Comments by "Not shaped for sportive tricks" (@notshapedforsportivetricks2912) on "Drachinifel"
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I might have been spending too much time watching Dr. Sheldon Cooper's "Fun with Flags", but the purpose of both ensigns and jacks is to: a) identify the nationality of a ship and b) to identify it as a naval vessel. Or, in the case of the Bolivian navy's jack, to induce seizures in the enemy when they see it flapping in the breeze.
Strictly, jacks fly fron the jack staff while the ensign can fly from either the ensign staff or a masthead.
In Commonwealth navies, a white ensign is usually flown from the ensign staff while the national flag is used as a jack. Republican nations like the US use the national flag as the ensign, and so had to invent a jack for the navy. The french use the tricolour for both, while the canadians can't make up their bloody minds.
Also, in Commonwealth navies, the jack is only flown when a ship is at anchor or tied up alongside. Both it and the ensign are raised ar Colours and lowered at Sunset.
As far as I know, the only flag generally flown continuously is the ship's commissioning pennant, which is only lowered when the ship is decomussioned.
And so to string theory.
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