Which naval flag is your favorite? I love Hungary's!

@ZEKESasaMo

3 жыл бұрын

I love Belgium's!

@ruffkuntry2574

3 жыл бұрын

How do landlocked countries have navies? Hungary’s is pretty cool.

@Bellasie1

3 жыл бұрын

Thailand! That was a very interesting video, yes please do more on the various types of flags! Thank you!

@MustraOrdo

3 жыл бұрын

Australia, Hungary and Singapore all have aesthetics

@arditqorrolli7693

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that Hungary has a navy. You learn something new everyday,I guess😂(yea im just fucking joking)

Hungary is landlocked but still having one of the best naval flags😂

@General.Knowledge

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@DominikVarga0207

3 жыл бұрын

navy at balaton

@howardthealien2606

3 жыл бұрын

Is it possible a country being Sealocked or even *Airlocked*

@markthebikethief1248

3 жыл бұрын

Howard The Alien *perhaps*

@rubberduck3y6

3 жыл бұрын

@@howardthealien2606 A sealocked country would surely be any island country with no land borders?

The naval flag designs are really cool stuff, all are unique and interesting in their own ways

@josueveguilla9069

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@howardthealien2606

3 жыл бұрын

Russia’s looks like Scotland but if Blue was white and blue was on the X

@tschetatsch

3 жыл бұрын

@Howard The Alien yeah inverted Scottish flag

My country has naval forces and one of the coolest naval flag. Now we only need a coast.

@sch0146

3 жыл бұрын

*t r u e*

@bajlozi6873

3 жыл бұрын

Reloades Ak. Ready? Joke

@sch0146

3 жыл бұрын

@@bajlozi6873 ?

@firdaus99031

3 жыл бұрын

Swiss?

@timi1655

3 жыл бұрын

@@firdaus99031 Hungarian

My favourite navals flags are Italy, Saudi Arabia, Malta, Poland, Hungary, Belgium, Luxembourg, UK and Thailand

I just want an F to pay respects for Bolivias Naval Ensign

@romerobritto9094

3 жыл бұрын

it's funny, because they have no coast hahahahajajajajaja

@alejandropalenciano2319

3 жыл бұрын

Hungary also doesn't have coastline but for some reason they have a naval ensign :v

@Luzitanium

3 жыл бұрын

@@alejandropalenciano2319 dramatic sound with dramatic look..... ( o_O )

@b.botond4222

3 жыл бұрын

@@alejandropalenciano2319 maaan, we have rivers

@howardthealien2606

3 жыл бұрын

Romero Britto they still do kinda have access to The Pacific Ocean and Atlantic but they have to pass Chile and Then pass Uruguay for Pacific and Atlantic

I think the history of the Italian jack is pretty cool: it uses the 4 flags of 4 medieval city States: Venice, Genoa, Pisa and Amalfi. These were naval powers in the Mediterranean during the middle ages.

@paolob.5667

3 жыл бұрын

@@leonardodavid2842 yes, thank you for reminding me the exact names for them

@paolob.5667

3 жыл бұрын

@@leonardodavid2842 thanks, I didn't know their history very well.

Just wanted to point out that the Naval Jack, as far as I've seen in NATO ships, is usually hoisted at the bow. Just as a curiosity, in Spain it is used in 5 cases: Sundays. Festive days. Days when you fly all the flags (I don't know how to say it in English, but we call it "engalanado"). When a foreign ship is in the same port. When you are in a foreign port. Of course, never used while sailing. Great video, and great work.

Italy: *_It's showtime_*

@francescoboselli6033

3 жыл бұрын

I show only one Italian flag, and for just one second 😅

When I saw Bolivia's naval flag, I was laughing hard about how they're salty about losing their coastline which is reflected in their flag design. 😂😂😂😂

@nachoqualsevol554

3 жыл бұрын

...and it's used by vessels in lakes and rivers

@realhawaii5o

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! They have an extra star for the Pacific coast state

@a2falcone

3 жыл бұрын

It's officially called the "Flag of the maritime claim" and used in all the events related to that claim. So yes, it is the "we're salty about losing our coast" flag. The existence of a Bolivian Navy as a separate branch of the military is out of saltiness too. They didn't even bother to create a navy while they had a coast.

