HELP ... The RED DUSTER

I need to clarify ...

Was our WW2 RED ENSIGN called the THE RED DUSTER as a CANADIAN nickname for our WW2 Canadian Flag ... or a nickname given some other "RED ENSIGN" ???

Thanks ... Karmen

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally posted by Vets Dottir
I need to clarify ...

Was our WW2 RED ENSIGN called the THE RED DUSTER as a CANADIAN nickname for our WW2 Canadian Flag ... or a nickname given some other "RED ENSIGN" ???

Thanks ... Karmen

Hi Karmen;

If I'm not mistaken, the 'RED DUSTER' was the Ensign flown by ships of the Merchant Marine (or Merchant Navy).

Cheers

[Mark W. Tonner]

Hi Karmen;

The 'RED DUSTER' of the Merchant Marine (Merchant Navy):

Now I know I'm totally confused : ... and gpoing off talking to others about something that I don't kinow that I don't know about ::
Rukkenfrukkin$)&##43@%&$# anyways ... I misunderstood something someone "taught" me

oi oi oi oi oi

Thanks a lot for that info Mark ... and here, to show my embarrassing ignorance even more ... RED ENSIGN was NOT just a Canadian Flag then ... THAT is where I went wrong.

RED ENSIGN 101 is what I'll be needin' then.

Karmen.

Originally posted by Mark W. Tonner
Hi Karmen;

The 'RED DUSTER' of the Merchant Marine (Merchant Navy):

Quite so, and the White Ensign for Her Majesty's Royal Navy (and the Royal Yacht Squadron)

Up to 1965 the Canadian Navy used the Blue Ensign defaced.

R.

[wayne c. petrie]

Hi Karmen
Check out this web site
http://www.webmaster_tool.co.uk/flag.../flags_018.htm .

Wayne

Thanks to you Master R and Master Wayne ... I was getting one heckuva headache from those headbangs and between all of your replies I can stop banging now as I get unconfused and more learned regards Red Duster, Red Ensigns, and and and ...

Karmen

[Pete Ashby]

Quite so, and the White Ensign for Her Majesty's Royal Navy (and the Royal Yacht Squadron)

Quite so old boy, good to see you survived the ritual defrocking

(Just got my copy nudge nudge wink wink)

Pete

Originally posted by Pete Ashby
Quite so old boy, good to see you survived the ritual defrocking

(Just got my copy nudge nudge wink wink)

Pete

Well; yes and no. Perhaps you shouldn't be communicating with an outcast and pariah; I'm not to be trusted y'know.

I have a sheaf of documents that make the mag statements somewhat, shall we say, innacurate, and therefore the letter also therein, of course there is no right of reply but that is apparently entirely fair and reasonable.

Now, should that fightfully nice Mr Binnington-Spall make a bit of web space available I'll upload the lot for everyone to see; best if you're sitting down perhaps.


Talking of magazines, strange that Mrs. Notton didn't get her copy, could it be that might of "Clause 11 of the Articles of Association" have been applied in an uncharitable (pun intended) and sweeping manner? Surely not.
:

R.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by FV623
Quite so, and the White Ensign for Her Majesty's Royal Navy (and the Royal Yacht Squadron)

Up to 1965 the Canadian Navy used the Blue Ensign defaced.

R.

The pic you showed has the [defaced] 1957-pattern crest, with the red leaves and the sanitized Irish harp. Tsk-tsk. I've sold probably 30 of the WW2 Red Ensigns to members of the Canadian Merchant Navy Veterans Association... by word of mouth. They love them!