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Greek common flag
Greek merchant flag
Greek war flag
P. 311: “The royal ensign for ships of war of the kingdom of Greece consists in nine horizontal stripes of equal width, of which five are light blue and four white, the outer ones being blue, and the others alternately blue and white. The flag is twenty five feet long, and eighteen feet broad. In the upper corner the royal arms are introduced, consisting of a white equilateral cross on a field of light blue : in the centre of the cross is displayed the shield of the royal house, containing the thirty-two blue and white lozenges of Bavaria, surmounted by a royal crown. The arms are to occupy one third of the length of the flag, and five stripes of its breadth, so that underneath are only four perfect stripes, viz. two white and two blue. The pennant is light blue, sixty feet long, and with a white cross in the corner nearest the mast. The national ensign for the merchant service is the same as that of ships of war, but without the royal arms in the centre of the cross, and merchant vessels are prohibited from using the pennant. (Royal ordonnance dated Nauplia, 4/16 April, 1833.)
Source
Frederick Strong. Greece as a kingdom; or, a statistical description of that country. From the arrival of king Otho, in 1833, down to the present time. London, 1842.
J.W. Norie/S.J. Hobbs. Three Hundred and Six Illustrations of the Maritime Flaggs of all nations. 1848.
