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Decree of 4/16 April 1833 On the Naval and Merchant Flags of the Kingdom
The Naval Flag (l'enseigne) of the Kingdom of Greece shall be as the attached design (unfortunately missing), it shall have five blue and four white horizontal stripes of equal width so arranged that the top and bottom stripes are blue and those in between alternately white and blue. In the upper hoist canton shall appear the emblem of our state, said emblem to occupy one-third of flag length and cover the topmost five stripes.The pendant (la flamme banderolle) shall be blue, and shall bear a small blue cross in the upper corner.
The Royal Standard for use on Boats (l'étendard) shall be a white equilateral cross on a blue field, and shall bear the blue and white rhomboidal* stripes of Our Ancestral House in its centre.
The merchant flag shall bear nine blue and white horizontal stripes in the same manner as the naval, but is without the emblem of our state. Also, it is forbidden for merchant ships to fly the pendant.
Two items of interest here (aside from the date). Firstly if made strictly according to law (and assuming proportions of 2:3) the canton of the Naval Ensign is not actually square; and secondly, this gives a merchant flag of nine stripes and no canton (which, if used at all, was certainly no longer in use in 1858).
Christopher Southworth, 20 March 2004
*The Bavarian lozenges are usually called "white and blue" and not "blue and white", which makes some difference.
Marcus Schmöger, 23 March 2004
Royal Decree of 28 August 1858