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The Album 2000 [pay00] says:
Naval Ensign.2:3
Red flag with green pentagram in the middle and four yellow crowns, one in
each corner.
Željko Heimer, 09 Jun 2002
The official plate sent to me by the Moroccan Royal
Navy (Album sur les Pavillons et les marques du Royaume
du Maroc, sent to me on 1997.01.08 by the Moroccan
military Attaché in Paris) gives for the Navy flag four
small yellow crowns, one in each corner. That is different
from what I have seen in many flag books, but the same is
shown on a photo in Cols Bleus review dated
1998.01.31.
Armand du Payrat, 20 Jun 1997 and 14 Sep 1998
The war ensign included a single crown
in canton. However, in early 1990’s a new set of ensigns was
introduced, with much more stylized crowns, civil ensign with one
crown and war ensign with four.
Željko Heimer, 08 Jun 2002
Smith (both [smi75b]
and [smi80]) gives the
version with one crown in canton as naval ensign, and
civil ensign is supposed to be
the same as national flag.
The shape of the crown given is more similar to the crown
that is on the top of the state arms.
Željko Heimer, 21 Jun 1997
The Album 2000 [pay00] shows
a 1:2 red swallow-tailed flag bordered on all sized with a yellow
border containing a yellow fimbriated green pentagram in the middle.
The border width seems to be 1/10 of the hoist. The star is rather large,
inscribed in a circle that seems to be with diameter 2/3 of the hoist.
The yellow fimbriation clearly shows how the
pentagram is formed of five ticks (check marks,
shapes of the number "1").
Željko Heimer, 09 Jun 2002
Album des Pavillons (Correction #27
[pay97], May 1997)
shows for the jack the
national ensign with a swallow-tail
(overall proportion 1:2, fork extending over c. 1/4th of
the flag length), a yellow border all around and a yellow
fimbriation around the star.
Ivan Sache, 17 Nov 2000
Crampton 1989 [cra89] describes the
Moroccan jack thus, «as above with a yellow border all around».
Since this description comes after that of the naval
ensign, it is not clear whether the «above» flag referred
to is the national one or the naval ensign.
Santiago Dotor, 17 Nov 2000
Michel Lupant in Gaceta de
Banderas 46 wrote about jack as red swallow-tailed
very-long flag with green star. Without yelow border.
Victor Lomantsov, 18 Nov 2000
Michel’s words were: «en los bordes hilos de oro»
(=«with a fringe made of golden thread»). Michel is mistaken
here.
Armand du Payrat and
Santiago Dotor, 21 Nov 2000
The Album 2000 [pay00]
shows a ≅1:10 triangular pennant vertically divided at half, red at
hoist green at fly.
Željko Heimer, 11 Jun 2002
Both Album 2000 [pay00]
and Cochrane and Elliott [cos98] show
emblems like naval air arm roundel, but Morroco doesn’t have
a naval air arm (only Air Force)… go
figure.
Dov Gutterman, 20 Jun 2004
The emblem is used as aircraft marking
on naval aircrafts, but there the star is green.
Željko Heimer, 09 Jun 2002
The 1998 book by Cochrane and Elliott
[cos98] pictures previously used
(pre-1990’s?) naval roundel without any text about it — blue roundel
with black anchor cable white all bordered with red roundel that at the top
“merges” with a red fivepointed star of which thus only three top points are
visible.
Željko Heimer, 11 Jun 2002