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The Chilean Navy’s standard is blue with the arms of the navy (a blue shield bordered in gold and ensigned with a gold naval crown, bearing an upright anchor, also gold). Source: photo in Alejandro Preneta: La Armada de Chile (Boulogne: Delroisse, 1985): 91.
Joe McMillan, 16 Feb 2002
The Album 2000 [pay00] shows a 2:3 blue flag with a white star, inscribed in a circle of diameter 1/3rd of the flag height at hoist. I remember having seen TV images of an historical Chilean sailing ship owned by the Navy. The hoisted jack was definitively rectangular.
Željko Heimer, 09 Apr 2001
The same flag is described as Yacht flag.The question is — are this two one and the same, the image being somewhat distorted, or is there really a special flag for Chile to be used on private yachts?
Željko Heimer, 01 Dec 1999
The square flag with a white star is shown in Flaggenbuch [neu39] as naval jack (Gösch der Kriegschiffe). Star is inscribed in a circle of diameter one half of the flag side. Album 1995 [pie95] still showed the square version.
Željko Heimer, 09 Apr 2001
The 1939 Flaggenbuch [neu39] shows the jack to be square, but 1926 Flaggenbuch [d9e26] shows it again rectangular. Could it be that in mid-20th century the jack was indeed square and the reverted back to the rectangular form?
Željko Heimer, 13 Dec 2005
Triangular pennant white over red with blue hoist containing a white five-pointed star. There’s no indication in Album 2000 [pay00] on what is the prescribed ratio of the flag (looks like 1:18) nor how long the blue field is… The blue field is much longer in the 1926 Flaggenbuch [d9e26], for about the third of the length.
Željko Heimer, 15 Dec 2005
Black anchor topped with a five-pointed star, as shown in the Album 2000 [pay00].
Željko Heimer, 15 Dec 2005
The naval air arm was formed in 1919 as Aviación Naval de Chile (Naval Aviation) to be merged into the new Fuerza Aérea Nacional de Chile (Airforce) in 1930 and separated again in 1953. According to the book [cos98] the naval air arm used, from 1921, the same roundel apart of a white diagonal anchor replacing the star on the rudder (unfortunally, [cos98] gives wrong date as there was no naval air arm in 1930-1953). At the restoration of the Naval Air arm in 1953 as Aviación Naval de la Armada de Chile, the same roundel was used.
Dov Gutterman, 13 Jun 2004
At the restoration of the Naval Air arm in 1953 as Aviación Naval de la Armada de Chile, a white anchor with star above on red was adopted as tail insignia (as seen in these two photos); seems that sometimes there is no red background (as in this photo).
Dov Gutterman, 13 Jun 2004
The Air Force Fin Flash is a white star on a blue square. Airplanes under the command of the Army use a white star on a red square. The Naval Aviation fin flash is a black anchor ensigned by a black star.
Alex Garofolo, 3 Feb 2016
In the 1926 Flaggenbuch [d9e26] the flags of Chile are given almost the same as in the modern Album 2000 [pay00] with a notable distinction — the shade of blue is considerably lighter. However, since the 1939 Flaggenbuch [neu39] turns the blue into the dark one already, I am ready to believe that this was just an other imprecission — not unusual for 1926 issue — opposed to unheard of for 1939…
Željko Heimer, 16 Oct 2005
I found the following terms in the glossary on the Chilean Navy’s website http://www.armada.cl/:
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