Medical Service Ensign (Spain)

Pabellón para Embarcaciones de Sanidad

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
Keywords: ensign: medical | cross: maltese (white) |
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by Victor Lomantsov
Flag adopted 21st January 1977

• Description

See also:

• Ensigns, Jack and Commissioning Pennant (Pabellones, Torrotito y Gallardete)
• Medical Service Ensign 1945-1977 (Spain)
• Spain

The medical vessels' ensign (which apparently is only used by a single hospital-ship covering the Sahara coastal fishing fleet and moving to the Bay of Biscay during the tuna fishing season) is a national flag with the coat-of-arms replaced by a centred, white Maltese cross occupying the full height of the yellow stripe.

José Carlos Alegría, translated by Santiago Dotor, 6 December 2000

Album des Pavillons 2000 shows among others the Spanish sanitary/medical service ensign. Only one ship flies this ensign, the Esperanza del Mar, based at Las Palmas (Canary Islands) most of the year. It belongs to the Instituto Social de de la Marina (social institute of the merchant navy).

José Carlos Alegría, 16 December 2000

The 1977 Decree and Calvo and Grávalos 1983 show the same image, with some differences with the image in Album des Pavillons 2000.

• Firstly, the depth of the concave ends of the cross' arms. According to the image in the 197