Serbia and Montenegro: Naval rank flags

Part 1. Upper ranks

Last modified: 2006-07-22 by ivan sache
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• Legislation
• Commander of the Navy
• Commander of the Fleet
• Admiral of the Fleet
• Admiral
• Vice Admiral
• Rear Admiral

See also:

• Serbia and Montenegro
• Serbia and Montenegro: Naval ensigns and jack
• Serbia and Montenegro: Naval rank flags, part 2 (Lower ranks)
• Socialist Yugoslavia: Naval rank flags (1959-1959) - Part 1: Upper ranks
• Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918-1929): Rank flags

Legislation

• Law about the war flags of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The law was adopted on 31 May 1993 and 14 June 1993, in House of the Republics and House of the Citizens of the Federal Assembly, respectively, and proclaimed by the "Decree on proclamation of the law ..." of the same date. The law became valid on 26 June 1993, and the use of the flags should start with the date when the law on coat of arms became valid.

There is a list of previous laws that this one superseded, and they are in fact laws of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY):

• Law on war flags of the SFRY and rank and command flags, Official gazette of SFRY 22/73
• Law on the vessel commanders' flags and pennants of the naval forces of the Yugoslav Army, Official gazette SFRY, 46/75.

• Decision about the command flags and rank flags of the navy vessels of the Yugoslavian army, of the 19th January 1995.

Željko Heimer & Pascal Vagnat, 29 January 1999

Commander of the Navy

Flag of the Commander of the Navy - Image by Željko Heimer, 25 April 2001

The flag of the Commander of the Navy is a square white flag with a red anchor and a yellow rope and a border of blue-white-red-white (alternatively) rectangles.
The text of the Decision mentions only a stylized anchor, and the rope is only to be seen (in yellow) in the annex.

Pascal Vagnat, 24 January 1999

Commander of the Fleet

Flag of the Commander of the Fleet - Image by Željko Heimer, 25 April 2001

The flag of the Commander of the Fleet is a white square flag with a blue anchor and a yellow rope and the border as described above.

Pascal Vagnat, 24 January 1999

Admiral of the Fleet

Flag of the Admiral of the Fleet - Image by Željko Heimer, 25 April 2001

The flag of the Admiral of the Fleet is square, horizontally divided blue-white-red with a yellow anchor in the canton and a border as described above.

Pascal Vagnat, 24 January 1999

Admiral of the Fleet here is the rank of a "five-star Admiral", which has nothing to do with the rank of Commander of the Fleet shown above.

Željko Heimer, 25 April 2001

Admiral

Flag of an Admiral - Image by Željko Heimer, 25 April 2001

The flag of an Admiral is a square white flag with a yellow anchor in the canton and a border as described above.

Pascal Vagnat, 24 January 1999

Vice Admiral

Flag of a Vice Admiral - Image by Željko Heimer, 25 April 2001

The flag of a Vice Admiral is a square red flag with a yellow anchor in the canton and a border as described above.

Pascal Vagnat, 24 January 1999

Rear Admiral

Flag of a Rear Admiral - Image by Željko Heimer, 25 April 2001

The flag of a Rear Admiral is a square blue flag with a yellow anchor in the canton and a border as described above.

Pascal Vagnat, 24 January 1999