@ZazoShamo

3 жыл бұрын

Guys, has any of you heard of sarcasm? 😅

*starts talking about signal flags* WoWs players: *leonardo di caprio pointing at tv*

@jakobnuernberger94

3 жыл бұрын

when i was in the navy i had to work with that. the german navy has a special signals-section, wich works with, you guessed it, signal flags among others. really niche and i dont know if other navies have such a dedicated section for this.

Mongolia has a naval flag but only has one ship and they are a landlocked country.

@paapeeraa5325

3 жыл бұрын

Hey sono Italiano ciao

@TheRealKingLeopoldII

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently only one person that works in the Mongolian Navy can swim

@clishe7395

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRealKingLeopoldII They can swim in their lakes.

@TheRealKingLeopoldII

3 жыл бұрын

@@clishe7395 I know but in their navy (that I think only has 9 people), only 1 person can swim or so I've heard

@davidt3500

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRealKingLeopoldII They don't need to swim. They have a ship and the chances of someone sinking it is very low :D

Loved the video! The naval jack for Belgium is pretty cool. Thanks a lot for the info!

Hungary's one looks like a Christmas decoration, I love it!

The Spanish naval ensign is the one that was popularized back in the 1800s when it took over from the so-called San Andrés flag, which at the time was the land army flag, to represent the nation as a whole.

A Jack is flown from the bow, not the stern, while anchored or docked, and removed as soon as the vessel has way on.

@reminder9146

10 ай бұрын

LOWDER FOR THE FOLKS IN THE BACK!

Great work! I keep learning with your channel!

Arf, can't believe you didn't show the maritime jack of the Netherlands ! It's my favourite, to be honest. The design is really unique and uses the three colours of their national flag.

Thank you. This channel is not only highly informative, interesting, and enjoyable on its own, but also (for me) is a welcome respite from my usual diet of political commentary.

I'm from Argentina and I can tell you that in the 80s the civilian flag changed including the "Sol de Mayo" (the sun), that was used only in wars and stuff like that. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷❤️

I’d love to see more videos on flags like this! Or more videos on flags in general!

Hace poco habia leido sobre el tema pero no lo habia entendido muy bien y aqui me lo aclaraste perfectamente, GRACIAS!!, exelente canal, exelente contenido.

i’ve never been this lucky to see such a great video so early

@matthewmclean9012

3 жыл бұрын

Early squad

@General.Knowledge

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Love your videos! Keep the great work up!

Very interesting video. I have learn things that i have never thought about. Thanks a lot.

I would not add something, I will just say it .. you are giving us information with simple joy and entertainment in it.

Haven't watched this video yet, but keep up all the great work, man.

@General.Knowledge

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I am really dissapointed That the Dutch Naval ensign was not featured the so called "Geuzenvlag" Which comes as the double for navy ships and single for everyone else nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geus_(vlag)

To give reason for the Jack (at least for british ships), you fly it whilst at anchor. There are numerous reasons, for example, if its flying whilst sailing it could be damaged due to the spray and winds, it shows other vessels that you're stationary or that there is (as you said) a special reason for it being up, with the events usually taking place whilst stationary.

Italian flag is a historic reference to the former maritime republics: venice, Amalfi, Genova and Pisa.

Forgot the “don’t tread on me” jack for the US navy when the war on terror was being officially fought. It was very resent that the navy got back to using the Union Jack.

7:00 aah, Finland's "special" lion

@user-vv7mz6ps4k

3 жыл бұрын

The armed and crowned lion.

Adoro teus vídeos meu amigo.

