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Dominion of Gibraltar
Last modified: 1997-09-03 by zeljko heimer
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by zeljko heimer 23-DEC-1995
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On Gibraltarian Flag
White flag with a red base, in the middle red castle, a yellow key hanging from it.I like this flag very much, since it is so descriptive. It makes me think of the 'Key of Mediterainan' emediately.
As I understud, there was no 'blue duster' flag for Gibraltar. GI became British in 1713, but it flew Union Jack until 1966.
zeljko heimer 20-FEB-1996
There is, but not in the sense I suspect you mean (ie. for use as a colonial flag
on land.) A blue ensign with the coat of arms in the fly is used by shipping in
Government service. (The Gibraltarian flag is the banner of the arms.)
stuart notholt 20-FEB-1996
William Crampton says in its Observers FLAGS, editions Frederick Warne,
London 1991, that the use of the arms as a basis for the
flags was regularized in 1982.
pascal vagnat 21-FEB-1996