Last modified: 2001-06-23 by jonathan dixon
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In 1920, the Australian Naval Board Flag was to follow the general style of the Lord High Admiral or
Admiralty Flag, of a yellow horizontal anchor on a red flag, but the
Australian Government proposed either a white horizontal stockless
anchor on a blue flag, or a yellow one on a red flag. The Admiralty
wanted the flag to be divided horizontally red over blue, as this made it
possible to construct a "family" of naval board flags. Canada's, as used
until 1960, was divided diagonally, red to the hoist; New Zealand's is
divided vertically, red to the hoist, and Union of South Africa's was to
have been quartered diagonally. The Admiralty had no objection to a stockless anchor, but in the event a
conventional anchor was chosen.
David Prothero, 25 Apr 2000
From memory, and a rough sketch, the appearance of the anchor is
exactly the same as the anchor on the Defence Force Ensign,
though it's hard to be sure if the proportions are the same.
Roughly:
Flag 1:2
Extreme width of anchor 2/3rds of the width of flag.
Extreme length of anchor, including the anchor ring which is in line
with the shank, 1.8 times the width.
Anchor centred horizontally, with the arms in the fly of the flag.
The chain, rectangular links, runs in a very shallow S, from the
anchor ring towards the top of the flag, descends in front of the
shank and disappears behind the lower fluke.
Incidentally the conventional drawing of a traditional anchor is, as
the representation of a real anchor, unusable. To work, the stock,
the bar across the top of the anchor, has to be at right angles to the
arms, and should therefore be visible only as a small circle or square
little wider than the width of the upright part of the anchor. I can
think of only two instances in which the anchor is drawn in perspective to
make this apparent; Canadian Jack, and Bangladesh Admirals' Flags.
David Prothero, 26 Apr 2000
According to Album 2000 this is the flag of the Chief of Naval Staff.
Zeljko Heimer, 5 February 2001
The Naval Officer Commanding's car flag is a forked pennant a la Commodore, but shorter and with teh red ball replaced by a blue anchor of the type in the joint services flag.
Source: Album 2000
Zeljko Heimer, 5 February 2001
A note to the flag of the Chief of Naval Staff in Album 2000 says that the Australian rank flags for Admiral to Commodore are the same as in the British Royal Navy.
Zeljko Heimer, 5 February 2001
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