The Italian flag has the simbol of the the four maritime repubilcs:Venice, Genoa, Pisa and Amalfi

The British Union Flag is only officially the Union Jack when flown from Jack Staff of a ship. We had a Jack Staff from old ship at our University Hall of Residence and therefore the only Union Jack flying.

Mexico 🇲🇽 has a similar case. Its naval flag originally was the classic green, white and red in vertical bars but the flag was always confused with the Italia flag so they changed the orden of colors and turn in diagonal design with a small anchor in the middle next to 3 stars.

I am surprised you missed the Australian civil marine ensign - following British tradition it has a RED field with white stars rather than the blue field of the shore flags. Most Commonwealth countries and British colonies follow this pattern for flags at sea. This is derived from the Admiralty division flags - which was where you got Admiral if the Red, White & Blue as position descriptions.

@kizzer14100

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but the RAN ensign is a reverse of the national flag

@allangibson8494

3 жыл бұрын

kieran halloran No - it is a derivative of the Royal Navy white ensign as a result of Australian involvement in the Vietnam War.

Major missing details: There are also civil jacks and commissioning pennants. Correction: The non-rectangular Nordic flags mentioned are types of swallowtail, not pennants. Correction: jacks are flown at the bow (front) of a ship, ensigns are usually flown at the stern (back).

@russkiydurak

11 ай бұрын

I'm working on a project to improve the Russian maritime flags and such, so your correction helped me complete it more accurately, thank you!

This is an amazing video, even better wheb you're early

I love how some countries have naval flags without having a sea coast

Wow. Maritime signal flags is one of those things I've wondered about my whole life but never having taken time to research :P

Probably the most famous if the signal flags is P, known as the Blue Peter (from which a well known kid's program in the UK is named after), several pubs in the UK are named after it and it is the flag that you as a passenger see means you need to get on board quickly!

There is also the first Naval Jack of the US, it's a variant of the Gadsden flag ("Don't tread on me") with red and white horizontal stripes. It was the US Navy jack from 2002-2019.

The Danish Naval flag (da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannebrog#/media/Fil:Naval_Ensign_of_Denmark.svg) is in fact slightly different from the state flag (da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannebrog#/media/Fil:Flag_of_Denmark_(state).svg). The "red" in naval flag is "deep red" (pantone 194C) compared with the red in the state flag (pantone 186C). Also the relative dimensions are slightly different.

So, as a former member of the US Navy, I was about to complain that that was no longer the US Naval Jack, we switched to the "First Naval Jack"in 2002. But before posting my complaint, I double checked to see if there had been any changes. And I'll be damned, there was. We switched back last year!! I haven't been out of the service that long, but long enough to be out of touch. Well, I appreciate you keeping me up to date. Thank you, Sir.

@therealdavyjones6859

3 жыл бұрын

Howdy, shipmate! I had forgotten about the "first naval jack" being deployed during that time (especially since I left active service years before it was authorized).

Australia has the red ensign for civilian maritime use too!

Ingredientes Para o Bolo: 2 xíc. De farinha de trigo 1 colh. (sopa) de fermento em pó 1/2 xíc. Cacau em pó 32% 1/2 xíc. De açúcar mascavo 1 xíc. De água (fervida) 1 xíc. De açúcar 3 ovos 1 xíc. De manteiga (temperatura ambiente) 1 colh. Essência de baunilha Para a Cobertura: 4 colh. (sopa) de leite 1 colh. (sopa) de manteiga 4 colh. (sopa) de cacau em pó 50% 2 colh. (sopa) de açúcar mascavo Preparo Comece misturando o chocolate em pó 32% com o açúcar mascavo e a água fervendo. Quando estiver homogêneo, reserve. Na batedeira, coloque a manteiga com o açúcar e bata até virar um creme branco. Depois, adicione a essência de baunilha, misture um pouco e adicione os ovos um a um, misture um pouco mais. Reserve. Em outra vasilha, misture a farinha de trigo peneirada com o fermento em pó. Agora vc vai misturar as três vasilhas diferentes. Coloque um pouco da primeira vasilha (chocolate com água e açúcar), um pouco da segunda (a da manteiga e essência de baunilha) e a terceira (farinha e fermento). Misture suavemente e vá acrescentando as vasilhas de pouco em pouco até acabar tudo. Coloque em uma forma untada em um forno pré aquecido em 180 graus por 40 minutos (faça o teste do palitinho pra ver se tá bom). Misture os ingredientes da cobertura tudo em uma panela até começar a ferver, sempre misturando. Quando ferver, desligue do fogo e despeje sobre o bolo já pronto.

