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56:107 by Željko Heimer
The naval ensign defaced in the canton with a
blue anchor with golden crossbar and cord and crowned proper. Would this class
of ships be what is sometimes referred as the auxiliary naval ships? The
Album des Pavillons (2000)
clearly shows it as the naval red ensign, presumably because it comes from the
same manufacturers as the other naval flags, I guess.
Željko Heimer, 25 May 2004
State flag with crowned anchor in canton.
Album des Pavillons and
Flaggenbuch (1939) show the metal
part of the anchor as blue, although crossbar and rope are still golden.
Album des Pavillons calls this the "Defence flag manned by civilians",
implying that it goes for kinds of warships and additional
explanation is needed. The fact that this ensign is hoisted by
light-house authorities and pilot vessels is much more important than the fact
that they are under auspices of the Defence Ministry (anyway, pilots are not). Regarding the red shade, this one is dark (would it be normal red used by
pilots? I think not.)
Željko Heimer, 10 June 2001
Flaggenbuch (1939) reported 'Ensign used by
vessels subordinated to the Ministry of Marine and used as fireships (?) or
seamarks, including the lightships but not the geodesic ships (service ensign
without emblem). The ensign was also used by ships and vehicles used as pilots.'
In the correction (1941), caption was shortened to 'Ensign used by vessels and
vehicles subordinated to the Ministry of Marine but not belonging to the Navy
and by the cutters of the Navy.'
Ivan Sache, 11 June 2001
![[Marine Ministry]](../images/d/dk~md39.gif)
56:107 by Željko Heimer
This ensign was introduced by Royal resolution of 11 August 1916
for use by vessels that were not warships but were nonetheless
operated by the Ministry of Defence (formerly known as the
Ministry of the Navy, 'Marineministeriet'). The vessels using the
ensign was charged with maintaining light houses and light ships,
sea marks, etc. Royal resolution of 8 September 1916 extended
the use of the ensign to the pilot service as well. The flag is listed
in Christian Fogd Pedersen's 1979 flag book, and is presumably
still in use.
Paige Herring 23 April 1998
Politikens Flagbog gives for the
Ministry of
Defence a splitflag with the charge on a square on the cross: In the white
square a crowned blue anchor with white wood, foiled red. (A light red flag, but
there's no comparison as it doesn't show the war flag.)
Politikens Flagbog and the
Danmarksbog give
for state vessels (not necessarily defensive/serving the ministry of defence) a
splitflag with a white crown in the canton. Obviously there's some overlap in
these categories. It may be that nowadays those flags are no longer naval red,
and have new imagery, but whatever the current state: Would those naval red
flags have had the dimensions of the war flag (if there is indeed a difference)?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 20 June 2001
![[Danish Pilot ensign]](../images/d/dk~p.gif)
by
Željko Heimer
White bordered national flag, as (was) customary for this kind of flags. The caption explains that it is used only as pilot call sign while pilots themselves use ensign 21 (the Naval Auxiliary Ensign). The unusual figures for the ratio are result of adding 14 units of white border all around the standard sized national ensign 70x85 units (30+10+30 x 30+10+45). So:
![[Danish Pilot ensign]](../images/d/dk'p.gif)
Željko Heimer, 3 June 2004
The flag used by a ship to request a pilot. This flag is
shown somewhat differently in later sources than the
Flaggenbuch (1939) (for instance
Pedersen (1970) and
Pedersen (1979)). Here
the field within the border is square and red with a white
cross throughout, that is, it is not in the shape of the
Dannebrog.
Paige Herring 23 April 1998
Pilots don't use this type of flag any more
for identifying themselves, and the call for a pilot is nowadays not made by
flag. Is this flag still authorized?
Željko Heimer, 10 June 2001
Album des Pavillons (2000) does not have
the white bordered pilot flag present although it was still in the 1995 issue
and subsequent corrections.
Željko Heimer, 12 June 2001
The page
Danske Lodser (Danish pilots), based on Maritim kontakt 11, Kommandør
Sølling ea., also includes this about flags:
(About Poul Løwenørn who became "Overlods" (pilot authority) 23 December 1796.)
