Fragment of a Ship Flag

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1889-83-24

Large fragment of a ship flag, blue with a yellow cross and with a swallowtail fly.

This Swedish flag was captured in the Battle of the Sound on 8 November 1658 by Lieutenant Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam (1610-1665).

T. Lenk, ‘Flaggan, landets symbol’, Historiska Bilder 2 (1949), pp. 112-40; E. Gustafsson, Rikets vapen och flagga, Stockholm 1960; M. van den Brandhof, Vlaggen, vaandels en standaarden van het Rijksmuseum. Een geïllustreerde catalogus, Amsterdam 1977, no. 198

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Fragment of a Ship Flag, Karlberg Palace, c. 1658', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245343