Last modified: 2020-03-14 by rob raeside
Keywords: vexillological terms |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
On this page:
Flag showing the Allies in the Great War
c1914 (fotw)
Command Flags/Flags of Command of an Admiral,
Vice Admiral and Rear-Admiral,
Croatia (fotw).
Squadron Command Pennants: UK (fotw);
Denmark (fotw);
Flotilla Command Pennant: The Netherlands (fotw)
Notes
a) With regard to 1) - not to be confused with the senior officer afloat
pennant which (certainly in the case NATO and related services, and of countries whose navy
bases its traditions on those of the RN) is only flown whilst alongside or in harbour.
b) A distinction has been drawn between the standard masthead pennant flown
by commissioned warships (occasionally called a pennant of command), and the command
pennants as defined above that are flown subordinate to it.
c)
Further to 1), in the former Austro-Hungarian Navy and in some others, the practice of
hoisting a command pennant with (or without) the hoist being stiffened by a frame was itself indicative of rank -
see ‘frame 2)’.
C-in-C’s Commendation Banner, Canada (fotw)
Navy Unit Commendation Pennant, US (Seaflags)
Golden Jubilee of HM The Queen 2002, UK
(fotw);
17th International
Congress of Vexillology, RSA (fotw); WWII Commemorative Flag, US (fotw);
Centennial Flag 1876, US (fotw)
MTZQ in the 1866 Commercial Code of Signals (fotw)
Flag of Associated Portland Cement Manufactures Ltd, UK (fotw); Pennant of the
Union Barge Line, US (fotw)
Flag of McDonalds, Worldwide (fotw)
Commissioning/Masthead Pennant,
Canada (fotw)
Commodore’s Broad Pennant, Pakistan (fotw)
The Common/Tricolour Pendant, England then UK 1661 – c1850 (fotw)
Notes
1) Display of a common/tricolour pendent
became (or was designed as) a visual indication that the vessel wearing it
was under Admiralty orders and (therefore) not subject to the authority of
any local flag officer –
see ‘distinction of colour’, however;
2) There is evidence to suggest that, when introduced, it acted (or also acted) as a flag of celebration.
Company Colour, No 1 Company, 1st Battalion of The Irish Guards, UK (Graham Bartram); No 2 Company, Governor General’s Foot Guards, Canada (Official Website)
Please note that, while ten was the theoretic maximum, and six or seven the more usual, a regimental stand of nine colours was not unknown for an English regiment of foot in the mid-17th Century.
Flag of BOAC, UK (fotw)
National Arms 1932 - 2000, South Africa (fotw);
National Arms, Tanzania (fotw);
National Arms, the Bahamas (fotw)
Complete Armorial Achievement/Armorial Bearings of the Late Sir Winston Churchill, UK (Churchill Society);
Complete Armorial Achievement of the Dukes of Wellington, UK (Wikipedia)
Flag and Arms of Estévenens, Switzerland (fotw
&
Heraldry-Wiki.com); Flag of Prince Edward Island, Canada (fotw)
Introduction | Table of Contents | Index of Terms | Previous Page | Next Page