Green Ensign Explained

Green Ensign
Use:	000100
Proportion:	1:2
Adoption:	British Merchant Navy
Design:	Green with the Union Jack occupying one quarter of the field and placed in the canton and a harp in the fly.

The Green Ensign is a historical flag flown by some Irish merchant vessels from the 17th century to the early 20th century. The flag consists of a green field with a golden Irish harp and a canton containing either St George's Cross or a version of the Union Jack.

This flag has appeared in these historical flag plates:

• 1685 Downman's Flag Chart
• 17th century A New Table of all the Ships, Collors or Ensings, in the Wholl Water World Newly Eneressed and Amende and all falts or Errors Corrected Never befor thytim brought to Light^[1]
• 1700 Len's Flag Chart
• Table des Pavillons quel on arbore dans toutes les Parties du Monde Connu (Peter Schenk the Elder)^[2]
• early 18th century: A new table of all the names of the principal parts and rigging of a man of war^[3]
• 1772 French French: Encyclopédie|nocat=y
• 1783 Bowles's Universal Display of the Naval Flags of all Nations
• 1799 Flags of all Nations
• 1848 German: Flaggen Aller Seefahrenden Nationen
• 1868 Johnson's new chart of national emblems
• 1889 Drawings of Flags of All Nations - British Admiralty
• 1917 National Geographic Flag Book

See also

• Blue Ensign
• Red Ensign
• White Ensign
• Green harp flag

External links

• Green Ensign at FOTW site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nieuwe Tafel van alle de Scheeps Vlaggen des Gehele Water-Waerelds op Nieus Vermeerdert en Verbeeterdt COLLBN Port 144 N 151 | Digital Collections.
2. Web site: Table des Pavillons quel on arbore dans toutes les Parties du Monde Connu, Consernant la Marine... | Royal Museums Greenwich. www.rmg.co.uk.
3. Web site: A new table of all the names of the principal parts and rigging of a man of war. www.loc.gov.