Yachts' Ensign 1945-1977 (Spain)

Ensign for Recreational Vessels, Pabellón para Embarcaciones de Recreo

Last modified: 2005-11-26 by santiago dotor
Keywords: ensign: yacht | crown: royal open (blue) |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors

2:3 | stripes 1+2+1 |
by Luis Miguel Arias, exported to GIF by Santiago Dotor
Flag adopted December 1945, abolished 21st January 1977

• Description

See also:

• Historical Flags 1945-1977 (Spain)
• Yachts' Ensign after 1977 (Spain)
• Spain

According to Calvo and Grávalos 1983, a 1943 [actually 1945] Decree modified the 1875 yachts' ensign (or recreational vessels) by changing the crown to an imperial one [i.e. the coronel or coronet of the Catholic Kings] and specifying this should be all blue coloured. There is no image of the ensign in Calvo and Grávalos 1983 (...).

Santiago Dotor, 25 June 1999

The 1945-1977 ensign showed the same coronet (coronel) as in the 1945 coat-of-arms though coloured light blue and with shades in dark blue. Sources: Dreyer 1988, pp. 41-42, ills. 40-42; Dreyer 1991, p. 32 (which shows a photograph of a flag chart in Gran Enciclopedia del Mar, 2nd edition, Ediciones Garriga S.A., Barcelona 1968).

Santiago Dotor, 12 December 2001