The US Naval Jack was changed for a while by President Bush from the 50 stars to a version of the Gadsen flag. The jacks are usually displayed at the bow, not the stern, when not under way. The "yachting" ensign with the vertical stripes was not really a yachting ensign. It is the ensign of the US Power Squadron and is flown by vessels, which usually are yachts, engaged in the business of the Power Squadron; it is civil volunteer organization that assists the USCG and USCG Auxiliary in matters of yachting safety. Also, the international signal flags are also used in combination for some simple and common messages. These messages are less common than the one letter codes but they are common enough to warrant 2 letter codes. If memory serves, there are also a few 3 letter codes.

belgium has two more dedicated maritime flags, both are variations on the tricolor, there's a state ensign putting the crowned lion in black on the yellow and the yacht flag, having a golden crown on the black in the upper hoist corner

Yeah Belgium has a really cool one. Scotland’s one is just the saltire in the canton with a red field. It was used in pre union times, and I think was re adopted after devolution

From what I understand, the Royal Navy fly the White Ensign (flag of England with the Union Jack in the canton) and the British merchant navy fly the red ensign (red flag with the Union Jack in the canton) the Australian naval flag is a variant of the British Royal Navy flag.

Man the you should show the swiss one, its epic

Outmost interresting, you could add some developing the matter on every country. T is the originary French Republic flag which started being red white and blue.

Hungary has a Navy flag even tough they don't have a coastal Acess

@b.botond4222

3 жыл бұрын

The Danube is going trough Budapest

@octotitan4574

3 жыл бұрын

@@b.botond4222 Ah yes, I forgot about it

@Dave_Sisson

3 жыл бұрын

Hungary used to have a coastline in Dalmatia (now part of Croatia), but they lost it in 1918.

@octotitan4574

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dave_Sisson I think thé ships are to old now to be use

@sch0146

3 жыл бұрын

@@octotitan4574 We still have shipyards.

6:13 surprised you mentioned my country! Sad we can't really use since we are landlocked. Only real usage is in Lake Titicaca.

So early for a informative video

Whilst we spoke about different sections of Naval flags, I feel that we were missing an explanation of a certain nations flags. White Ensign, Red Ensign and the Blue Ensign, White ensign is commonly used by Commonwealth nations on Warships, Red Ensign is used on Merchant and Civilian vessels and the Blue Ensign is used on State vessels. The Red and Blue Ensign have both been used for nation and colonial/dominion flags.

Presidential/monarch flags next?

6:14 Bolivia's naval ensign looks like a part of it has been censored with a censor mosaic lol

Queen's colours exist too at least in the commonwealth where a special flag is put on the ship the monarch is on

Fun fact: many people in Finland opposed the adoption of the blue Nordic Cross because it looked too similiar to the Helsinki yacth clubs ensign. Arguing it was too casual and Helsinki centric to be a national flag.

nice video General Knowledge Do u know Blas de Lezo?

