War Ensign (Malaysia)

Last modified: 2005-04-09 by santiago dotor
Keywords: canton (malaysia) | crescent: points to fly (yellow) | star: 14 points (yellow) | anchor | dagger | kris |
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by Željko Heimer

• Description
• Naval Jack

See also:

• Malaysia

Other sites:

• Malaysian War Ensign at the Shipmate flag chart online version

Description

The emblem on Malaysia's naval ensign consists of an anchor and two crossed traditional daggers (called kris). In Jane's Fighting Ships [jfs] the colour of the emblem is black, but I think dark blue is the appropriate colour. At least it is depicted as blue in Pedersen 1970 [ped70]. According to Pedersen, the naval ensign was introduced in 1968. The national flag in the canton is outlined with a thin red line, so that the bottom white stripe appears correctly on the white field.

Jan Oskar Engene, 19 September 1996

White ensign with the national flag in the canton and a blue emblem in the lower fly. The emblem consists of a fouled anchor and two kris daggers in saltire. Source: Album des Pavillons 2000 [pay00].

The Shipmate flag chart [vdv00] shows (online image here) a somewhat more elaborate emblem than the one in Album