Repro ID: PW8496
Title: HMS Hazard flying yellow quarantine flag, by Oswald Walter Brierly.
Description: A warship flying the quarantine flag, which denoted the presence of an infectious disease among the crew. The flag showed that the crew could not go ashore until they had been passed by a doctor. Quarantine originally lasted 40 days.
Creator: Sir Oswald Walter Brierly (1817-1894)
Date: 20 Sep 1841
Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London