Me: *Albanian Also me when see Albania flag: *CLICK ON THE VIDEO RREALLY FAST

@itsgenti8910

3 жыл бұрын

Shqipee

@lionely3485

3 жыл бұрын

Ca ke, u suprizove

@arianhoxha5593

3 жыл бұрын

Mendova qe jam i vetmi shqiptar ktu. Bravo shqipe 🇦🇱🇽🇰

@bajlozi6873

3 жыл бұрын

Ue paska shqiptar haha. Ckemi shqipe

@tunelessguide2771

3 жыл бұрын

🇦🇱🇦🇱

The Philippine war ensign is probably the most unique as it’s basically the national flag flown upside down. (Red at the top blue down)

Why do you use only Austrian marches for backround music? I'm totally okay with it, but are you from Austria or do you love them so much?

IT WAS AN EXCELLENT TOPIC TO LEARN ABOUT!!!!!!!👌👌 THANKS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 👍👍.... WHY DON'T YOU MAKE A VIDEO ON TIME ZONES OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES??

A few corrections: The Jack flag is flown from the bow (front) of the ship not the stern (back). The yachtsmans ensigns can for a great number of countries be flown outside of their territorial waters including the Spanish yacht ensign defaced with a blue crown. The US one supposedly should not. The French yachting ensign you displayed is only for members of the French yachting club, a fee paying club akin to the RYA in the UK. However the French ensign is different to the national flag in that the white and red sections are each wider than the predecessor nearer to the flagstaff so that when it is fluttering in the wind it will still look the right proportions. The Swis ensign is square just like their national flag. And the British ensigns, well where do we start, suffice to say its all to do with class but they have three different basic types which can in turn be defaced to denote a region or a special warrant but you could do a while video on the British ones alone.

Can you make a video of every active us flags

"a rectangle catches the wind better than any other shape" * draws a wind sock *

correction naval jack is used on the bow not in the rear (from a portuguese navy's sailor)

I have seen French and Spanish yacht ensigns in Portugal.

The Dutch navy is one of the oldest in the world and also has a naval ensign and jack, maybe should of been there? But great video nonetheless!

Halo mein general das video ist sehr güt I have been studying german over the past few months

@alejandropalenciano2319

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, good but you made a small mistake: you wrotte "Halo", while it is spelled " *Hallo* " Btw, Ich lerne auch Deutsch (in der Schule)

@jacobbailey-lawton1086

3 жыл бұрын

@@alejandropalenciano2319 oh cool, thank you for the advice

In Japan, rising sun flag is still used in Naval Ensign. but it's off centered. centered one was used in army but now decommissioned.

The naval jacks you show are flown at the bow and not at the stern as you said

The Australian (British and New Zealand - suspect Canada too) actually have 3 Naval Ensigns. National Flag on a white background for Military Naval Vessels, NAtional Flag on a Red background for merchant (and recreational) naval vessels, and National Flag on a Blue background (so for Australia and NZ - just their National Flag) where the skipper and 1st Mate are members of the Royal Naval Reserve (or Royal Naval Reserve of the particular Realm), But I got a sense you were deliberately trying to avoid using British and Commonwealth Flags as your examples.

Although it didn't appear in this video, Japan also has a wonderfully designed Naval ensign!

@General.Knowledge

3 жыл бұрын

It does!

@nickkei2838

3 жыл бұрын

Disclaimer: it symbolizes the enlightenment of Japan after Meiji restoration unlike another famous design which symbolizes a particular ideology.

@Alaois

3 жыл бұрын

Rising sun?

@ZEKESasaMo

3 жыл бұрын

@@Alaois yup

in the jacks section I believe it's not Lithuania but guessing Finland (lion trampling a sabre)

I love how polands yacht ensign is basically the german empire with sth else in the middle xD

Having served under the star field jack, I still have a soft spot in my heart for it. :) Go Navy! Beat Army!