(translated)
For Løwenørn it was also important to make certain that the qualified and
officially appointed pilots would be recognisable as such for the outside world.
Where pilot craft was concerned, most pilots used at that time to fly a red
cloth in the white main sail, and Løwenørn had this custom laid down in the
multitude of new pilot regulations as an obligation and a right for auhorized
pilots only.
He further introduced a pilot flag, of which the upper quarter part was the
Dannebrog, while on the rest of the white flag stood painted "LODS" or "PILOT".
This pilot flag was used until 1824, when the pilot call flag was changed to the
national flag surrounded by a white border. This flag was in valid until 1978.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 20 June 2001
![[Danish Pilot Steamships Signal]](../images/d/dk~ps.gif)
by Željko Heimer
White over red bicolour rectangular flag. If I conclude correctly this flag
would be used on one side of the mainmast by these ships as a signal in addition
to the Naval Auxiliary Ensign at stern. These may have been abolished from usage
until today.
Željko Heimer, 3 June 2004
![[Danish Blue Ensign]](../images/d/dk-blue.gif)
by
Jan Oskar Engene
Danish Blue Flag
A couple of flag books (from the 1803-8 period), and also some paintings (from the period 1796 to 1848), show a flag with the
Dannebrog in the canton of a blue flag. In the flag books this is labelled 'Danish in West Indies'. The flag has been thoroughly
discussed by Jan Henrik Munksggard in an article called "Dannebrog i blatt pa danske og norske skip",(Sjöfartshistorisk
arbok 1985, pp. 143-205, Bergen, 1986). Munksgaard points out that no official sources can tell us what the flag was, and that
the flag is *not* the colonial ensign of the Danish West India. However, he argues that the flag was hoisted as a courtesy ensign
on the foretop mast by ships bound for the colony.
Jan Oskar Engene, 1997
See also:
![[Danish Blue pennant]](../images/d/dk_blue3.gif)
image
by Klaus-Michael Schneider
There was a triangular version of the blue flag with the Dannebrog in the
canton. It is displayed in a painting of C.C. Parnemans(?) 1798, showing the
Danish merchantman ST:CROIX PACKET leaving the harbour of Paramaribo (Dutch
Guiana/Suriname). The flag is hoisted at the mainmast and it is topped by a
small Dannebrog pennant. On the fore- and mizzenmast there are hoisted small
ordinary Dannebrogs, upon the bowsprit and the stern there are big rectangular
Dannebrog-flags showing on a white rectangle the initials of King Christian VII.
In the centre of both flags. The painting is exhibited in the Handels- og
Søfartsmuseet på Kronborg (HSM) in Helsingør (=Elsinore)/Danmark. (see attached
file: DK_blue3.JPG - sent as dk_blue3.jpg)
Source:
Per EILSTRUP & Nils Eric BOESGAARD: "Fjernt fra Danmark", Copenhagen
1974, p.120
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 March 2006
![[Quarantine flag]](../images/d/dk~q29.gif)
by Željko Heimer
Green rectangular flag.
This was used in Danish navigation presumably until the international yellow
flag was introduced in mid 20th century. This may have a connection with the
cognate Danish "green cross" flag (the Infirmary Flags, Danish lazaretflag)
used before the introduction of the Red Cross flag of the Geneva convention.
(see Infirmary flag).
Željko Heimer, 3 June 2004
![[Danish Maritime Association flag]](../images/d/dk^dma.jpg)
![[Danish Maritime Association flag]](../images/d/dk^dma).jpg)
images from Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 March 2019
This appears to be the flag of Danmarks Marineforening,
the Danish Navy Association (or Danish Maritime Association).
Brian Mills, 19 June 2019
Maritime Association? The association for those who went to sea, be it in the Navy, the Merchant Fleet and the Fishery Fleet. It's not an Old Comrades organization per se, but its local divisions do celebrate the camaraderie between those who went to sea, whatever their fleet may be or may have been.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 3 July 2019
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