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by Zeljko Heimer, 24 August 2001
The pre WW2 Estonian naval jack is still in use today,
according to the French navy flag book. In the inter-war period,
it was also the flag used on coastal fortresses (source: German
navy flag book, 1939). I do not know whether this is still so
today.
Jan Oskar Engene, 20 November 1996
Before the war Estonia had at least three flags, one blue,
black, white for civil use, another with the arms in the middle
for the state and the same but swallow-tailed as war ensign.
There was also a jack based on the jack of Russia.
Pascal Vagnat, 27 November 1995
Estonia's naval ensign is as you described. The national flag
defaced with the shield of the state arms is the flag of the
Minister of Defense; defaced with the full state arms it is the
presidential flag. The Estonian jack is white with a wide blue
cross over a narrow black saltire. There is also a range of
military and naval rank flags; these are two-point swallow tailed
light blue-white vertical bicolors with horizontal golden yellow
stripes top and/or bottom to indicate the specific rank. Most
also display the shield of the arms.
Tom Gregg, 8 January 1998
According to the French Navy Album, issue 2000 [pay00] - Naval Ensign ---/--W (7:13) - Three tailed tricolour with lesser CoA off-set towards hoist. Construction details given are (27+27+24):(9+5+14+5+9). CoAs used in my image is taken from <