Belgium: Naval flags, 1917, Part 1

Last modified: 2002-03-02 by ivan sache
Keywords: secretary of the navy | admiral | vice admiral | rear admiral | masthead pennant | disks: 4 (white) | disks: 3 (white) | disks: 2 (white) |
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• Presentation
• Secretary of the Navy
• Admiral
• Vice Admiral
• Rear Admiral
• Masthead pennant

See also:

• Belgium
• Belgium: History of the Navy
• Belgium: Naval ensign and jack
• Belgium: Naval rank flags

Presentation

The October 1917 issue of National Geographic Magazine [gmc17] shows p. 347, figures 532 through 540, a set of naval flags different from the current ones.
The colour plate is conveniently reprinted in Zanmierowski [zna99] on page 97.

Numbers below are from the plate in Number is the number of the figure in National Geographic Magazine and the name are the appropriate US counterparts, since the plate shows different naval flags in comparison with US system.

Zeljko Heimer, 27 February 2001

Secretary of the Navy

by Zeljko Heimer

#532. Black-yellow-red tricolour, in proportion 2:3.
This is probably the same flag as the one currently used for members of the government (only now it is square). It would be one of the ministers that would be counterpart of the US Secretary of the Navy.

Zeljko Heimer, 27 February 2001

Admiral

by Zeljko Heimer

#533. Black-yellow-red tricolour, with four white disks placed vertically in black stripe. Proportion 2:3.

Vice Admiral

by Zeljko Heimer

#534. Black-yellow-red tricolour, with three white disks placed vertically in black stripe. Proportion 2:3.

Rear Admiral

by Zeljko Heimer

#535. Black-yellow-red tricolour, with two white disks placed vertically in black stripe. Proportion 2:3.

Masthead pennant

by Zeljko Heimer

#536. Long rectangular black-yellow-red pennant with split fly (indentation 1/4 of length)
Still in use.