![[Commander in chief of the navy]](../images/t/tw~cn58.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 02 April 2014
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image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 02 April 2014
Proportions: approximately 5:8
Blue flag with yellow border and in the center two white
cabled anchors in saltire in the top white lined blue disk
with white sun. This flag is not shown in Flaggenbuch
(probably the position was created later then that). However,
I have assumed that the shape of the anchors is equal to the
Flaggenbuch pattern. In Album the anchors and cables are
somewhat cruder.
Željko Heimer, 4 February 2003
![[Deputy Commander in chief of the navy]](../images/t/tw~dcn58.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 02 April 2014
Proportions: approximately 5:8
As commander, but with yellow borders only along the top and
the bottom.
Željko Heimer, 4 February 2003
![[Deputy Commander in chief of the navy]](../images/t/tw~fc60.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 02 April 2014
![[Deputy Commander in chief of the navy]](../images/t/tw~dfc60.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 02 April 2014
![[Commander in chief of the navy]](../images/t/tw~cn62.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 02 April 2014
![[Deputy Commander in chief of the navy]](../images/t/tw~dcn62.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 02 April 2014
![[Deputy Commander in chief of the navy]](../images/t/tw~fc62.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 02 April 2014
![[Deputy Commander in chief of the navy]](../images/t/tw~dfc62.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 02 April 2014
![[Deputy Commander in chief of the navy]](../images/t/tw~cn.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 04 April 2014
![[Deputy Commander in chief of the navy]](../images/t/tw~dcn.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 04 April 2014
Flag of Deputy Commanader-in-Chief of the Navy was abolished in early 1986
(Jan. 3rd, 1986) as Act of Ensign of the ROC Armed Forces adopted.
Akira Oyo, 04 April 2014
![[Deputy Commander in chief of the navy]](../images/t/tw~fc.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 04 April 2014
Flag of Fleet Commander was abolished in early 1986 (Jan. 3rd, 1986) as Act
of Ensign of the ROC Armed Forces adopted.
Akira Oyo, 04 April 2014
![[Deputy Commander in chief of the navy]](../images/t/tw~dfc.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 04 April 2014
Flag of Deputy Fleet Commander was abolished in early 1986 (Jan. 3rd,
1986) as Act of Ensign of the ROC Armed Forces adopted.
Akira Oyo, 04 April 2014
![[Taiwanese Senior Admiral Rank Flag]](../images/t/tw~adm1.gif)
2:3
image by Miles Li, 30 March 2014
![[Taiwanese Admiral Rank Flag]](../images/t/tw~adm2.gif)
2:3
image by Miles Li, 30 March 2014
Description: This flag is listed in the 1919 edition of Jane's Fighting
Ships. It consists of the canton of the Taiwan flag. The 1930 edition of
Jane's Fighting Ships shows a similar Admiral rank flag with a thin
horizontal stripe running across the top edge of the flag.
Glen Robert-Grant Hodgins, 30 March 1998
The former rank flag was the KMT flag. Thus, the adoption of this flag as
the jack, necessitated a modification to the Admiral's Rank Flag. This
was accomplished by adding a narrow red stripe along the topmost edge of
the existing flag.
Note: A story told to me many years ago involved the selection of the
Chinese Nationalist jack and the admiral rank flag went something to
this effect. Several Admirals complained to Chain Kai-Shek about taking
all the admiral flags for jacks and they were left without the highest
naval rank flag. So until more flags were approved and manufactured, the
admirals would be undistinguished by an approved rank flag. To which he
(Chain Kai-shek) replied by grabbing a Vice-Admiral's flag nearby and
turning it upside down saying "Admiral behold your newly approved rank
flag." This may explain why all the remaining flags were changed to
include red stripes in some manner.
C. Eugene Baldwin, 9 December 1998
Blue flag with white sun in the middle and red stripe along the top. While the
Flaggenbuch provides complex construction sheet, it may well be described very simply,
and I don't think even an image is necessary.
The overall sun diameter (including rays) is 2/3 of the hoist, and is set in
the center of the flag. The stripe width is equal to 1/11 of the hoist. This construction
of the other rank flags is analogue. For the swallow-tailed flags, the indentation
is half the hoist deep, the sun is in the midpoint between hoist and top of the
blue indentation. For squadron commander see further on.
