Socialist Yugoslavia: Naval flags (1956-1991)

Last modified: 2004-12-22 by ivan sache
Keywords: star (red) | president | naval ensign | border guard ensign | torches: 5 (red) | torches: 6 (red) | minister of defense |
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• Overview
• Naval ensign
• Naval jack
  • First version (1956-1963)
  • Second version (1963-1991)
• Border Guard Ensign
• President of the Republic
  • First version (1956-1963)
  • Second version (1963-1991)
• Minister of Defense
  • First version (1956-1963)
  • Second version (1963-1991)
• Masthead pennant

See also:

• Socialist Yugoslavia
• Socialist Yugoslavia: Naval rank flags (1959-1991) - Upper ranks
• Socialist Yugoslavia: Naval rank flags (1959-1991) - Lower ranks
• Socialist Yugoslavia: Naval rank flags (1959-1991) - Non-naval dignitary ranks
• Socialist Yugoslavia: Naval rank flags (1959-1991) - Army ranks
• Socialist Yugoslavia: Naval flags (1949-1956)

Overview

New regulations on the naval flags was issued in 1956, replacing the 1949 regulations:

• Zakon o vojnim pomorskim zastavama FNRJ i o komandnim i rangovnim zastavama, 5 June 1956, published in Službeni list FNRJ 22/56
• Pravilnik (o komandnim i rangovnim zastavama FNRJ), published in Službeni list FNRJ 36/56

The new regulations retain the naval ensign established in 1949, drop out the honour ensign, rename the border guard ensign and introduce the naval jack and a whole new set of rank and command flags and pennants, based on the royal Navy flags used before the Second World War.

In 1963 the name of the state was changed to Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia and the national coat of arms was modified.
The national flag was not changed, but those flags that included the coat of arms were modified:

• Naval jack
• President of the Republic
• Minister of Defense

As far as I know, there was no official laws and regulations introducing the change formally in the set of naval flags, and I believe that this was formally done only in the 1970s with the following regulations:

• Zakon o vojnim pomorskim zastavama SFRJ, published in Službeni list FNRJ 22/73
• Pravilnik [o vojnim pomorskim zastavama SFRJ?), published in Službeni list FNRJ 46/75

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