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Turkey: Naval command pennants

Masthead pennant
Seniority pennant

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Masthead pennant

Turkish masthead pennant - Image by Željko Heimer, 24 April 2003

According to Album des Pavillons [pay00], the masthead pennant is a red triangular flag with a white crescent and star near the hoist. Album does not give the ratio of the pennant, but shows it approximately 1:20. Flaggenbuch (1939) [neu92] provides four official sizes, that are probably still valid, with distance to the Mondumkreises vom Liek* indicated, as follows:

10 x 180 cm; Moon at 17 cm;
12 x 460 cm; 30 cm;
14 x 640 cm; 48 cm;
18 x 1280 cm; 65 cm.

Accordingly, the ratio of the pennant is from 1:18 to just over 1:70.

Željko Heimer, 17 April 2003

* Liek here stands obviously for what we would call the hoist. The original image showes a kind of crossbar from which the pennant is hoisted. Anyway, the distance is, I suppose between the hoist and the point of the crescent closest to the hoist (and not the center of the moon or the center of the entire white symbol.
Mondumkreis is indeed the minimum circle within which the crescent is contained.

Željko Heimer & Santiago Dotor, 24 April 2003

Seniority pennant

Turkish seniority pennant, as shown in Album des Pavillons (left) and in Flaggenbuch (right) - Images by Željko Heimer, 17 April 2003

The seniority pennant is a red triangular flag with a white bomb placed in the middle of the flag. The representation of the bomn is slightly different in Album des Pavillons [pay00] and Flaggenbuch (1939) [neu92].

Željko Heimer, 17 April 2003

The images in Album are taken from BR20 (1958 release), confirmed by Album des Pavillons (1990 and 1923 releases). The design of the bomb was also confirmed by an illustration in a special page of Naval Forces (December 1997) on the Turkish Navy.

Armand Noël du Payrat, 18 April 2003

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