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Neubecker [neu92] shows rank flags
in ratio 2:3, while current sources (Album 2000
[pay00], for instance) show them 1:2.
Natural question is when they were redesigned, however I am aware that
the answer to this may not be easy. The national flag ratio
changed with time, too, so in Neubecker’s
time (1939) it was 333:500, i.e.
≅2:3. In 1967 this was changed to 1:2, and
the rank flags may have followed then or latter on, by some regualtion
on by practice. However, in 1988 the national
flag chnaged the ratio to 3:5. It is possible that the rank flags
followed too, but we have yet no info on it. Or, it may be that the
rank flags have not yet been regulated anew.
Željko Heimer, 25 Oct 2002
Znamierowski 1999 [zna99] notes that
the Navy Jack is in use since 1934. This may
also be the date of introduction of the blue set of naval rank flags, as
shown in Neubecker 1939 [neu92] and still
used today with only minor differences.
Željko Heimer, 25 Oct 2002
Landlocked Paraguay has a navy, with 19 river patrol boats (and 7
more currently in command in Spain), 1 repair-ship, 4 transports, 1
hydrographer, 5 planes, 4 helicopters, and 3,700 men. (Source:
Cdt Prézelin: Flottes de Combat (Combat Fleets of the World).
Edilarge, sa: Rennes, 1998, & Naval Institute Press: Annapolis)
Armand Noel du Payrat, 03 Feb 1998
Paraguay has a Navy (as Bolivia
does too) and it’s not so landlocked since you can easily
reach the sea in Buenos Aires from Asunción through
the rivers Paraguay and Paraná. Other landlocked
countries that have merchant navies coming to mind are
Luxembourg and
Switzerland and both have naval ensigns.
Vantuyl Barbosa, 03 Feb 1998
The Paraguayan jack has a bicolor saltire, one
diagonal being blue and the other one red, with a
yellow star in the centre.
Ivan Sache 03 Feb 1998
White square flag with red falling and blue rising diagonal stripe,
their intersection covered with a white disk containing a golden
five-pointed star. Znamierowski 1999 [zna99]
p. 94 pictures it too and notes that it is in use since 1934.
Željko Heimer, 25 Oct 2002
(Other sources confirming this design include [neu92], [pay00], [ped70] and [kan56] — ed.)
Album’s 1995 recapitulative issue
[pie95] shows this flag with missing white
disk behind the star. I recogn it an error again.
Željko Heimer, 27 Oct 2002
Shown in [pay00]:
≅1:20 triangular long pennant red-white-blue stripes converging towards
the fly, and with a white field triangually ended in fly part containing
yellow fieve- pointed star.
Neubecker [neu92] shows a
very similar pennant.
Željko Heimer, 26 Oct 2002
Shown also in Album 1995 recapitulative
issue [pie95].
Željko Heimer, 27 Oct 2002
Shown in the Flaggenbuch [neu92]:
size 10×800 cm (ratio 1:80); similar to that shown
in Album 2000 [pay00], only consideably
longer and with red tassel at the fly (or is it just a blotch of red ink?).
Image “clipped” at the middle.
Željko Heimer, 26 and 29 Oct 2002
Shown in the Flaggenbuch [neu92]:
4:5 swallowtailed blue flag with a white cross and a yellow anchor
diagonally set in canton. Is this matching to the blue cross white
trapeze flag of the general prefect of ports
shown in Album 1995 [pie95]?
Željko Heimer, 29 Oct 2002
Final note in Flaggenbuch [neu92]
says: «Pilot calling signal and Pilot marking after the international
signals.»
Željko Heimer, 29 Oct 2002
Shown in [pay00]:
Over a roundel of red-white-and-blue
a black cabled anchor.
Željko Heimer, 26 Oct 2002
The book [cos98] also reports that
Aviación de la Armada Nacional Paraguaya (Naval air arm —
formed mid-60’) uses the same roundel as
the Air Force but superinposed by an anchor.
Not so easy to locate a photo from 3 planes’ service…
Dov Gutterman, 22 Jun 2004