Ukraine - Historical Naval Flags (1918) - Part 1

Last modified: 2004-07-31 by dov gutterman
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• Overview
• Pre-January 1918 Ensign
• January 1918 Flags
  • Merchant Ensign
• May 1918 Flags
• Part 2

see also:

• Ukraine
• Ukraine - Naval Flags
• Ukraine - Historical Flag - Index
• Ukraine - Historical Naval Rank Flags (1918)
• Ukraine - Historical Air Force Flags (1918)
• Ukraine - Historical Flag (1917-1918)
• Ukraine - Historical Rank Flags (1918)
• Ukraine - Historical Flag - Hetmanete Flags (1918)
• State Symbol (The Trident)

Overview

In May, 1918 ukrainian navy officers Pokrovsky and Demenko created the projects of navy flags:
- navy ensign - white with blue saltire (like navy ensign of former Russian Empire, in that times this flag was abolished in Russia by bolsheviks).
- jack - blue-yellow with gold 'seal of St.Volodimer' (trident)
- civil ensign - blue-yellow.
The flags were approved by contre-admiral Maximov.

In summer of 1918 new flags were designed. The flags were adopted by hetman (head of state) P.Skoropadsky on 18, July, 1918.
- Navy ensign - white with blue cross (cross with thin white and blue borders), national colours in canton, gold (bronze) trident in the centre of canton. Ratio - unknown; width of the cross - 1/11 of flag-height; widths of blue and white borders - 1/8 of width of the cross.
Source: V.Trembitsky, article in ukrainian bulletin "Znak"
Victor Lomantsov, 27 December 2000

I can't read Ukranian, but the flag is described in french by Philippe in a very good piece about ukranian flags, and also in Banderas, and the double fimbriation of the cross is YELLOW and BLUE instead White and Blue. Trident color  is quoted as black instead bronze.
Jaume Olle', 7 January 2001

No. The cross have WHITE and BLUE fimbriations. The trident is gold (bronze) I have the original text of the Order of Navy Minister of Ukraine Rogoza (1918) with detailed description of the ensign. Yellow-blue fimbriation and black trident are mistakes. Modern ukrainian Navy readopted the ensign of 1918 (with small changes). Now the fimbriation of ukrainian navy ensign is blue-white too. Concering the images - the trident is gold and the cross is thiner.
Victor Lomantsov, 7 January 2001 and 3 Febuary 2001

After the Revolution 1917, the time of anarchy and demoralization came into former Russian Black Sea Fleet. The Fleet, stationed in Sevastopol, was commanded by collective "Centroflot". Diffefent political influences clashed: Ukrainian, Bolshevist, Menshevist, Social-Revolutionary and Anarchist. Very different flags were hoisted over ships: Ukrainian bicolors, old Russian ensigns, Bolshevist red flags an