Yugoslavia: Naval rank ensigns (Part 1: Upper ranks)

Last modified: 2002-10-19 by ivan sache
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• Law texts
• Commander of the Navy
• Fleet Commander
• Admiral of the Fleet
• Admiral
• Vice Admiral
• Rear Admiral

See also:

• Yugoslavia
• Yugoslavia: Naval ensigns and jack
• Yugoslavia: Rank ensigns, part 2 (Lower ranks)
• Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918-1929): Rank ensigns

Law texts

Law about the war ensigns of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The law was adopted on 31 May 1993 and 14 June1993, in House of the Republics and House of the Citizens of the Federal Assembly, respectively, and proclaimed by the "Decree on proclamation of the law ..." of the same date. The law became valid on 26 June1993, and the use of the flags should start with the date when the law on coat of arms became valid.

There is a list of previous laws that this one replaces, and they are in fact laws of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY):

• Law on war ensigns of the SFRY and rank and command flags, Official gazette of SFRY nr. 22/73
• Law on the vessel commanders' ensigns and pennants of the naval forces of the Yugoslav Army, Official gazette SFRY, 46/75.

Decision about the command ensigns and rank flags of the navy vessels of the Yugoslavian army, of the 19th January 1995.

Zeljko Heimer & Pascal Vagnat, 29 January 1999

Commander of the Navy

by Zeljko Heimer

The flag of the Commander of the Navy is white with a red anchor and a yellow rope and a border of blue-white-red-white (alternatively) rectangles. Proportions 1:1.
The text of the Decision mentions only a stylized anchor, and the rope is only to be seen (in yellow) in the annex.

Pascal Vagnat , 24 January 1999

Fleet Commander

by Zeljko Heimer

The flag of a Fleet Commander is white with a blue anchor and a yellow rope and the border as described above. Proportions 1:1.

Pascal Vagnat , 24 January 1999

Admiral of the Fleet

by Zeljko Heimer

The flag of the Admiral of the Fleet is horizontally divided blue-white-red with a yellow anchor in the canton and a border as described above. Proportions 1:1.

Pascal Vagnat , 24 January 1999

Admiral of the Fleet here is the title of a "five-star Admiral", which has nothing to do with the title of Fleet Commander shown above.

Zeljko Heimer, 25 April 2001

Admiral

by Zeljko Heimer

The flag of an Admiral is white with a yellow anchor in the canton and a border as described above. Proportions 1:1.

Pascal Vagnat , 24 January 1999

Vice Admiral

by Zeljko Heimer

The flag of a Vice Admiral is red with a yellow anchor in the canton and a border as described above. Proportions 1:1.

Pascal Vagnat , 24 January 1999

Rear Admiral

by Zeljko Heimer

The flag of a Rear Admiral is blue with a yellow anchor in the canton and a border as described above. Proportions 1:1.

Pascal Vagnat , 24 January 1999