Romania - Rank Flags Since 1989

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• Minister of National Defence
• Chief of General Staff
• Chief of Naval Staff
• Deputy Chief of Naval Staff
• Fleet or Flotilla Commander
• Major Naval Unit Commander
• Naval Unit Commander

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Minister of National Defence

A square national tricolour with with a white letter M in the middle of the blue stripe. According to Calvin Paige Herring a similar flag was used during the royal era (since the mid-19th century?) with minor differences in the rendering of the letter M. It was dropped in 1952, but it is not clear what was used until 1965 when a "white ensign" with a red star was adopted. The M flag was readopted in early 1990's (when?), now with a somewhat different letter. If Flaggenbuch (1939) and Album des Pavillons (2000) both have valid representations of the letter prescribed, the difference is in width of the lines (1939 is "fatter"). Also in Flaggenbuch the central lower point of the letter reaches almost (but not quite) to the base of the letter, while in Album it reaches only about the half way down. Flaggenbuch has this
point "sharp" (i.e. triangular) and Album has it horizontally "cut off". Of course, either of the two sources might not be very precise about these details, and after all, if may well be that such "minor" differences were never explicitly prescribed and are quite probably ignored in practice.
Zeljko Heimer, 21 December 2002

Chief of the General Staff

A square national tricolour with with four white five-pointed stars one above other in the blue stripe. The flag appears to be from the 1990's, too. Pre-WWII Romanian flags did not "reach" a four-star pattern, while it appears that no such flags were used in Communist period.
Zeljko Heimer, 21 December 2002

Chief of Naval Staff

A light blue flag with the national flag in the canton, a diagonally set black-outlined anchor in the fly upper quarter and four yellow five-pointed stars in a horizontal line in the lower half (somewhat off-set to the fly). This and subsequent light blue flags were adopted after 1990 (when?). Pre WWII flags for these positions were adopted only on the eve of the War, and were abandoned after it. No adequate counterparts from the communist period were reported (or I am not aware of them, at least).
Zeljko Heimer, 21 December 2002

Deputy Chief of Naval Staff

Light blue flag with the national flag in canton, a diagonally set black lined anchor in fly upper quarter and three yellow five-pointed stars in horizontal line in lower half (somewhat off-set to the fly).
Zeljko Heimer, 21 December 2002

Fleet or Flotilla Commander

Light blue flag with the national flag in canton, a diagonally set black lined anchor in fly upper quarter and two yellow five-pointed stars in horizontal line in lower half (somewhat off-set to the fly).
Zeljko Heimer, 21 December 2002

Major Naval Unit Commander

Light blue flag with the national flag in canton, a diagonally set black lined anchor in fly upper quarter and one yellow five-pointed star in lower half (somewhat off-set to the fly).
Zeljko Heimer, 21 December 2002

Naval Unit Commander

A triangular light blue flag with the national tricolour near the hoist in the central part and in the fly a black outlined anchor, set vertically. Apparently the width of the anchor relative to its height is greater than it is in the previous set of flags where the anchor is oblique.
Zeljko Heimer, 22 December 2002