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Flag of Leuzigen, Switzerland (fotw);
Flag of Northeim County (Germany);
Flag of Laranjeiro, Portugal (fotw)
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);
WWII Commemorative Flag, US (fotw);
IAF 60th Anniversary Flag (fotw)
TZQ in the 1866 Commercial Code of Signals (fotw)
House Flag of Allantone Supplies Ltd., UK (fotw);
Flag of the Arctic Steam Fishing Co. Ltd., UK (fotw);
Commercial Flag/Civil Ensign, Spain 1785-1927 (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
a) 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 whether of the red, white or the blue
see ‘distinction of colour’, however;
b) There is evidence to suggest that, when introduced, its use was less restricted than became the practice later.
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);
A Flag for Generals at Sea 1649 - 1653, England (CS);
National Arms, Tanzania (fotw)
Flag of Cambridge, UK (fotw; Arms of
the Dukes of Wellington, UK (Wikipedia);
Flag of Bexley, UK (fotw)
Flag of Estévenens,
Switzerland (fotw)
Flag of Zeihen, Switzerland
(fotw)
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