Greece: Pilot and Port Captain

Last modified: 2006-05-27 by ivan sache
Keywords: pilot | cross (white) | anchor (blue) | port captain |
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• Pilot's flag
• Port Captain's flag

See also:

• Greece

Pilot's flag

The last release of Album des Pavillons [pay00] does not show a specific flag for a pilot. However, a specific pilot's flag did exist in the past.

Pilot flag, c. 1990 - Image by Željko Heimer, 11 October 2001

Album des Pavillons, edition 1995 [pie95], shows the pilot's flag as blue, in proportion 2:3, with a white cross and a white borderfollows the same white cross.

Pilot flag, c. 1935 - Image by Ivan Sache, 11 October 2001

Flaggenbuch [neu92] shows a similar flag, but in proportion 9:11. The specification give the width of the white border as 2/9 of the flag height and the width of the white cross as 1/9 of the flag height.

Pilot flag, c. 1915 - Image by Phil Nelson, 11 October 2001

The flag shown in National Geographic [gmc17] has a larger border and a thinner cross.

Pilot flag, c. 1924 - Image by Phil Nelson, 11 October 2001

Webster's New International Dictionary [wbs24] shows a completely different flag, blue with a large yellow border.

Željko Heimer, Phil Nelson & Ivan Sache, 11 October 2001

Port Captain's flag

Port Captain's flag - Image by Željko Heimer, 11 October 2001

Album des Pavillons, edition 1995 [pie95], shows the port Captain's flag similar to the pilot's flag, but with an anchor inscribed in a blue circle placed in the middle of the flag. The flag is no longer shown in the next release of Album des Pavillons.

Željko Heimer, 11 October 2001

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