image by Olivier Touzeau, 19 Dec 2003
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image by Olivier Touzeau, 19 Dec 2003
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The city of Port-Louis has its own flag, flown with the
national flag on the portal of the city hall
(Port-Louis flag on the left, Mauritius flag on the right). Both had
the same proportions, but it didn’t look like they were 2:3, as the
national flag should be. I would rather say 3:5. The flag of Port-Louis
is a banner of arms, bearing four anchors and five fleur-de-lys.
Olivier Touzeau, 19 Dec 2003
The flag of Port-Louis is a kind of canting flag is we “read”
the anchors as "port" and the yellow fleur-de-lys on blue as
"king of France", i.e.
"Louis".
(It seems that Port-Louis should be written Port Louis in English.)
Ivan Sache, 20 Dec 2003
A coworker just returned from Port-Louis reported no beach flags for bathers’ safety but yes a “traffic light” flag system in use in the lagoon for wind conditions, aimed at practitionners of windsurf and similar sports:
Red for dangerous wind, no practice; 
yellow for caution needed, seasoned practitionners only; and 
green for fair conditions, rookies allowed to go, too.
António Martins, 28 Apr 2010
In Port-Louis, the most frequently seen flag, except the
national one, is the flag of the Waterfront zone:
blue with "Port-Louis waterfront" logo. Situated on the south side of
the harbour Place d’Armes, the Waterfront (Le Caudan
Waterfront) is a recent hotel, leisure and shopping complex.
Olivier Touzeau, 19 Dec 2003
The said logo is
online (at an
official webpage),
with purple casual carve letters reading "Port Louis", above a line of regular
bold black capitals reading "waterfront" and under a stylized landscape
featuring a palm, a beach hut, a sea wave, and a thing that looks like "XX".
Online photos I found seem to show light blue flags, possibly with the logo:
this one
undated and this
one taken in 2009.11.
(Another
photo, undated, shows plain flags in different shades of blue.)
António Martins, 28 Apr 2010
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