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2000 Pennant
by Zeljko Heimer, 18 September 2000
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There seems to be a non-coincidental similarity between this
pennant and the Hungarian Danube Police
pennant. The Hungarian pennant, however, is not 1:2 in proportion
but rather 3:5 and the shape of its lozenge is different from the
Croatian pennant shown in the Album.
Ivan Sache, 16 September 2000
I do not think that it is coincidence, either, however, I have
no proofs. Though, I can give you some forther details regarding
the Croatian pennant and some hints on where to look for possible
former Yugoslav version. Also, L'Album needs some corrections.
The two legal documents are determining the river police pennat,
but carring the same name one replacing the other:
- Pravilnik o isticanju i vijanju zastave trgova?ke mornarice
Republike Hrvatske i isticanju znakova na brodovima trgova?ke
mornarice Republike Hrvatske na unutarnjim plovnim putevima, 25.
velja?e 1992.; Narodne novine br. 16/92, 26. ozujka 1992.
- Pravilnik o isticanju i vijanju zastave trgova?ke mornarice
Republike Hrvatske i isticanju znakova na brodovima
trgovacke mornarice Republike Hrvatske na unutarnjim plovnim
putevima, 22. svibnja 2000.; Narodne novine br. 56/00, 6. lipnja
2000.
(The Regulations on hoisting and flying of the Republic of
Croatia merchant flag, and the use of signals on the Republic of
Croatia merchant navy ships on the inner navigable watterways,
adopted 25 Febuary 1992, published in the official gatette on 26
March 1992, readopted 22 May 2000, puiblished 6 June 2000.)
Both regulations came in effect on the eight day of their issue
in the official gazette, so on 2 April 1992 and 13 June 2000
respectivly.
In the both regulations the pennant is determined in article 5,
being almost word for word the same in the two regulations, the
diferences does not consider us here. The wording of the name of
the pennant is slightly different, the 2000 regulation replacing
word "organ" with its synonim "tijelo":
"Plamenac brodova i camaca organa/tijela nadleznih za
sigurnost unutrasnje plovidbe" (meaning Pennant of the ships
and boats of organs in charge for the security of inner
navigation).
However, the images attached to the regulations (that are
considered part of those) are rather different, resulting in two
different designs of this pennant. So, let's take a look at the
design as prescribed in the text. The rhombus is prescribed to be
white with blue border. The horizontal diagonal is 80 cm,
vertical 65 cm, width of the blue border is 10 cm, and the height
of the black number inscribed in it is 20 cm. (same description
in both regulations). Both regulations allow this to be
proportionally decreased or increased in size. The pennant is in
shape of triangle with two sides being 1 m long and base of 0.50
meter (so it is not quite 1:2 ratio! - more closely 1:1.9365).
The 1992 image shows the rhombus with muc