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Local Flags in Victoria (Australia)

Greater Melbourne Ensign
City of Melbourne
Melbourne Harbour Trust
Port of Geelong

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Greater Melbourne Ensign

image by John Vaughan, 7 Jan 2005

Many years ago I saw a flag in Melbourne, and sort of forgot it, until Australia Day when I saw news footage of a tall ship in Sydney wearing it. It is red, with a blue St. George's Cross fimbriated white, bearing five eight-pointed white stars (one at the centre and one at each arm); a white tall ship in the canton.
Miles Li, 9 Feb 2003

The flag you probably saw was a design by John Vaughan for a "Greater Melbourne" flag - similar to the design concept of his "Greater Sydney" flag.
Ralph Kelly, 10 Feb 2003

City of Melbourne

image by Eugene Ipavec, 30 May 2005

The City of Melbourne flag is a (roughly) a banner of arms. The arms are described at this page on the City of Melbourne website:

"On a silver shield, a red cross (the cross of St George) with a narrow red bar (known as a cotise) is adjacent to, and parallel with, each side of each arm of the cross. On the central part of the cross is a Royal Crown. Also on the shield, in the four quarters, are: a fleece hanging from a red ring; a black bull standing on a hillock; a spouting whale swimming in the sea; and a three-masted ship in full-sail."

At the bottom of the page is a photo of what appears to be the reverse of the flag.
Jonathan Dixon, 28 May 2005

Melbourne Harbour Trust

image by Miles Li, 6 Aug 2005

Here is the Blue Ensign of the Melbourne Harbour Trust. This Blue Ensign [with white crossed anchors in the fly] was adopted when the Trust became operational in 1877 (it was established the year before in 1876), but had never been authorized by an Admiralty warrant, according to Flags of the World [car61]; it is probably no longer in use (the Trust was renamed Port of Melbourne Authority in 1978).
Miles Li, 6 August 2005

From 1995 to 2003, it was known as the Melbourne Port Corporation and 2003 to date, the Port of Melbourne Corporation.
Sources:
(1) Port Services Act 1995 from Victorian Consolidated Legislation on Australasian Legal Information Institute
(2) Port of Melbourne Corporation
Colin Dobson, 9 August 2005

Port of Geelong

image by Mason Kaye, 6 Dec 2003

A map on a flag from Mason Kaye's presentation is the Port of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Mason describes this as "A silver or grey map of Australia on a white field." I would add the map is augmented by a large G-shaped double-ended arrow, with the inner end of the arrow pointing to the location of Geelong.
Source: Kevin Harrington
Rob Raeside, 6 Dec 2003