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Paraguayan Navy admiral rank flags

Chief of the Fleet
Admiral (as of 1917)
Vice-Admiral
Rear-Admiral
Admiral not in Command

See also:

Chief of the Fleet

image by Željko Heimer, 25 Oct 2002

Shown in [pay00]: 1:2 blue flag with a yellow anchor in the middle. This position was not noted in Neubecker 1939 [neu92].
Željko Heimer, 25 Oct 2002

Shown also in Album 1995 recapitulative issue [pie95]. (Only anchor, no stars; 1:2)
Željko Heimer, 27 Oct 2002

Admiral

as of 1917

image by Željko Heimer, 29 Oct 2002

Shown in [gmc17], as image #505: Swallow-tailed red-white-blue tricolour in 333:500 ratio, with a yellow crescent in the white stripe near the fly. The crescent is of particular shape, unlike the Muslim crescents. Latter sources do not show any flag for full admirals. The first later source (that I have), the Flaggenbuch [neu92], shows already a new set of flags, blue with stars, basically the same as in use today. I suspect that this flag with a crescent might be relict from time when the admiral's flags were hoisted on different masts to indicate different grades, and that in time of the Great War the Paraguayan Navy did not have modernised in this sence, something that was done latter in due time to get into Flaggenbuch [neu92], so to say.
Željko Heimer, 06 Oct 2002

Vice-Admiral

image by Željko Heimer, 25 Oct 2002

Shown in [pay00]: 1:2 blue flag with three yelow five-pointed star set in falling diagonal (i.e. one in upper hoist corner, one in the middle of the flag and one in lower fly). Neubecker 1939 [neu92] attributes this flag also to Inspector General of the Navy. T