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image by Zoltan Horvath, 12 June 2024
The ensign is used by the Coast Guard and probably by the newly remobilized
Navy. The white panel is bigger than on national flag.
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Zoltan Horvath, 12 June 2024
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 October 2007
It is a blue over red horizontal bicolour with a white
rectangle in the centre, containing the coat of arms. It is
denoted as a war-flag. The flag is depicted in the ALBUM on p.16,
image no.314. According to Flaggenbuch its ratio is
17:27(measured by myself).
The flag must have been used in the 1930s and perhaps also in the
1920s.
Within the coat of arms one can clearly recognize a coastal line
behind the sea and the sunk ships on both sides having two masts
with white flags.
Sources: Flaggenbuch; edited by HQ of German navy;
Berlin 1939, reprinted Zwickau 1992; p.78 Welt, Cigarette ALBUM
"Die Welt in Bildern Album 7 : Flaggen der aussereurpäische
Staaten", edited between 1928 and 1932 according to the
international Schneider, boundaries in the included map of the
world.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 October 2007
image by Miles Li, 12 August 2008
Here is the flag or "ensign" of the Haitian Coast
Guard.
The legend reads: "République d'Haïti" and
"Toujours Pręts" (which, like the USCG motto
"Semper Paratus", means "always ready").
Source: Flags of the World (Gresham and Carr, 1961)
Miles Li, 12 August 2008
I suppose that like the US Coast Guard
"ensign", the flag is actually not used as a
national ensign on ships, but rather as an additional flag
hoisted on the ship 8and also used on land on their premises and
in offices).
Is this still used today?
Željko Heimer, 12 August 2008
It seems that it is not in use I find a photo
in which a flag is
painted on the wall of Haitian Coast Guard Station
Port-au-Prince. I don't know it it is the national flag or the
national colors with the emblem of the "Garda Cote".
There is a flag on the boats but I think that it is the Naval Ensign.
Dov Gutterman, 12 August 2008
This flag is illustrated by French Navy Books, too, but I haven’t found any
pictorial evidence of real use of this ensign.
Zoltan Horvath, 12
June 2024
image by Paige Herring, 22 June 1998
Source: H. Gresham Carr, Flags of the World (1961)
As there is no true army in Haiti anymore, there may be no
longer be a jack.
Armand Noel du Payrat, 22 June 1998
I could not find any pictures of the jack or the masthead pennant on the
Internet. Possibly, they are used by newly remobilized Navy, but confirmation is
required.
Zoltan Horvath, 12 June 2024
image by eljko Heimer, 30 October 2001
Pavillons Nationaux et Marques Distinctives [pay00] shows the masthead pennant
as a 1:11 horizontally divided blue-read triangle.
Ivan Sache, 5 January 2001
According to Album 2000 [pay00]
- Masthead Pennant. Blue over
red long triangular pennant, in Album shown in ratio
1:11.5~, but this is probably not prescribed.
eljko Heimer, 30 October 2001
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 October 2007
It is a plain blue flag with a white rectangle in its centre.
The flag is depicted in the ALBUM on p.16, image no.316.
Flaggenbuch implicitely denies the existence of a special pilot
flag, saying on p.78, that the pilot used the trade flag, a
simple blue over red horizontal bicolour. If a special pilot flag
had existed, it must have been used before 1939.
Sources: Flaggenbuch; edited by HQ of German navy; Berlin 1939,
reprinted Zwickau 1992; p.78 Cigarette ALBUM "Die Welt in
Bildern Album 7 : Flaggen der Welt, aussereurpäische
Staaten", edited between 1928 and 1932 according to the
international boundaries in the included map of the world.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 October 2007