Last modified: 2004-12-22 by ivan sache
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![[Albanian civil ensign]](../images/a/al~.gif)
by Željko Heimer
The civil ensign of Albania is horizontally divided red-black-red.
Source: Album des Pavillons [pay00]
![[Albanian naval ensign]](../images/a/al~nav.gif)
by Mark Sensen & Ivan Sache
The naval ensign of Albania is white with the Albanian black double-headed eagle and a thin red stripe at the bottom of the flag.
Source: Album des Pavillons [pay00]
Unknown flag possibly related to the naval ensign (1997)
A TV report about the unrest in southern Albania in spring 1997 was talking about how
rebels had seized some navy vessels. Flying from one of the ships was
an unusual variation on the Albanian national flag: the flag was
white with a broad red stripe along the bottom, and in the centre of
the white was a golden double-headed eagle outlined in black.
Is it an Albanian naval ensign (following a
similar sort of pattern to the old Soviet Union ones...), or a flag
of the rebels? Or possibly a flag of the region around Vlorë?
News reports don't make it sound as though the
rebels are a organised or cohesive enough group yet to have their own
flag.
James Dignan, 6 March 1997
I believe that this was the Albanian naval ensign. From around 1948 till 1992 it also had a small yellow outlined red star above the eagle heads (see Historical ensigns).
Bruce Ward, 6 March 1997
It is the Albanian naval (war) ensign, except that in Album des Pavillons [pay00] the eagle is black, as in the national flag. Maybe the golden eagle has to do with a command rank?
Ivan Sache, 6 March 1997
In a recent news footage of a demonstration in the town of Sarandë, the only flag being waved was the naval ensign (with black eagle and red stripe). Maybe the rebels have unofficially adopted it as their flag in order to distinguish themselves from the government side?
Roy Stilling, 6 March 1997
