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Sandefjord, Vestfold (Norway)

image by Tomislav Šipek, 22 October 2015

The Flag
Wimpel
Coat of Arms

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The Flag

Here is flag and coat of arms of Sandefjord.
Source: https://www.google.hr/maps/@59.1283823,10.2190633,3a,15.1y,91.87h,104.96t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sRwbE48QeLd7wRdmSxCnevA!2e0?hl=hr
Wimpel of Sandefjord (Google Street View)
Note: Flag is actually my interpretation of the wimpel.
Tomislav Šipek, 22 October 2015

Wimpel

image by Tomislav Šipek, 22 October 2015

Coat of Arms

image by Tomislav Šipek, 22 October 2015

The coat of arms was approved with the royal resolution of 9 May 1914 and drawn by Andreas Bloch. [c2j87] mention no flag and it may be a later invention of local administration. As usual for the older coat of arms [c2j87] provides no offcial blazon. The English blazon may be something like: or a Viking ship sable with a sail paly gules and argent under a whale embowed.
The Viking ship displayed in the shield is meant to represent the Gokstadskipet - the Viking ship that was excavated in 1880 making an international archaeological sensation at the time. (See e.g. http://www.gule.tv/2015/03/gokstadskipets-gule-og-svarte-skjold.html) The whale states the leading role of Sandefjord in whaling industry - that was the major town's industry since 1905.
Apparently, Sanderfjord was recently joined with Stokke and Andebu municipalities and there is consideration of adopting a new joined coat of arms, see e.g. the presentation http://www.sandefjord.kommune.no/globalassets/nye-sandefjord/rapporter-etc/oslosamling_kommunevapen-en-presentasjon.pdf,
http://www.sandefjord.kommune.no/globalassets/nye-sandefjord/fellesnemnda/komiteer/kommunevapen/15-05-28-temakomite-kommunevapen.pdf,
also http://www.sandefjord.kommune.no/Politikk-og-innsyn/kommunesammenslaing/siste-nytt/
(although this link may change soon)
I don't think that these and other links at the municipal site mention anything on the history of the current flag, but I may have not brawsed long enough.
Željko Heimer, 26 October 2015