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PERSONAL
FLAG,
NATIONAL
UNION
COMMAND
SHIPS OR CRAFTS
ENSIGN
JACK
PENNANT, OR
DISPLAYED
DISPLAYED
COMMISSION
PENNANT
DISPLAYED
ACTIVE:
In commission
Yes
Yes
Yes
In service
Yes
Yes
No2
INACTIVE:
In commission, in reserve
Yes
Yes
Yes
In service, in reserve
Yes
Yes
Yes
Out of commission, in
reserve
No1
No
No
Out of service, in reserve
No1
No
No
SPECIAL STATUS:
In commission, special
Yes
Yes
Yes
In service, special
Yes
Yes
Yes
Out of commission,
special
No1
No
No
Out of service, special
No1
No
No
1
National ensign shall be displayed if necessary to indicate the national character of the ship or craft.
2
Applies to display of commission pennant only. A flag officer or unit commander embarked may
display a personal flag or command pennant.
Figure 8-4.-Display of ensign, union jack, and distinctive mark from ships and craft.
or pennant, or their commission pennant as specified
in figure 8-4.
The distinctive mark of a commissioned Navy
ship or craft is a personal flag or a command pennant
of an officer of the Navy or a commission pennant.
The distinctive mark of a commissioned hospital ship
of the Navy is the Red Cross flag.
A ship or craft does not display more than one
distinctive mark at one time, nor does it display the
commission pennant and the personal flag of a civil
official at one time.
Except as prescribed in Navy Regulations for
certain occasions of ceremony and when civil officials
are embarked, ships display the flag or pennant day
and night. Ships display the distinctive mark at the
after masthead or, in a mastless ship, from the
loftiest and most conspicuous hoist.
When not underway ships display the national
ensign from the flagstaff and the union jack from the
jackstaff from 0800 until sunset. A ship that enters
port at night, when appropriate, displays the national
ensign from the gaff at daylight for a time sufficient
to establish its nationality. Other ships of war
customarily display their national ensigns in return.
Unless the senior officer present directs otherwise, a
ship underway displays the ensign during daylight
from the gaff under the following circumstances. (If
the ship has mast-mounted booms and stays that
would interfere with the
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