Meanings of white ensign in English

The standard-bearer fell, and the white ensign lay in the dust.

How long has that white ensign waved for guests in vain?

It was not Britain's white ensign that they flew, those cruisers.

They both ran up the white ensign at sight of him; but this meant nothing.

One by one ships fell away and replaced the red flag by the white ensign.

At dawn the next morning, with white ensign at half-mast, we crept through Lyttelton Heads.

With such men under the white ensign we leave our island homes in safety behind us.

For every two-decked ship that carries the white ensign there is a grove the less in England.

She seemed to be flying a white flag-itmight have been the white ensign at the distance.

A blue-and- white ensign fluttered up to the main gaff of the schooner; a boat dropped into the water.

She seemed about a hundred and fifty tons, and I saw she belonged to the Squadron from the white ensign.

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The new Confederate flag, which bears a strong resemblance to the British white ensign, was flying from most of the forts.

A dainty white ensign drooped over her stern, and in her bows the sun's light was caught by a heavy brass carronade.

Anyhow their dirty work, whatever it was, had seemingly baffled our immaculate patrol under our white ensign, for that time at any rate.

Just as the fort became visible, a little cloud rose over it, and the white ensign of France was seen fluttering from a lofty flagstaff.