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Turkey: Naval rank ensigns - General officers

The "bomb"
Admiral of the Fleet
Admiral
Vice Admiral of a Squadron
Vice Admiral
Rear Admiral

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The "bomb"

The basic charge of several Turkish rank ensigns is a "bomb" (fide Album des Pavillons [pay00]). A bomb is a kind of 20-pointed star with points of different length, with the sequence <long-small-medium-small-long> repeated four times.

The graphic construction of the bomb is very detailed in Flaggenbuch (1939) [neu92], with the following construction details:

diameter of the long rays: 40;
diameter of the medium rays: 34;
diameter of the small rays: 24.

The inner diameter of the bomb is not indicated, it could be 20. It seems that a small ray points upwards, followed clockwise by a medium ray, then by a small one and a long one, etc..

Comparatively, the bomb in Album seems to be somewhat bigger, slightly differently designed, and somewhat skewed toward the edges of the flag.

The bombs in the swallow-tailed flags in Album are relatively bigger than those in square flags, whereas in Flaggenbuch all the bombs are of the same size.

Therefore, we have decided to show the flags as they are represented in these two sources.

Ivan Sache & Zeljko Heimer, 16 April 2003

The images in the Album are taken from BR20 (1958 release), confirmed by Album des Pavillons (1990 and 1923 releases). The design of the bomb was also confirmed by an illustration in a special page of Naval Forces (December 1997) on the Turkish Navy.

Armand Noël du Payrat, 18 April 2003

Admiral of the Fleet

by Zeljko Heimer

The flag is square, red with five white bombs, one in each corner and one in the middle.

Source: Album des Pavillons [pay00]

by Zeljko Admiral

Flaggenbuch (1939) [neu92] shows a similar flag for the Great Admiral, with the following construction details:

flag size 140
distance from the geormetrical center of the flag to geometrical center of a bomb: 55;
construction of the bomb, see above.

Zeljko Heimer, 16 April 2003

Admiral

by Zeljko Heimer

The flag is square, red with four white bombs, one in each corner.

Source: Album des Pavillons [pay00]

by Zeljko Heimer

Source: Flaggenbuch (1939) [neu92]. The construction details are the same as for the flag of the Great Admiral.

Zeljko Heimer, 16 April 2003

Vice Admiral of a Squadron

by Zeljko Heimer

The flag is square, red with three white bombs, placed one over two.

Source: Album des Pavillons [pay00]

by Zeljko Heimer

Flaggenbuch (1939) [neu92] shows the same flag, but as a Vice Admiral's flag. The construction details are the same as for the flag of an Admiral, the upper bomb being placed on the vertical median of the flag.

Zeljko Heimer.18 April 2003

Vice Admiral

by Zeljko Heimer

The flag is square, red with two white bombs, placed vertically in the middle of the flag.

Source: Album des Pavillons [pay00]

by Zeljko Heimer

Flaggenbuch (1939) [neu92] shows the same flag, but as a Rear Admiral's flag.

Zeljko Heimer.18 April 2003

Rear Admiral

by Zeljko Heimer

The flag is square, red with one white bomb placed in the middle of the flag.

Source: Album des Pavillons [pay00]

by Zeljko Heimer

Flaggenbuch (1939) [neu92] shows the same flag, but as a 1st class Commodore's flag.

Zeljko Heimer.18 April 2003