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These are flags of government ministers from the Kingdom of Romania
(1921-1947) unless otherwise noted.
War minister:
image by Željko Heimer, based on Flaggenbuch (1939)
The national tricolour in a square format with a white letter M in the middle
of the blue stripe.
As explained previously, there are some minor differences between
this flag and the one used today, but they may be only due to
different representations.
There is no indication when this flag was adopted. According to FOTW
the flag was used up to 1952 when a new flag was adopted for the
function. However, do we have any confirmation that it was actually
used after WWII at all? I presume that it might have been technically
abolished only in 1948, but it might have been in disuse even longer.
Željko Heimer, 25 December 2002
The national tricolour in the square form. The flag was apparently abandoned
after WWII, and was not readopted in the end of 20th century.
Željko Heimer, 25 December 2002
1:1, image by Calvin Paige Herring
A yellow square flag with a red border and the coat of arms in the middle.
According to the explanation for the war ensign, below, the maximum usage period
might have been 1921-1948. We need more data to see what was used earlier, if
anything.
Željko Heimer, 25 December 2002
The national tricolour with the crown in the middle stripe. This flag is, I
presume, equivalent to what we would call a reserve officer's ensign, though
from the caption in
Flaggenbuch (1939) it is not clear if the
flag was indeed used by an officer not on duty. One should note that the crown
used was not the national crown used to
crown the shield of the arms (usually called, I think, the Iron Crown of
Romania), but the conventional heraldic royal crown. (But then, neither the
crowns with which are crowned heraldic beasts in the coat of arms are Iron
Crowns.)
Željko Heimer, 25 December 2002
Romanian sources do not have information about Reserve Naval Officers working
as Captains/Master Mariners on S.M.R. vessels having the right to hoist such a
flag on board when they were on duty! Besides the Captains (Naval Reserve) the
S.M.R vessels were
captained by civil Captains so I doubt very much that
S.M.R. (a government company) would had made such a discrimination between
Captains!
Marinel Chiriac, 2 May 2015
A blue square flag with a white letter P in the middle. As with most other
flags shown in
Flaggenbuch (1939) for Romania this was
probably abandoned after WWII, and was not readopted in the 1990's. However, I
would suspect that Romania uses since second half of the 20th century a white
triangular pennant with a voided blue lozenge as a signal indicating river
police on Danube as do other Danubian countries. I don't remember reading
reports about it from Romania (nor Bulgaria) so confirmation should be
interesting.
Željko Heimer, 25 December 2002
Postal Flag of the “Serviciul Maritim Român” (S.M.R.) (Romanian Maritime
Service). A white swallow-tailed flag with the national flag in a square canton
defaced overall with the royal crown and hanging from the canton on
blue strings a golden postal horn. This image was made using the crown from Calvin Paige
Herring's flag of a Naval Officer as Captain of Merchant Ship.
Source: the German Flaggenbuch, redrawn following the depiction of the flag in
the source.
Željko Heimer, 25 December 2002
S.M.R. paramount document, "Instructiuni asupra serviciului interior la
bordul bastimentelor, Bucuresti, 1897 (free translation: Instructions with
regard to the job fulfilling on board the ships Bucharest, 1897") describes the
SMR postal flag as follows: "A white swallow-tailed flag with the national flag
in a canton and a postal horn and a crown on white background."
Marinel
Chiriac, 2 May 2015
National flag with white border.
Flaggenbuch (1939) gives dimensions: height
of the tricolour 6, width of each stripe 3, width of border 2. Of course, this
yields an overall ratio of 10:13. I suspect that these dimensions, which are
certainly the most straight forward have not changed since and that if later
images (like the one in
Album des Pavillons (1995) do not entirely
match it they are only imprecise.
Željko Heimer, 25 December 2002