Belgium: Naval flags, 1917, Part 2

Last modified: 2002-03-02 by ivan sache
Keywords: commodore | senior officer | jack | pilot |
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• Presentation
• Commodore
• Senior Officer afloat
• Jack
• Pilot flag

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

Commodore

by Zeljko Heimer

#537. Black-yellow-red tricolour, with the red stripe twice the width and split thoughout. Apparent proportion 1:2.

Zeljko Heimer, 27 February 2001

Senior Officer afloat

by Zeljko Heimer

#538. Blue triangular pennnant in proportion 2:3.

Jack

by Zeljko Heimer

#539. Black-yellow-red tricolour, in proportion 2:3.
Current jack is similar but square.

Pilot flag

by Zeljko Heimer

#540. Black-yellow-red tricolour with white border, in proportion 2:3.

by Phil Nelson

Also shown in Webster's New International Dictionary (circa 1924).