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Azerbaijan: Naval rank flags and pennants

Commander in Chief of the Navy
Chief of Naval Staff
Commander of a Group
Commander of a Division
Senior Officer Afloat
Masthead Pennant
Colour specifications

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Commander in Chief of the Navy

Flag of the Commander in Chief of the Navy - Image by Željko Heimer, 21 January 2001

Album des Pavillons [pay00] shows the flag of the Commander in Chief of the Navy as a flag if ratio 3:5, similar to the Minister of Defense's flag, but the blue stripe is defaced along the middle with a white stripe half the width of the blue stripe.

Željko Heimer, 21 January 2001

Chief of Naval Staff

Flag of the Commander in Chief of Naval Staff - Image by Željko Heimer, 21 January 2001

Album des Pavillons [pay00] shows the flag of the Chief of Naval Staff as a flag if ratio 3:5, similar to the Minister of Defense's flag, but the blue stripe is divided by two, that is 1/10th of hoist.

Željko Heimer, 21 January 2001

Commander of a Group

Flag and pennant of the Commander of a Group - Images by Željko Heimer, 21 January 2001

Album des Pavillons [pay00] shows the flag of the Commander of a Group as a flag if ratio 3:5, similar to the Minister of Defense's flag,, but without the blue stripe, and a slightly different crescent and star.
The matching pennant is made of the naval flag, in ratio 3:5, with a red, swallow-tailed fly. Indentation seems to be about 4/3 of hoist.

Željko Heimer, 21 January 2001

Commander of a Division

Pennant of the Commander of a Division - Image by Željko Heimer, 21 January 2001

Album des Pavillons [pay00] shows the pennant of the Commander of a Division as a pennant in ratio 3:5, similar to the Commander of a Group's pennant, but with the fly blue instead of red. Indentation seems to be about 4/3 of hoist.

Željko Heimer, 21 January 2001

Senior Officer Afloat

Pennant of the Senior Officer Afloat - Image by Željko Heimer, 21 January 2001

Album des Pavillons [pay00] shows the pennant of the Senior Officer Afloat as a pennant in ratio 3:5, similar to the Commander of a Group's pennant, but with the fly white instead of red, divided from the hoist part by a black vertical line. Indentation seems to be about 4/3 of hoist.

Željko Heimer, 21 January 2001

Masthead Pennant

Masthead Pennant - Image by Željko Heimer, 21 January 2001

Album des Pavillons [pay00] shows the Masthead Pennant as a long swallow-tailed pennant with the naval flag in hoist and the national flag in fly part. The vertical proportions seem to be 1:2:3:2:1 (pennant top to fly top end : fly top end to red stripes: red stripe: red stripe to bottom fly end: bottom fly end to bottom of the flag). Indentation looks like about 4 hoist sizes.
The proportion of the pennant is approximately 1:12.

Željko Heimer, 21 January 2001

According to an official illustration I have on file, the masthead pennant of Azerbaijan is wrong. This particular illustration - part of a series defining the naval flags of 1999 - is done in an 'artistic' manner and so is useless for specification purposes, however, it clearly shows that the masthead pennant narrows towards the fly to approx one-third the hoist, rather than of even width throughout as we show it (or indeed to two-thirds as in the Album). It further shows the naval flag at the head as being in proportions of about 2:3, and the indentation at the fly as being about 1.25 times the width.

Christopher Southworth, 4 September 2004

Colour specifications

The colour approximations given in Album des Pavillons [pay00] are:

Blue : Pantone Process Blue c / CMYK (%) C 100 - M 10 - Y 0 - K 5
Red: Pantone 1795c / CMYK (%) C 0 - M 90 - Y 100 - K 0
Green: Pantone 355c / CMYK (%) C 100 - M 0 - Y 90 - K 5
Light blue: Pantone 549c / CMYK (%) C 50 - M 0 - Y 0 - K 20

The images shown above were made approximating those colours to the closest BS (browser-safe) colour. The two blue shades seem on the screen very similar, though yet clearly different, but the difference is much more observable in printing since the Process blue is more lively than in on-screen look.

Željko Heimer, 21 January 2001