Re: FB - emblems

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>Greetings All,
>     The 'Jack' is a small flag flown on the bow of a (war) ship
>when it is in port.   The 'Union Jack' is both the U.S.A. and the
>U.K., when refering to this small flag.   For the U.K. it is the
>'Union Jack' that we all know.   For the U.S.A. it is the blue field
>of stars from the national flag.
>     For the U.K. the national flag at the stern has a red, white,
>or blue field attached and is called an 'ensign'.
>     Exactly what determines the assignment of the colored ensigns
>is not known to me.

The White Ensign is for warships, the Red Ensign for merchants; not sure
about the blue one.

Jon (GZG)