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Flaggenbuch [gfb39] shows under
'Kuba' the following flags:
- Standard of the State President. (see: 'Former Presidential flag').
- National flag, also used as
war and civil ensign.
- Naval Jack, similar to jack currently in
use.
- Flag of the 4 September 1939.
- Ensign of the State Secretary for War and Navy. Similar to the
flag attributed to 'Secretary of Navy',
but without star. Considering a flag height of 24, the height of
the anchor is 12, the outer blue border has a width of 2 and the
white inner border a width of 1.
- Ensign of the Chief of Naval Staff. Similar to the preceding
one but forked, so that the main field (excluding the forked
part) is a square, and without the white inner border.
- Ensign of the Chief of a Naval
District. Similar to the ensign currently in use.
- The five triangular ensigns currently in use, with the same
allocations.
- Masthead pennant, similar to the one currently in use.
- Ensign of the Observation and Guidance Vessels.
- Ensign for Doctor on Duty.
- Quarantine flag, slightly different from Quarantine
Flag sent by Željko: the anchor and cross are blue, the
star white, and theemblem is skewed to the fly.
- Pilot Flag: white P on a black field.
Ivan Sache, 10 June 2001
(2:3)
image by Željko Heimer, 3 June 2001
White over blue with a red first quarter containing a white
star. Proportions are 2:3. The flag was originally used during an
unsuccessful rebellion against Spanish rule in 1868-78.
Source: Pedersen, 1971 [ped71].
Pascal Vagnat, 2 May 1996
From Album 2000 [pay00] - Jack
(2:3) - White over blue bicolour with red centon with white star
in the center. Construction details provided by the figure
explain how the flag is both horizontally and vertically divided
in halves. The star apears of the same size as the one emploed on
the national flag (i.e. in circle of diameter 3/10 hoist).
Željko Heimer, 3 June 2001
Neubecker was writing nearly 70 years ago, however this is
just to remind you that (despite its age) the 1939 Flaggenbuch
was correct (according to official statistics) regarding the size
of the star on the National Flag of Cuba and the Album 2000
wrong, and that there seems to be a similar disparity (but in
reverse) on the Naval Jack.
As in the Album there are no figures given for the star in the
Flaggenbuch, but it is illustrated at 1/4 of flag width as
opposed to the 3/10 mentioned above.
Christopher Southworth, 19 July 2009
See also: Cuba - Historical Flags - Céspedes Flag (1868)
image by Željko Heimer, 3 June 2001
From Album 2000 [pay00] -
Masthead pennant - Blue over white long pennant (ratio shown
about 1:17.5) with red equilateral trangle with white star at
hoist.
Željko Heimer, 3 June 2001
image by Ivan Sache, 10 June 2001
Ensign of the observation and guidance vessels. A white
swallow-tailed ensign with three black discs in triangle (2 + 1)
Note: Ensign might be obsolete.
Source: Flaggenbuch [gfb39].
Ivan Sache , 5 May 2000
image by Željko Heimer, 6 June 2001
National Geographic, 1917 [geo17],
show only four Cuban flags (as figures 469-473):
No. 469 is Cuba Quarantine.
Is it obsolete? any further info on this curious flag?
Željko Heimer, 6 June 2001
image by Ivan Sache, 10 June 2001
Flaggenbuch [gfb39] show Pilot
flag: white P on a black field.
Ivan Sache, 10 June 2001
Here is a photo taken
on 7 June at Havana Port. The flag is used in the port
by some authorities. It is hoisted on ships and in certain
office in Customs biuldings.
Maikel Arista-Salado. 8 June 2006
image by Ivan Sache , 5 May 2000
Flag of a doctor on duty: A black "red cross" on a
white field.
Note: Flag might be obsolete.
Source: Flaggenbuch [gfb39].
Ivan Sache , 5 May 2000
