Turkey: Naval rank ensigns - Officers with specific command

Last modified: 2004-02-28 by ivan sache
Keywords: commander in chief of the navy | naval base | chief of a station | anchor: fouled (white) | anchor (white) | crescent (white) | bomb |
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• The bomb
• Commander in Chief of the Naval Forces
• Commander of a naval base
• Junior commander at sea

  See also:

• Turkey
• Turkey: Naval rank flags - General officers
• Turkey: Naval rank flags - Senior officers
• Ottoman Empire: Flags shown in National Geographic (1917)

The "bomb"

The basic charge of several Turkish rank ensigns is a "bomb" (fide Album des Pavillons [pay00]). A bomb is a kind of 20-pointed star with points of different length, with the sequence <long-small-medium-small-long> repeated four times.

The graphic construction of the bomb is very detailed in Flaggenbuch (1939) [neu92], with the following construction details:

• diameter of the long rays: 40;
• diameter of the medium rays: 34;
• diameter of the small rays: 24.

The inner diameter of the bomb is not indicated, it could be 20. It seems that a small ray points upwards, followed clockwise by a medium ray, then by a small one and a long one, etc..

Comparatively, the bomb in Album seems to be somewhat bigger, slightly differently designed, and somewhat skew