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The Album 2000 [pay00] shows a
2:3 white flag with red border, the national emblem in the middle and four
yellow Suns one above other along the fly. There is no matching flag in
Album 1995 [pie95]. Possibly the
flag is rather new. There is a flag of the Minister
of Navy and Air Trafic in Flaggenbuch
[neu39], but that is more similar to the
C-in-C Navy, and therefore probably not
“continuous”. The border here is shown about 1/10 of
hoist or maybe even a bit more, while the other similarly patterned flags
shown latter in the series have border around 1/8 of hoist. I don’t
know how significant that is.
Željko Heimer, 31 Oct 2002
Flaggenbuch [neu39] shows a
2:3 white flag with red border surrounded with white (i.e. a red
orle), and in the middle a blue anchor and four yellow Suns, one in each
corner. This flag is similar to current
CinC-Navy. Neubecker gives constriction details, anchor dimensions
20×30 units, Suns’ diameter is 12 units, distance of Sun center from each
red border 12 units, red border width 6 units, white border 3 units. The
same dimensions apply for subsequent flags of this pattern.
Željko Heimer, 06 Nov 2002
Natn’l Geo.1917 [gmc17] shows
as #666 a square version of the (state) ensign —
vertical triband of red-white-red with the coat of arms in the middle of the
white stripe.
«Secretary of Navy» is the US equivalent title given to all nations in
the tables of [gmc17]; Minister of Navy or
something similar is more probable (maybe even Minister of
Navy and Air Trafic as in Flaggenbuch
[neu39] some 20 years latter).
Željko Heimer, 06 Nov 2002
The Album 2000 [pay00] shows a
2:3 white flag with red border and in the middle the emblem of the Armed
Forces and four yellow Suns one in each corner. The emblem consists of the
shield of the national arms (i.e. no wreaths) superimposed on golden upright
sword, wings and two anchors. The border here is pictured about 1/8 of hoist,
as is for all subsequent flags of this pattern. This must be relatively recent
office, and therefore the flag too.
Željko Heimer, 02 Nov 2002
Flaggenbuch [neu39] shows a
2:3 white flag with red border surrounded with white (i.e. a red
orle), and in the middle a blue anchor and two yellow Suns, on top and
bottom hoist corners. This rank probably matches today the position of
the Chief of Naval Staff, but in the mean
time he got an aditional Sun…
Željko Heimer, 06 Nov 2002
Flaggenbuch [neu39] shows a
2:3 white flag with red orle as above with three Suns set horizontally
in along the middle. The distance between the sun’s centers is 21
units. I wander if Prefect of a Department
is military or civilian position? If it is civilian,
may be this flag or something similar is still used, but defined in some
other soruces currently not available to us. (Just guessing.)
Željko Heimer, 06 Nov 2002
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