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Cayman Islands

by Zeljko Heimer and Antonio Martins , 5 January 2000

Official Name: Cayman Islands
Capital: George Town
Location: Caribbean
Government Type: British Overseas Territory
Flag adopted: 14 May 1958
Coat of Arms adopted: 14 May 1958
ISO Code: KY

The Flag
Government Ensign
Civil Ensign
Description of the Arms
Use of Ensigns by Foreign Ships
Subdivisions

See also:

The Flag

I found that the white disc was removed from Cayman Islands blue ensign on Flag Data Base (by Flag Institute) although before it has white disc.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 3 June 2000

The blue ensign with the white disc seems to be used everywhere (government site, American Express commericial, the 2000 chart from Shipmate, Znamierowski's books out now).
Steve Stringfellow, 17 June 2000

In 1999 the Ministry of Defence (MoD) department in charge of flags, the DCTA, decided, in consultation with the College of Arms, that the badges on many British flags were too small for identification. They also did not match the newer flags granted directly by the Queen, through the College of Arms, which have much larger badges.
So the MoD decided to make the badges much larger - the size and placement of badges on British ensigns was a decision in the power of the Admiralty, and passed to the MoD when the Admiralty ceased to exists as a separate body. So the MoD was simply exercising its authority in the matter, for the better identification of flags.
This meant that the white discs had to get larger. In fact the discs had to be so large that they looked ridiculous and it was therefore decided to discard them as they were no longer necessary, the new badges being clear even without the discs. So the new illustration of the Falkland Islands, Cayman Islands and Montserrat in BR20 (the government flag book) all had much larger badges (but no change to the design of the badge) and no white discs.
Of course the MoD's authority on flags only covers flags at sea, so the Islands concerned are free to continue using flags with discs on land if they wish to, but flags for use at sea should no longer have discs (unless they are old flags still in