The flag shown in the Number 3 example of what a flag can be is the Bulgarian Naval Ensign from 1990, and yeah, it conforms to the stereotype of an extensive amount of white. It's actually an adaptation of the older naval flag, which featured the same equal tri-colour as the current one, with the Lion at the top. The older naval flag is also something commonly thought of as the real flag of the Tsardom of Bulgaria, even Hearts of Iron 4 fell for it...and they aren't really wrong, but the more accurate one is the one we also currently have....as for why we use the Lion, or the Golden Lion, that is just something we associate with extensively, including in our national songs, so it's there and it will always be.

9:30 The Y/I require assistance naval flag also looks like the flag of Alabama strangely.

Fun Fact: The Qing Naval Flag (a dragon with yellow background) was too complex that it ended up looking like a child’s drawing of a snake

The danish naval ensign/jack isn't just with swallow tails, it is actually a different red, it is a deeper red than the national flag.

You mention Luxembourg's, but that flag is actually what they would like to be their national flag too. There has been a referendum - only 500 people voted, but then again, we are talking about a tiny country - and many politicians have taken position on it, usually with the more national oriented ones preferring the new proposal and international politicians for the old one. The original reasoning for a new flag is that the current one looks too much like The Netherlands' - which is because it used to be a dominion of theirs. I cannot find a decent source for it, but when I was at the Luxembourg City Museum they told or joked that the only reason why they didn't change it was apparently because it would cost too much to replace all the flags worldwide.

That's a curious way to pronounce ensign. In the UK we pronounce it somewhere between 'en-sin' and 'en-sən'.

The main reason why some naval jacks look like the UK's national flag is because the UK's national flag in of itself was the naval jack, aka, the Union Jack. This set a trend in the 19th century, where other navies wanted to copy a tradition of the most powerful navy at the time, which resulted in most naval jacks looking like the UK's Union Jack.

SWEDEN'S FIRST FLAG LAW In our first flag law, from 1663, it was decided that the flag with three tongues could only be used by warships. Private merchant ships had to make do with the cross-cut variant. The three-tongued flag was hoisted ashore at military installations, but also at royal estates and the like. Pretty cool huh :D

Hi General knowledge. There is actually a subtle difference between the Danish state ensign and the naval ensign, as the naval ensign has a darker hue of red, known here as naval red. Here you seem to present both the state ensign and the naval ensign as naval red but the state ensign should be lighter.

Naval jacks are flown at the bow of naval ships (not the "front"). Ensign is pronounced en-SIN (as in committing a sin) not en-SINE (like a stop sign). Ensigns are normally flown at the stern while a ship is moored or at anchor, but flown aloft while underway.

All British registered ships use either the red, white or blue ensign. The red ensign (a red field with a union flag in the canton) is used for merchant ships, the white ensign (st George’s cross with a Union flag In the canton) is used for warships and the blue ensign (like the red but blue obviously) is used for all the weird shit.

Hi, I believe that you made a slight mistake on the subject of the Jack. Jacks are found on the front of the ship, not the back.

The Italian Naval Jack represents the four (Italian) medieval Maritime Republics, which all had their own flag: (clockwise, from the up left) Venice, Genoa, Pisa and Amalfi. Also the French flag for yachts is mildly infuriating... looks like it should have a third star. Oh, and I love Luxembourg’s Civil ensign too.

Denmarks Naval and yacht ensings are also a darker shade of red than the normal Dannebrog.. 😁🇩🇰

"you better fear the US navy" *blue background with some stars lmao*

I like the flag. It is one of two to use a double-headed eagle. The other one is Montenegro

I've seen a boat flying signal flags spelling "butt"

Luxembourg’s civil ensign is awesome, wow that’s brilliant

@ZEKESasaMo

3 жыл бұрын

Your country has a good naval ensign

7:15 looks like Novorossiya

@Rustycaddy17

3 жыл бұрын

That's because the flag of Novorossiya is based on the naval jack of the Imperial Russian/Modern day Russian navy.

The Finnish Yacht Ensign is a legal flag of Finland and is NOT restricted to internal waters. It can be flown everywhere as long as the boat is registered and the owner is part of an official Yacht Club and is on board.