- INGLEFIELD CLIP
- An elongated clip (usually of bronze, but also of a tough synthetic material)
with an eye and double-tapered gap in the beak part, making it easy for two to
be clipped together. The clips, spliced to the ends of halyards, are swivelled
to allow the halyards to move freely. With similar Inglefield clips spliced to
the ends of the hoist lines attached to flags, it allows for rapid and easy hoisting,
especially of signal flags – see ‘grommet 1)’
(also ‘Appendix I’,
‘clip and grommet’,
‘halyard’ and ‘splice’).
![[Inglefield clip - left]](../images/v/vxt-d179.gif)
![[Inglefield clip - right]](../images/v/vxt-d181.gif)
Please note that these clips were patented in 1890
by Lieut. (later Admiral) Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield, RN, when serving as a
signals officer in the British Mediterranean Fleet.
- INGRAILED
- An alternative heraldic term to engrailed – see ‘engrailed’.
Flag of Beersel, Belgium (fotw)
- INNER BORDER
- 1) The term that may be used when one border appears within, or next to an
outer border – see ‘outer border’
(also ‘border’ and ‘inset border’.
2) See ‘inset border’.
Naval Jack 1790–1794, France (fotw);
Flag of a Staff Admiral, Croatia (fotw);
Car Flag for State Secretaries, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (fotw)
- INNER CANTON
- In UK usage, that term for an area within the canton equal to one-sixth of the flag’s
total area – see ‘canton 1)’ (also ‘canton
2)’).
- INNER EDGE
- A term that may be used in describing the edge of a hanging flag that is closest to the building
to which the pole is attached, and equivalent to the bottom edge of a conventionally hoisted flag (see also
‘hanging flag’ and ‘outer edge’).
Please note that this term has been introduced by the Editors as no established
alternative could be found.
- INSET (or IN-SET)
- The term used when a charge or charges are set away from the edges of a
flag or the panel they occupy, but not in the centre of that same flag or
panel – for examples see the illustration (with an inset red chevron) below
and ‘inset border’
below (also ‘centred’, ‘double tressure’,
‘off-set towards’ and
‘orle’).
Flag of Josefuv Dul, Czechia (fotw); Flag of
Elmira District Secondary School, Canada (fotw)
- INSET BORDER
- In vexillology the term for an unbroken border that is inset from the edges of a flag – an inner border –
but see ‘orle 1)’ (also
‘border’, ‘double tressure’,
‘inner border’, ‘inset’ above and ‘tressure’).
Sultan’s Standard, Oman (fotw); Flag of the Portland & Asiatic Steamship Co., US (fotw)
- INSIGNE (or INSIGNUM)
- Medieval terms for a flag, banner or ensign (see also
‘insignia’).
Speculative English Flag c1405 (fotw)
- INSIGNIA
- A term for the emblems of rank and distinction sometimes applied in the Middle
Ages to flags of varying sorts, and from which the word ensign probably derives
(see also ‘ensign 5)’ and
‘insigne’).
- INSIGNIA-BANNER
- The term from which ‘ensign-banner’
was possibly derived.
- INSTALLATION FLAGS
- In middle European and some other usage, a term for those flags presented at the
installation of officials with vice-regal authority, and considered symbolic of their
military responsibilities (see also ‘coronation flags’).
![[installation flag]](../images/v/vxt-d1108.gif)
Installation Flag of Ban (Viceroy) Josip Jelacic, Croatia 1848 (Fame)
- INSTITUTIONAL FLAGS/PENNANTS (OFFICIAL)
- Those flags or pennants that have been officially granted and/or formally approved by
the governing body/directing authority of an institution such as a university,
college, sporting club or other similar entity, and are recorded as such in their
official documentation or proprietary website (see also
‘institutional flags (unofficial)’ below
and ‘official flag 1)’).
![[institutional flag]](../images/v/vxt-d3197.gif)
![[institutional flag]](../images/v/vxt-d3265.gif)
Flag of the University of Alberta, Canada (fotw);
Flag of the University of Manitoba, Canada (fotw)
Please note that this category includes only those
flags listed above, and that national, sub-national, personal and corporate flags
as defined separately herein are specifically excluded (see also
‘sports flag 2)’,
'national flag',
'sub-national flag',
'civic flag',
'personal flag' and
'corporate flag').
- INSTITUTIONAL FLAGS/PENNANTS (UNOFFICIAL)
- Those flags or pennants that purport to identify institutions, clubs and other entities,
but which have not been formally approved by the relevant governing body or directing
authority (see ‘institutional flags (official)’ above
and ‘unofficial flag’).
