Socialist Yugoslavia: Naval flags (1949-1956)

Part 1

Last modified: 2004-11-13 by ivan sache
Keywords: star (red) | president | naval ensign | masthead pennant | people's defense ensign | honour naval ensign |
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• Overview
• Naval ensign
• Honour naval ensign
• Masthead pennant
• People's Defense Ensign
• President of the Republic

See also:

• Socialist Yugoslavia
• Socialist Yugoslavia: Naval flags (1956-1991)

Overview

The naval ensign and a whole set of naval flags were established in 1949 by the law on the naval flags of FPRY (Zakon o vojno-pomorskim zastavama FNRJ, 6 June 1949, published in Službeni list FNRJ 50/49, 11 June 1949.

Those flags closely followed the Soviet model of the time. However, except for the naval ensign, those were soon (1956) replaced with the more traditional Yugoslav model, based on the royal navy flags used before the Second World War.

Željko Heimer, 15 October 2003

Naval ensign

by Željko Heimer

The naval ensign is a red flag with the national tricolour flag in the canton fimbriated with a white line. In the middle of the tricolour flag is set a yellow-bordered red five-pointed star within a yellow-golden wreath.

Source: Symbol und Wirtschaft [suw50i]

Željko Heimer, 15 October 2003</