![[Ottoman Empire]](../images/t/tr_ott62.gif)
Last modified: 2006-10-14 by ivan sache
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Znamierowski [zna99] shows on p. 6 a colour plate from Colton's Delineation of Flags of All Nations (1862). Six Ottoman naval flags are depicted on the plate, numbered #136 to #141. The caption given below are those from Colton.
Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001
#136. Ottoman Empire - Image by Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001
The flag is red with a green oval charged with three yellow crescents placed horizontally.
Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001
![[The Grand Seignior]](../images/t/tr_grs62.gif)
#137. The Grand Seignior - Image by Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001
The flag is green with seven equally-spaced thin red stripes.
Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001
![[Grand Vizier]](../images/t/tr_grv62.gif)
#138. Grand Vizier - Image by Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001
The flag is horizontally divided yellow-white-red, with three yellow crescents placed horizontally in the white stripe.
Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001
![[Turkish Man of War]](../images/t/tr_mwr62.gif)
#139. Turkish Man of War - Image by Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001
The flag is red with a white crescent and star at hoist. The star is eight-pointed. Above it, there is a long narrow red pennant with two long tails, looking like a modern masthead pennant.
Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001
![[Turkish Merchant]](../images/t/tr~o-cim.gif)
#140. Turkish Merchant - Image by Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001
The flag is horizontally divided red-green-red.
Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001
![[Ottoman Greek]](../images/t/tr~o-cig.gif)
#141. Ottoman Greek - Image by Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001
The flag is horizontally divided red-blue-red flag.
