"Dave Kearton" wrote:

"Mitchell Holman" wrote:

Why does this boat have 3 US flags hanging from the same mast?

Souvenirs? As in "This flag was flown aboard the
USS Cape St. George when she launched her
Tomahawk Land-Attack Missiles during Operation
Iraqi Freedom."

This picture is on

http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/1171/040171.htm

and the caption reads:

"The Mediterranean Sea (Mar. 23, 2003) -- A Tomahawk Land
Attack Missile (TLAM) launches from the guided missile cruiser
USS Cape St. George (CG 71). The Cape St. George is deployed
in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the multi-national coalition
effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo
by Intelligence Specialist 1st Kenneth Moll.(030323-N-6946M-002)"

--Bill Thompson