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Anguillans seem to regard the “Three
Dolphins” flag as their “real” flag, and it
tends to be flown much more frequently than the official flag, especially
in private residences, shops, etc.
Ron Lahav, 23 Feb 2005
On 1 February 1980 Anguilla
became a separate crown
colony and later adopted the blue ensign with the
former flag as a sort of
badge.
Mark Sensen, 26 Oct 1996
The current flag — blue ensign with dolphin badge — was
adopted on May 30th,
1990.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 10 Jul 1999
A previous Governor of Anguilla, Mr. Brian Canty, suggested a new flag
and drew sketches which were sent to London for approval by Her Majesty the
Queen. The new flag, which was first hoisted on
30 May,
1990, is a blue
ensign with a Union Jack in the top left corner and a shield on the right
side which shows three orange dolphins on a white background with a
turquoise-blue base. The design thus incorporates affiliation to Britain and
the Anguilla Three Dolphins flag.
Dov Gutterman, 02 Mar 2002, quoting from
http://www.gov.ai/flag.htm
The British Navy flag book’s Change No. 5 of 1999
[hms99a] and the current issue of
BR20 [gra00] show the badge at 13/24,
not 4/9 any more. There is no gold border to the shield as it appears on the
flag (it only appears on the seal and inside the garland of the
Governor’s flag).
The proportions of the shield, according to BR20
[gra00] should be 5/4.
The shield is straight sided until 15/26 of its depth and the
light blue occupies 4/13 of the overall size.
Christopher Southworth, 30 Apr 2005
The coat of arms of Anguilla has a
bottom stripe of light tourqoise-blue.
In the flag that stripe is light blue. The reason: the Goverment of
Anguilla could not afford the money for flags with a correct shield, as
the special shade of bluish-green would have risen the costs for the
flags. So the manufacturer decided to make the shield white and blue to
keep the costs lower.
Ralf Stelter, 10 May 1999
The Foreign and Commonwealth
Office wrote, that the blue ensign is used
in 3:5 ratio on land
and in 1:2 ratio at sea.
On land this flag is the
“unofficial” National flag, to be used
for decorative and distiguishing
purposes inside and outside Anguilla
(the official state flag is the
Union Jack).
The blue ensign
on land is not as unusual
as one might expect.
St. Vincent
used it with her
own arms as National flag on land, too.
Ralf Stelter, 25 Jul 1999
A 3:5 version of the ensign is then prescribed,
to be used in those occasions when a specific anguillan
symbol is needed (I guess this happends when the UJ is
flown standing for Britain, like in Commonwealth
meetings or during the odd british VIP official visit to
the island).
António Martins, 24 Oct 1999
Anguilla is 1:2, not 3:5. I quote BR20
[gra00]
as my authority on this one, and although it recommends
(excepting the Union Flag) 3:5 for
land flags, it also says that flags with a
Union in the canton should
(even though the Union Flag can be made
in 3:5) always be 1:2.
Christopher Southworth, 07 Dec 2004
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The official seal is the shield with a double circle around
it containing the words Anguilla: Strength and Endurance.
Gvido Petersons, 07 Nov 2000, quoting the
government website
The coat of arms of Anguilla has a bottom stripe of light
tourqoise-blue.
Ralf Stelter, 10 May 1999
The Governor’s flag has a gold edge to the shield, but
the Blue Ensign does not.
Graham Bartram, 20 Dec 2004
As I understand it, the yellow shield “border”
has a black fimbriation to delineate the shield.
Paige Herring, 25 Apr 2004
Described in Colonial Flag Badges [wee02] as
Union Flag defacement (circular configuration of design on shield within garland) also taken into use in 1990.
This is rather obscure, but I am sure that it means that the
design on the shield was enlarged to fill the whole of the circular
space within the garland, as in the Governor’s Flag on the
Anguilla web page.
David Prothero, 20 Jul 2005
The governor’s official flag comprises the Union Jack and the
Anguilla coat of arms surrounded by a laurel wreath. It is flown
at Government House when the Governor is in residence and on any
motor car or boat in which he is making an official visit. The
coat of arms uses the same dolphin design that appears on the
flag and is edged with gold.
Gvido Petersons, 07 Nov 2000, quoting the
government website
The Anguillan governor has a flag. It’s a Union Jack with a
white circle in the middle. In the circle is the white and blue
badge with the three orange dolphins. Same as on the flag image.
Inside the circle and outside of the badge are two laurel
branches that start below the badge and finish above the badge.
The tips of the branches do not touch nor do the bottoms. There
is some sort of decoration between and touching the bottoms of
the laurels, but I didn’t get close enough to see what it was.
Sally Janin, 30 July 1997
It is a normal british
oversea’s governor flag.
Armand du Payrat, 08 Dec 1999
The refered «decoration between and touching the bottoms of the
laurels» is evidently a lace of sky blue ribbon.
From the description above («Inside the circle and outside of the
badge»), it is clear that locally used flags do have the laurel
garland completely inside the disc, and not over it’s edge.
António Martins, 19 Jan 2000