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image by Jarig Bakker, 2 January 2006
Burma Navigation Corp., Rangoon - horizontal red over blue flag; on red white
"BNC".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 2 January 2006
image by Miles Li, 18 December 2007
Yesterday I watched a television documentary called "Burma's Forgotten
Fleet", which is about the steamboat ferries of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company,
which was the world's largest river fleet during the times of British
colonization. After Burma's independence the fleet has come under the control of
the government agency known as Inland Water Transport, which to this day fly the
flag illustrated here as a house flag (at the jackstaff, even when under way).
Another interesting point is that although currently the (Myanmar)
national flag is the proper civil ensign, a small number
of ferries seem to continue to fly old surplus pieces of
the former civil ensign, apparently without much
political repercussions.
Miles Li, 18 December 2007
The Brown series of 1978, 1982 and 1995 all show a red flag with a very broad
horizontal blue band bearing 5 white stars. The company began as the Burma Five
Star Line Ltd., then becoming successively the Union of Burma Five Star Line
Ltd., the Burma Five Star Shipping Corporation and then in 1989 Myanma Five
Star Line. I have shown the Lloyds spelling of "Myanma" which differs from the
country name.
Neale Rosanoski, 21 June 2004
Red-black-red triband with white fimbriations between the black and the red and 5 white stars on the black bar.
Jorge Candeias, 1 April 1999