Fragment of a Ship Flag

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1889-83-18

Fragment of the upper hoist of a blue ensign, blue with a white canton with a red cross (St George’s cross).

This is an English blue ensign from the period c. 1630-1707.

W.G. Perrin, ‘British Naval Ensigns’, The Mariner’s Mirror 1 (1911), no. 7, pp. 167-72; M. van den Brandhof, Vlaggen, vaandels en standaarden van het Rijksmuseum. Een geïllustreerde catalogus, Amsterdam 1977, no. 122; T. Wilson, Flags at Sea, London 1986, pp. 18, 25-26, fig. 25c

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Fragment of a Ship Flag, England, c. 1630 - c. 1707', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245338