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Command and Rank flags until 1956 (The Netherlands)

Commando- en onderscheidingsvlaggen (Nederland)

Introduction
Command flags
Command flag Admiral
Command flag Lieutenant-Admiral
Command flag Vice-Admiral
Command flag Rear-Admiral
Command flag Commodore
Rank flags
Rank flag Admiral or Field Marshall
Rank flag Lieutenant-Admiral or General
Rank flag Vice-Admiral or Lieutenant-General
Rank flag Rear-Admiral or General-Major
Rank flag Commodore

See also:

Introduction

In the Dutch navy there is a distiction between command flags (indicating a function) and rank flags (indicating a rank). The designs are similar, but the former have proportions 1:1, the latter 2:3. Until 1956, when the present set of command and rank flags was adopted, the stars were rotated 90 degrees. According to Neubecker's Flaggenbuch, 1939 [neu92] the imaginary circle circumscribing a star was 9/20 of the height of the red stripe. I don't know when this set was adopted.
Mark Sensen, 28 Jul 2002

Command flags

Admiral (Admiraal)

image by Mark Sensen, 24 Jul 2002

The flag for admiral was the same as present.
Mark Sensen, 28 Jul 2002

Lieutenant-Admiral (Luitenant-Admiraal)

image by Mark Sensen, 28 Jul 2002

Vice-Admiral (Vice-Admiraal)

image by Mark Sensen, 28 Jul 2002

Rear-Admiral (Schout bij Nacht)

image by Mark Sensen, 28 Jul 2002

This function has a very distinctive name in Dutch not comparable to a term in any other language (at least as far as I know): "schout-bij-nacht" (literally: "sheriff at night" or "looks out at night")..
Mark Sensen, 24 Jul 2002

Commodore (Commodore)

image by Mark Sensen, 28 Jul 2002

Neubecker's Flaggenbuch, 1939 [neu92] doesn't show flags for a commander, but Kannik's Vlaggen, standaarden en wapens [kan59a] mentions it. I assume flags for this rank, or maybe even the rank itself, were created only after WWII.
Mark Sensen, 28 Jul 2002