(1:2)image by Željko Heimer, 1 November 2001
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image by Željko Heimer, 1 November 2001
Horizontal Blue White Blue, with the Coat of Arms in the
center, and a semicircle of 5 Blue stars below the Coat of Arms.
Jan Zrzavy, 16 January 1998
According to Album 2000 [pay00]
- Naval Ensign (---/--W 1:2) - National triband of
blue-white-blue with the coat of arms set in the middle above an
arch of five stars.
[smi82] designate this flag as
"reconstruction" i.e. design only confirmed from
written sources, and not seen in use. Do we have modern sources
(legislation) describing (or better picturing) this ensign, and
do we have confirmation of its use by HN navy?
[gmc17] has the stars yellow and
reaching in the lower blue stripe.
[neu92] shows the same "one
square" flag as [gmc17] as
the national flag and merchant ensign and the same flag as above
as war ensign.
Honduras is among pages included in
Corr. 1 of the Album [pay01], but
as far as I could see the only correction that was made is making
the naval ensign image to match the prescribed ratio 1:2, as it
was already given in Album 2000, but the image was not matching.
Željko Heimer, 1 November 2001
image by Željko Heimer, 1 November 2001
image by Željko Heimer, 1 November 2001
According to Album 2000 [pay00]
- Masthead Pennant - long triangular pennant vertically divided
in blue white blue (approximately 1+1+3) in ratio 1:20~. In the
white stripe there are five blue stars arranged as in the
national flag. I include two versions, regarding the shape of the
stars.
Željko Heimer, 1 November 2001
Yesterday evening whilst watching Sky News on TV here in the
UK, there was a story about the decision of Honduras to withdraw
its 390 member contingent from the coalition forces in Iraq. To
accompany the story there were several pictures of the Honduran
troops, although it was not clear whether they had been filmed in
Iraq or back in Honduras before they were deployed.
They wore standard olive green fatigue uniforms with rank and
other insignia in black, as well as crimson berets with a
brightly coloured unit crest prominently displayed. However, what
was vexillologically unusual about this story was the flag which
was carried by the colour party (this was apparently some sort of
review or inspection). In addition to the five-starred Honduran
national flag, there was also a similar blue-white-blue flag as
well, but instead of the five stars in the centre there was an
emblem which looked very much like the crossed sabres of the US
Cavalry, in the same shade of blue as the rest of the flag. The
same insignia was visible in black on the right collar tab of the
individual troops. These soldiers did not look like cavalrymen,
and I have no idea whether the Hondurans have any tanks or
armoured cars and whether these were sent with them to Iraq or
were provided by the US or another. However, the red beret leads
me to believe that they were not cavalrymen, mechanised or
otherwise.
Could the flag with the crossed sabres be a regimental or corps
flag? There was no lettering nor were there any numbers on the
flag which I could see, and as it was rather a windy day both the
national flag and this one were clearly displayed. Another
possibility might be that this was a war or army flag; the
Hondurans may not have had a flag like this previously , but when
they decided to send troops to Iraq they may have decided that
they needed one.
Ron Lahav, 21 April 2004
