Soviet Navy, sea-rescue flags

Last modified: 2002-11-02 by antonio martins
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This flag was published in 1925 in Album of flags and pennants of USSR [urs25]. Officially it was an «ensign for water-rescuing ships and flag for water-rescuing institutions». This flag was not a flag for Society of Red Cross and Red Crescent — founded in 1925 too.
Victor Lomantsov, 16 Apr 2000

Later (in magazines of 1970ths) I saw analogous flag for rescuing-ships but with USSR-flag in canton. I don`t know details of adoption...
Victor Lomantsov, 16 Apr 2000

Societies of Water Salvation, in Russia, Belorussia and other republics of USSR, had their own flags: the Society of Water Salvation of RSFSR had light-blue flag with small RSFSR-flag in canton and emblem in the centre. Emblem: red cross, two crossed blue anchors inside white-orange life-buoy with inscriptions: "OSVOD" (orange letters on white half of life-buoy) and "RSFSR" (white letters on orange half). This flag described in the Statutes of 1970.
Victor Lomantsov, 16 Apr 2000