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Naval Rank Flags 1931-1939 (Spain)

Insignias

Introduction
Navy Order of 5th May 1931
Minister of the Navy (Ministro de Marina)
Captain General of the Navy (Capitán General de la Armada)
Admiral (Almirante)
Vice Admiral (Vicealmirante)
Vice Admiral not in command (Vicealmirante subordinado)
Rear Admiral (Contralmirante)
Rear Admiral not in command (Contralmirante subordinado)
Captain commanding a Division (Capitán de Navío con mando de División)
Commander or Lieutenant Commander commanding a Division (Capitán de Fragata o Corbeta con mando de División)
Senior Officer Pennant (Comandante más Antiguo en Reunión de Buques or Jefe de Bahía)

See also:

Introduction

The Order on flags of 5th May 1931, passed days after the Second Spanish Republic had been proclaimed, kept the 1914 system of rank flags —which is basically the current one— with anchors and blue and red discs, the main changes being:

the use as background of the Republican red-yellow-dark purple colours in proportions 1+1+1 instead of the previous red-yellow-red in proportions 1+2+1, and
the diameter of the discs, which was now 1/4 of the hoist (this may have been already modified in a yet unidentified 1923 Decree).

All the dimensional data is not explicit in the Order, but the result of measuring the images included in the Order and comparing the inferred proportions with the explicit dimensional data in the 1945 and later Decrees.

Though mentioned in the first paragraph of the Order, the commissioning pennant (gallardete) does not appear in the graphical annex to the Order.

Luis Miguel Arias, translated by Santiago Dotor, 9 May 2002

All these flags, together with the presidential and cabinet ministers' flags, are insignias or command flags, another group being that of the distintivos or rank flags not indicating command (perhaps I ought to call these distinguishing flags).

Santiago Dotor, 9 May 2002