![[institutional flag]](../images/v/vxt-d3198.gif)
![[institutional flag]](../images/v/vxt-d3266.gif)
Flags for Supporters of The Kansas City Chiefs American Football
Team (fotw)
Notes
a) It is a wide-spread practice, especially among North American Universities and sporting clubs worldwide, for faculty members, student bodies and supporters to display commercially manufactured flags which differ from those formally approved, and which must, therefore, be designated as unofficial.
b) Whilst manufacturers may often have permission to use registered trademarks and logos of the organization concerned, this does not give the resulting flags official status
(see also
‘de facto’).
- INSURANCE FLAG (or PENNANT)
- The term for a 19th Century flag (or pennant), now obsolete, usually showing a vessel’s
insurance number and issued by the appropriate marine insurance company, association
for mutual insurance or similar – a number flag.
19th Century Insurance/Number Flags from Rostock and Prerow, Germany (Zeljko Heimer)
Please note that this is not an established term, but
has been introduced by the Editors since no contemporary source describing
such flags could be found.
- INTERLACED (or INTERFRETTED)
- The alternative heraldic terms used when two or more charges are arranged so as to form the appearance
of a united whole, as in the 1606 pattern of union jack or the symbol of the
International Olympic Committee – braced, brased, embraced, fretted or entrelacé or interfretted
(see also ‘charge 1)’,
‘fretty’, ‘union jack 1)’
and ‘union mark’).
Flag of
International Olympic Committee;
The 1606 Pattern of Union Flag, UK;
Flag of TAAF
- INTERMENT FLAG
- See ‘pall flag’.
(adamtglass.com)
- INTERNAL PROPORTIONS
- See ‘proportions 2)’.
- INTERNATIONAL CODE OF SIGNAL FLAGS (or ICS FLAGS)
- An internationally agreed set of flags of simple design to represent letters
of the Roman alphabet and numeral pennants, that can be hoisted singly or in groups
to convey meanings contained in the International Code of Signals (see also
‘blue peter’,
‘call sign hoist’,
‘code pennant’,
‘complement’,
‘diver below flag’,
‘flag of distress’, ‘International Code of Signals’,
‘make her number’,
‘numeral pennant’,
‘preparatory flag’,
‘pilot flag’,
‘quarantine flag’,
‘signal hoist’, ‘substitute’ and
‘signal flag’).
Flags C (Charlie), E (Echo) and B (Bravo) in the International Code of Signals (fotw)
- INTERNATIONAL CODE OF SIGNALS (or ICS)
- A code of single and multiple groups of letters with internationally agreed
meanings that can be transmitted by means of signal flags, radio or signal lanterns
(see also ‘complement’,
‘International Code of Signal Flags’,
‘numeral pennant’,
and ‘signal flag’).
Notes
a) The International Code of Signals was first
introduced (as the Commercial Code of Signals) in 1857, and whilst it has gone through
several revisions since that date, was also a further development of the code invented by
Captain Frederick Marryat RN, first published in 1817 (Marryat’s Code) – see
‘commercial code of signals’,
‘distinction pennant’
and ‘Marryat's code’.
b)
The ICS is currently published by the International Maritime Organization, and that
all references to the code given in this Dictionary are taken from the 2005 Edition.
- INTERNATIONAL COLOUR (or COLOR) CODE
- That code prescribed by the
Federation Internationale des Associations Vexillogiques
(FIAV) for use by the international vexillogical community, which lists the colours
employed on flags – see note below.
FAIV Code as used on FOTW and elsewhere (Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg)
Please note that R = red, Y = yellow, V = green (from vert/verde etc, in the Romance languages), B = blue, O = orange, P = purple, G = grey, N = black (from noir/negro), W = white, Au = gold and Ag = silver. Lighter shades are indicated by a minus sign thus light blue, for example, becomes B-, and darker by a plus sign thus dark blue becomes B+ (with B++ being a very dark blue).
- INTERNATIONAL FLAG(S)
- 1) The generic term for any flag that is recognized as having international
significance , for more precise definitions however, see 2) below (also
‘Geneva Convention flag’,
‘safe conduct flag’, and
‘supra-national flag’).
- 2) The flag of an organization which represents the interests of a number
of different countries, as in for example, that of the Organization of American
States, the Association of South East Asian Nations or of OPEC, or that represents
an international non-governmental organization such as the International Olympic
Committee (see also ‘sports flag 3)’.
Flags FOTW, the Organization of American States
and the
Caribbean Community (fotw)
