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Argentine Navy

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Navy flag, example
Navy flag of Argentina
by Jaume Ollé, 30 Jul 2000
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Navy flag afloat

This is the official pattern: I dont know if de facto is used with darker blue shade. The letters in the below part are different in each destination. Ratio 13:20.
Jaume Ollé, 30 Jul 2000


Navy flag ashore

Navy flag on land: is the national one with sun in Ratio 9:14
Jaume Ollé, 30 Jul 2000


Navy jack

Naval jack of Argentina
by Jaume Ollé, 30 Jul 2000

Argentine Jack: the width of the border is 1/5 of the total length (not height). Dimensions are 1 and 1.14, according to the (argentine) Institute of Naval Studies.
Gustavo Tracchia, 15 Feb 2000

The argentine jack is a white square panel with a light blue border. Centered upon the white panel is the Sun of May with 32 straight and wavy rays alternating, in gold.
Paige Herring and Jarig Bakker, 11 Jan 1999

Pedersen [ped71] lists the Argentine jack as 50:57, not quite square.
Michael Smuda, 11 Jan 1999

The use of this flag as the flag of admirals not in command is mentioned in Album 2000 (as well as in 1995 issue).
Zeljko Heimer, 03 Feb 2001

Dark blue version in actual use

de facto naval jack
by Jaume Ollé, 30 Jul 2000

The above is the official pattern, this is as it’s really used.
Jaume Ollé, 30 Jul 2000


War Pennant

war pennant
by António Martins, 01 Feb 2002

Blue-white-blue triangular pennant. The tri-coloured stripes are decreasing in width as reaching the fly end (so that in any vertical cut the relative width of the three stripes is equal). The pennant ratio as drawn in