US Naval Ensign
Excuse me if this question has already been covered or if the answer is well known.Why doesn't the US Navy use a different naval ensign as do numerous other navies, the most well known being the White...
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The simple answer is by executive order, the national colors are our naval ensign. The somewhat more complicated answer is, in 1775, the Grand Union flag was defacto adopted as the naval ensign and...
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Actually, for a while the flag added a star and a stripe every time a new state was admitted. The flag during the Barbary Wars had 15 stars and 15 stripes. Obviously, this started to get unwieldy...
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We're by no means the only nation to do so: Greece, France and the Netherlands, all nations with long naval traditions, use the national colors as the naval ensign. Same also with Spain, although in...
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chb2c wrote: The USCG uses a naval ensign, does it not? The USCG uses the Coast Guard Ensign only while they are enforcing US laws. It is...Read More
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This was actually required for Yachts from 1848 till recent ...Read More
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