I believe that the construction details have not been changed since, however,
the Album does not entirely follow them - the sun is everywhere made smaller (about
55% of hoist instead of ~67%). Also the sun does not retain the mid-flag position,
but rather it is centered in the blue field. I am inclined to think that this is
an oversight rather then news. Is it not?
Željko Heimer, 5 February 2003
![[Taiwanese Vice Admiral Rank Flag]](../images/t/tw~vadm.gif)
2:3
image by Miles Li, 30 March 2014
This flag is
the same as the Admiral's Flag with the exception that the narrow red
stripe is along the bottom edge. This flag is the same as its predecessor
in the former regime and the above story may indicate why there was no
change. I do not know.
C. Eugene Baldwin, 10 December 1998
Blue flag with white sun in the middle and red stripe along the bottom.
Željko Heimer, 5 February 2003
![[Taiwanese Rear Admiral Rank Flag]](../images/t/tw~radm.gif)
2:3
image by Miles Li, 30 March 2014
Here again, the KMT Flag is used by the addition of a narrow red stripe along the
edge at the top and bottom. This flag would be
used from 1913 and be re-adopted by the Nationalist in 1928.
C. Eugene Baldwin, 10 December 1998
Blue flag with white sun in the middle and red stripes along both the top and
the bottom.
Željko Heimer, 5 February 2003
![[Commodore rank flag, 1928-1986]](../images/t/tw~cdre.gif)
image by Miles Li, 31 March 2014
Swallow-tailed flag, blue with white sun and red stripe along the fly indentation.
Željko Heimer, 5 February 2003
It was also used in Taiwan, ROC abolished the rank in 1956, but removed this
flag from the Act in early 1986. That is, it was abolished de facto in 1956 and
de jure in 1986.
Akira Oyo, 29-31 March 2014
![[Senior Officer Afloat Rank Flag]](../images/t/tw~bfldr.gif)
1:2
image by Miles Li, 31 March 2014
Blue broad-pennant with red edges along top and bottom and the white sun in the
middle.
The image in Album is rather close to 9:14 instead of the indicated 2:3. This
flag is apparently a new one (introduced when?), and as it does not appear in the
Flaggenbuch I can only speculate on the construction sheet from the Album. I made
it swallow-tailed half the hoist indented and distance between the fly tips 2/3
of hoist. No doubt the edge stripes are as wide as in the higher rank flags (1/11
of hoist). Also, the sun is similarly set in the middle between the hoist and the
top of fly indentation. The sun diameter (together with rays) can't be 2/3 of hoist,
as in admiral's flags, but setting it to 2/3 of the flag vertical size at the center-point
of the sun makes it fairly similar to the Album image. However, the sun in this
image is just as high as in the other rank flags shown in Album - though this is
in disagreement with the Flaggenbuch - it may be possible explanation.
Željko Heimer, 6 February 2003
Battle Fleet Leader was adopted in 1958 de facto and in early 1986 de jure.
Akira Oyo, 01 April 2014
![[Senior Officer Afloat Rank Flag]](../images/t/tw~snoff.gif)
2:3
image by Miles Li, 31 March 2014
The senior officer rank flag would be the same as
the Commodore, except for the narrow red stripe along the bottom edge.
It was was unchanged and includes the red stripe same as the Vice-Admiral
but is swallowtail/forked.
Eugene Baldwin, 10 December 1998
Blue swallow-tailed flag with white sun in the middle and red stripe along the
bottom.
The same pattern as the Commodore's flag, the stripe at bottom as usual 1/11
of hoist wide
Željko Heimer, 6 February 2003
It was adopted on August 1st, 1912 and still flown on ROC Naval ships.
Akira Oyo, 31 March 2014
![[Taiwanese Naval Captain Rank Flag]](../images/t/tw^cptno.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 12 July 2014
This flag is meant to be flown on land (like the similar-looking Army/Marine/Air
Force rank flags), but not on vessels.
Miles Li, 28 March 2004
![[Taiwanese Naval Captain Rank Flag]](../images/t/tw^cptn.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 12 July 2014
Flaggenbuch (Flg.B.). Bearbeitet und
herausgegeben vom Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine. Abgesclossen am 1. December 1939
Album des pavillons nationaux et des
marques distinctives / National flags and distinctive markings
