Name (required):

  Expression ^{(Optional mood/title along with your name) Examples: (happy, sad, The Joyful, etc.) help)}

  E-mail address (optional):

* Type your message here:
>Albert > >The White ensign as used by English Vice/Rear/Admirals >of the white squadron <b>is</b> the English flag >(cross of Saint George), with the union flag in the >upper left canton and that is what would have been >flown. The Red and Blue ensigns don't have the cross, >but do have the Union flag. > >There's quite a nice web page here <a rel=nofollow >target=_blank >href="http://tmg110.tripod.com/british1.htm">http://tmg >110.tripod.com/british1.htm</a> with details of flags >at different times > >Cy > >>>Albert >>> >>>As I understand it the Commisisonig Pennant was flown >>>from the main top, and only, as I said, by private >>>ships. >>> >>>A ship with a flag officer would fly his squadron >>>colour at the appropriate station. >>> >>>I think it would appear that the Victory would not >>>carry a Pennant (Pendant). Which is how I have always >>>understood it. >>> >>>Cy >> >>I haven't found a plain statement to that effect yet. >>Meanwhile, in any case <I>Victory</i> would not have >>been flying a White Ensign from the foremast, but >>rather a white flag with a red cross, the flag of >>"England." That was what rear-admirals, >>vice-admirals, and admirals of the "White Squadron" >>used as a command flag. Collingwood being a >>vice-admiral of the Blue Squadron, <i>Royal >>Sovereign</i> would have had a plain blue rectangular >>flag at the foremast; <i>Britannia</i> would have had >>the flag of England at the mizzen mast.

Notice: Copies of your message may remain on this and other systems on internet. Please be respectful.