Ireland: the Naval Service

Last modified: 2005-08-11 by rob raeside
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• Naval Service jack
• Commodore's flag
• Senior Officer afloat
• Masthead pennant
• Naval Service colour

See also:

• Ireland
• The Green Flag
• Flags of the colonial period
• Commissioner of Irish Lights
• Irish Naval Service flags at http://www.military.ie/naval/naval_flags.htm

2:3  Source: Album des Pavillons (2000)

by Zeljko Heimer

Flag introduced July 1947 (Hayes McCoy, 1979)

Vincent Morley, 2 February 2002

The Irish jack is a green flag with a yellow harp. Even if the harp represented should picture the same real harp (Brian Boru) as on the coat of arms, according to Vincent Morley, the representation actually used as a rule is much simplified. In effect it is only the silhouette of the harp. Also while the harp in the coat of arms is in the "playing position" so that the strings are vertical, on the jack it is rotated a bit (apparently about 15 degrees counterclockwise).  See also discussion of the harp.

Zeljko Heimer, 29 January 2002

The naval service jack is the historic Green Flag.

Vincent Morley, 19 December 1996

The Irish Naval Service flags website at http://www.military.ie/naval/naval_flags.htm shows the harp on the Jack with its strings upright (in the playing position) and gives the colour of those strings