Red Ensign - Wikipedia
The Red Ensign or "Red Duster" is the civil ensign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is one of the British ensigns, and it is used either plain or defaced with …
Canadian Red Ensign - Wikipedia
The ensign is the Red Ensign of the United Kingdom, embellished with the Arms of Canada as a shield in the bottom right quarter. The shield is divided into four quarters, consisting of the …
British ensign - Wikipedia
The Red Ensign is the correct flag to be worn as courtesy flag by foreign private vessels in United Kingdom waters. Merchant vessels from British overseas territories and Crown dependencies …
Who can fly the Red Ensign and where should it be flown?
Oct 19, 2020 — What is the red ensign? Ensigns allow immediate identification of the nationality and country of registry of a vessel on the water. They encapsulate a practice that has been the …
Hoist Up the Flag: The British Red Ensign - Colonial Williamsburg
Sep 21, 2020 — View of the “Red Ensign,” “Union Flag,” “Union Jack,” and others in proper use from Bowles’ “A new table of all the names of the principal parts and rigging of a man of war.”
Canadian Red Ensign - The Canadian Encyclopedia
Feb 7, 2006 — The Canadian Red Ensign was the de facto Canadian national flag from 1868 until 1965. It was based on the ensign flown by British merchant ships since 1707. The three …
Red Ensign Group
The Red Ensign (or "Red Duster" as it is occasionally known) is a flag that originated in the early 17th century as a British ensign flown by the Royal Navy and was later adopted specifically by …
The history of the National Flag of Canada - Canada.ca
While it was officially a naval flag used by Canadian ships starting in the 1890s, the Canadian Red Ensign — a combination of the Union Jack and the shield of Canada — had been used …
United Kingdom: red ensign - CRW Flags
Jul 19, 2014 — The Red Ensign. For the flying of ensigns, the law is as follows: Subject to subsection (2) below, a British ship, other than a fishing vessel, shall hoist the red ensign or …
Former Canadian flag, the Red Ensign, gets new, darker life as far ...
Jul 10, 2017 — But the Red Ensign, a variation of which Canadian troops fought under in both world wars, has recently taken on a darker symbolism, adopted as Canada’s equivalent of the …