Last modified: 2024-07-20 by ian macdonald
Keywords: star: 5 points (black) | ensign | canton: national flag | war ensign | navy ensign | alternative ensign | chief of naval staff | disc (black) | discs: 4 |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
image by Zoltan Horvath, 6 June 2024
The Album 2000 [pay00] says:
1. National Flag.Željko Heimer, 08 October 20012:3
Politikens Flagbook [rya00a]
just mentions a white ensign for Warships. I wonder when
the National flag is used as Millitary Ensign.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 08 October 2001
Recent (1995) photos of Ghanaian warships show St. George
cross, and national flag in canton yet French navy ship in port visit
to Tema in June 1999 reports that the Ghanaian patrol ship showed the national
flag as ensign. So, I think that both can be used as naval ensign.
Armand du Payrat, 04 April 2001
In 1995 they flew a white ensign, in 1999 they flew a
tricolor. Did they change between those dates, or are they
inconsistent?
John Ayer, 04 April 2001
The National Ensign is used as Jack:
https://www.primenewsghana.com/general-news/ghana-s-waters-a-haven-for-transit-vessels-navy.html
(archived here)
Zoltan Horvath, 6 June 2024
image by Zoltan Horvath, 6 June 2024
The Album 2000 [pay00] says:
2. Alternative Naval Ensign.British influenced white ensign with red St. George cross throughout and with the national flag in canton. Where is this ratio from?5:8
According to [smi75], the cross width is
1/9th of the hoist. But are the proportions really 2:3? I’d expect
≅9:15…
António Martins, 22 February 1998
Janes’s Fighting Ships 2000
[jfs] shows the
Ghanaian Navy consisting of four patrol boats,
two each of two classes. The two photographs,
dated 1998 and 1999, both show the white ensign
with cross, one flying at the ensign staff on
the stern and the other on the starboard
yardarm. The electronic 2001 edition of
[jfs] has two
new pictures of the Ghanaian Navy, both dated
2000. Again, both patrol boats are flying the
white ensign.
Joe McMillan, 04 April 2001
The Naval Ensign is also similar to
that of Britain, as are those of many
Commonwealth countries, but in this case it has the proportions 2:3,
and has the Ghanaian flag in the canton.
Santiago Dotor, 23 February 2000, quoting
[c2b81], page 151
The ensign was established by Order No. 410 of the Minister of Defence, published in Ghana Gazette No. 15 dated 20 February 1960, however, I assume (but without confirmation) that its canton was amended on 1 January 1964 and on 28 February 1966 in line with changes to the national flag. The best information I have suggests proportions of 2:3 rather than 5:8, but this is not official Christopher Southworth, 22 August 2010
Based on pictures found in Internet, the naval ensign is longer than the
national flag or as shown in the French Navy Books. It seems that the real use
of this ensign with ratio 1:2.
https://www.navyonline.mil.gh
https://ghanatoday.gov.gh
Zoltan Horvath, 6 June 2024
image by Peter Krembs, 03 April 2001
According to Ultimate Pocket Flags of the World
[rya97], this is the naval ensign of
Ghana.
Peter Krembs, 03 April 2001
I have no records with that white flag reported by
[rya97].
Armand du Payrat, 04 April 2001
image by Željko Heimer, 08 October 2001
According to the Album 2000 [pay00],
the Chief of Naval Staff uses a 2:3 white flag with red cross throughout with
two black balls, one in 1st and one in 3rd quarter. There is, I guess, no doubt
on British influence here, too.
Željko Heimer, 08 Oct 2001
