that would prohibit the Confederate battle flag from all public spaces and work areas aboard Navy installations, ships, aircraft and submarines,” spokesman ...

Also, he watched by video link similar procedures on the small missile ship Naro-Fominsk and the sea-going minesweeper Lev Chernavin. The naval flag raising ceremony heralds their incorporation ...