Mexico - Navy

Last modified: 2005-10-22 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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• Details and specifications on Navy ensigns and distinctive flags
• Navy colors (war flags, standards and guidons)
  • War flag for units, facilities, schools and dependencies of the Navy (sample)
  • Standard for units, establishments and dependencies of the Navy (sample)
  • Navy guidons (sample)
• Naval Aircraft Marking
  • Present-day naval aircraft marking
  • Old naval aircraft marking
• Mexican Navy ensigns in practice

See:

• Army / Defensa Nacional

• Secretaría de Marina-Armada de México
• High rank flag ensigns
  • Supreme Commander (President of the United Mexican States)
  • Vice-president of the Republic
  • Secretary of Navy
  • Secretary of National Defense
  • Secretary of War and Navy
  • Chief of the Department of Navy
  • Under-secretary of Navy
  • Chief of Naval Operations / Jefe de Operaciones Navales
  • Official Generals / Oficiales Generales
  • Other high rank ensigns
• Rank ensigns
  • Admirals
    • Admirals: in command, and not in command and equivalents
    • Vice-admirals: in command, and not in command and equivalents
    • Rear-admirals in command: in command, and not in command and equivalents
  • Captains
    • Captains in command
    • Commanders in command
    • Lieutenant Commanders in command
  • Commodores: in command and not in command
• Gallardete Nacional de Mando / Masthead Pennant
• Senior Officer afloat
• Civilian Authorities' distinctive flags
  • Secretaries of State / Secretarios de Estado
  • Governors of State / Gobernadores de Estado
  • Under-secretaries of State / Subsecretarios de Estado
  • Ambassadors and other plenipotentiary ministers / Embajador
  • General Consuls, consuls, and auxiliary ministers / Cónsules
  • Auxiliary Ministers / Ministros auxiliares y representantes de los titulares de las ramas diplomáticas
• Marine Corps
  • Major General / General de división
  • Brigadier General / General de brigada
  • General / General Brigadier
• Torrotito de Proa / Naval Jack

• 1912-1916 Mexican Navy - 1912 General Ordinance of the Navy

• Mexico - Merchant marine
• Mexico - General index
• Mexico

Details Detalles	Specifications Especificaciones		Graphic Dibujo
Srectariat of Navy's emblem	1994-present	It shall be in the official colors and incribed within an imaginary circle whose diameter is 75% the third part of the flag's width.	By Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 1 September 2002.
	1911-1994	There is no known decree or rule difines the size and shape of the emblem used on ensigns and distinctive flags. Generally, in this page, the emblem covers the third part of the stripe where it is placed.
Stripes	1911-present	The stripes have the colors of the National Flag. Each stripe shall occupy the third part of the ensign's or distinctive flag's hight or widht, and when the case. it shall be on the green stripe where the stars, anchors or any other emblem shall be place.	By Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 1 September 2002.
Stars	1994-present	They shall be white, five pointed, and place on the green stripe. They shall be inscribed within an imaginary circle whose diameter is 10% the length of such stripe.	By Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 1 September 2002.
	1911-1994	Star features for ensigs and distinctive flag of this period are not, excepting in the color, specified in any law, rule or ordinance. In order to standarize the size and shape with the present ones, the flags shown in this pages match with the features supplied by the 1994 and 2000 decrees.

Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán September 1, 2002.

• War flag for units, facilities, schools and dependencies of the Navy (sample)
• Standard for units, establishments and dependencies of the Navy (sample)
• Navy guidons (sample)

War flag for units, facilities, schools and dependencies of the Navy (sample)

1:1 (90cm:90cm)
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 2005.

Standard for units, establishments and dependencies of the Navy (sample)

1:1 (90cm:90cm); golden fringe (9 cm.)
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 2005.

Navy guidons (sample)

1:1
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, June 16, 1998

• Present-day naval aircraft marking
• Old naval aircraft marking

Present-day naval aircraft marking

by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, April 20, 2002

Old naval aircraft marking

by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, July 10, 2001

I just returned from a week-long Caribbean cruise. I offer some of the meager flag spottings from the trip, among them Mexican Navy flags.

At San Miguel, on the island of Cozumel, the M/S Carnival Miracle tied up directly across the pier from the destroyer ARM Comodoro Manuel Azueta (D111) of the Mexican Navy. While tied up, the Azueta flew the Mexican ensign at the gaff, the Gallardete Nacional de Mando (national command pennant), or commissioning pennant at the head of the mast, and the two-star pennant of a commander (capitán de fragata) in command at the inboard starboard signal halyard. No flag at the stern or jack at the bow.

The stars on the commander's pennant, however, were not oriented with one point upward, as on Juan Manuel Gabino's "GIF", but with one point oriented horizontally toward the fly. Also, all three flags were lowered at sunset, contrary to the regulation quoted by Juan Manuel which requires the gallardete de mando to be flown 24 hours a day.

A naval station just south of the cruise ship pier flew the ensign at the gaff of its flagmast with the three star pennant of a captain (Capitán de navío) in command at the right hand crosstree (right side as one would face the water). I was not close enough to see the orientation of those stars.

The pier in the center of the waterfront has at its shore end a flagpole that flew a very large Mexican national flag until sunset-- at least 6 or 7 meters hoist, I would guess. No other flag sightings there of any particular novelty--the Mexican ensign on all the local harbor boats, of course, as one would expect.

Joseph McMillan, July 6, 2005.