France: Arrondissement ensigns for merchant ships (1814-1929), part 2

South of the river Loire and overseas

Last modified: 2002-10-19 by ivan sache
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• Rochefort arrondissement
  • From the left (south) bank of Loire river to Royan, incl.
  • From Royan to Spain border
• Toulon arrondissement
  • From Spain border to Marseilles (Marseille), incl.
  • From Marseilles (Marseille) to Piemonte border
• Colonies
  • Western colonies
  • Eastern colonies and Africa coast

See also:

• France
• Registration flags for merchant ships (1814-1929), part 1
• Colonial flags

Rochefort arrondissement

From the left (south) bank of Loire river to Royan, incl.

by Ivan Sache

J.P. Redon reports and a green instead of blue flag.

by Ivan Sache

From Royan to Spain border

by Ivan Sache

J.P. Redon reports here again a green instead of blue flag.

by Ivan Sache

Toulon arrondissement

From Spain border to Marseilles (Marseille), incl.

by Ivan Sache

From Marseilles (Marseille) to Piemonte border

by Ivan Sache

J.P. Redon reports "from Marseilles to Italian border" instead of "from Marseilles to Piemonte border". Note that Italy did not exist before 1861.

Colonies

Western colonies

by Ivan Sache

J.P. Redon reports "Ponant" insterad of "Western colonies". Ponant [from popular Latin sol ponens ,"setting sun"], is a mostly forgotten word for West, as opposed to Levant, "rising sun", for East; however Brest is still called port militaire du Ponant because in the past there was the flotte du Ponant, the Atlantic fleet, as opposed to the flotte du Levant, the Mediterranean fleet; Levantin is still used to design peoples from Eastern Mediterranean countries. The Echelles du Levant were the trading posts established by Christian nations from the XVIth century in the Eastern Mediterranean Moslim states.

Ivan Sache, 6 November 1999

Flaggen aller seefahrenden Nationen by Norie & Hobbs (1848) [noh48] shows this flag for French Colonies, Western.
Flaggen und Atlas by Bromme (1862) shows this flag for Frankreich Westind Kolonien (French West Indies Colonies).

Nozomi Kariyasu, 26 January 2001

Eastern colonies and Africa coast

by Ivan Sache

J.P. Redon reports "Orient" instead of "Eastern colonies and Africa coast". Orient [East] is the origin of the name of Lorient, formerly L'Orient. Logically the captions should have been Ponant and Levant, or Occident and Orient, or West and East.

Ivan Sache, 6 November 1999

Flaggen aller seefahrenden Nationen by Norie & Hobbs (1848) [noh48] shows this flag for French Colonies, African & Eastern.
Flaggen und Atlas by Bromme (1862) shows this flag for Frankreich Ostind Kolonien (French East Indies Colonies).

Nozomi Kariyasu, 26 January 2001