Blue Ensign

These are known as the red, white, and blue ensigns respectively.

Both are blue ensigns defaced with the proposed coats of arms.

Several yacht clubs are also entitled to fly blue ensigns defaced by their club badge.

The flag of Tuvalu and that of Fiji are also defaced sky blue ensigns.

Dance ordered the brig Ganges and the four lead ships to hoist blue ensigns, while the rest of the convoy raised red ensigns.

Many Canadian veterans' organisations still use the original White and Blue Ensigns unofficially as symbols of history and heritage.

On each wing of the big American automobile fluttered two pennants, the green and blue ensigns of the Royal Saudi Naval Forces.

The flag of Australia and those of its states as well as the flag of New Zealand are defaced blue ensigns.

By 1630 the white ensign consisted of simply a white field, with a small St George's cross in the canton, which was consistent with the red and blue ensigns of the time.

Outside the nautical sphere, there are some flags which are modelled on the red, white, and blue ensigns, but which use more unusual colours, e.g. the sky blue of the Royal Air Force ensign.

British government departments use a variety of blue ensigns defaced in the fly with the department badge, and colonial governments use blue ensigns defaced with the colonial badge.

By the system of national flags then in use in British ships, this implied that the ships with blue ensigns were warships attached to the squadron of Admiral Rainier, while the others were merchant ships under their protection.

In 1904, the crown of the Blue Ensign was replaced with the Great Seal of Newfoundland (having been given royal approval in 1827) and the British Parliament designated Newfoundland Red and Blue ensigns as official flags specifically for Newfoundland.

It was not until the Newfoundland National Flag Act of 1931 that the Newfoundland parliament officially adopted the Union Jack as the national flag of Newfoundland and re-affirmed the red and blue ensigns as official flags for marine identification.

Dance formed his ships into a line of battle and ordered three or four of them to raise blue ensigns and the others red, giving the impression of a heavy escort by implying that the ships with blue ensigns were warships.

In the first half of the 20th century, Blue Ensigns for each province of Canada often appeared in charts of "all the world's flags", but these flags were just fantasies of the artists who drew the charts, and then copied by other artists putting together similar charts.