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Historical flag flown by Irish merchant vessels

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Green Ensign


Use	Civil ensign
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	British Merchant Navy
Design	Green with the Union Jack occupying one quarter of the field and placed in the canton and a harp in the fly.

The Green Ensign (Irish: An Meirge Uaine) is a historical flag flown by some Irish merchant vessels from the 17th century to the early 20th century. The flag consists of a green field with a golden Irish harp and a canton containing either St George's Cross or a version of the Union Jack.

This flag has appeared in these historical flag plates:

1685 Downman's Flag Chart
17th century A New Table of all the Ships, Collors or Ensings, in the Wholl Water World Newly Eneressed and Amende and all falts or Errors Corrected Never befor thytim brought to Light
1700 Len's Flag Chart
c. 1700 Table des Pavillons quel on arbore dans toutes les Parties du Monde Connu (Peter Schenk the Elder)
early 18th century: A new table of all the names of the principal parts and rigging of a man of war
1772 French Encyclopédie
1783 Bowles's Universal Display of the Naval Flags of all Nations
1799 Flags of all Nations
1848 Flaggen Aller Seefahrenden Nationen
1868 Johnson's new chart of national emblems
1889 Drawings of Flags of All Nations - British Admiralty
1917 National Geographic Flag Book

Gallery

Sledge flag used in the Arctic by Henry Kellett during his 1852–1854 search for Franklin's lost expedition
Sledge flag used in Antarctica by Patrick Keohane during the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913)

References

^ "Irish green ensign - National Maritime Museum".
"Nieuwe Tafel van alle de Scheeps Vlaggen des Gehele Water-Waerelds op Nieus Vermeerdert en Verbeeterdt COLLBN Port 144 N 151 | Digital Collections".
"Table des Pavillons quel on arbore dans toutes les Parties du Monde Connu, Consernant la Marine... | Royal Museums Greenwich". www.rmg.co.uk.
"A new table of all the names of the principal parts and rigging of a man of war". www.loc.gov.
Gerard Donaghy (28 May 2023). "Royal Navy museum buys sledge flag of explorer and 'proud Irishman' Henry Kellett". The Irish Post. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
"Keohane's sledging flag, sewn and embroidered by him in the hut at Cape Evans, and carried by him on the expedition". Christie's. Retrieved 9 January 2025.

External links

Green Ensign at FOTW site

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