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Ensigns and Jack (Spain)

Pabellones y Torrotito

Jack (Torrotito or Bandera de Tajamar)
Yachts Ensign (Ensign for Recreational Vessels)
Customs Police Ensign (Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera)
Coast Guard European Ensign?

See also:

Jack

Torrotito or Bandera de Tajamar

1:1
by Michael P. Smuda

The naval jack is a square banner of the arms, without Granada. Source: Brockhous Enzyklopaedie 1968.

Pascal Vagnat, 2 May 1996

The Spanish jack is a banner-of-arms of the Spanish escutcheon (quarterly Castile, Leon, Aragon and Navarre), without Granada on the point. The Spanish term for jack is torrotito or more properly bandera de tajamar. Source: Calvo and Grávalos 1983.

Santiago Dotor, 28 December 1998

The GIF of the Spanish jack is based on Pedersen 1971.

Michael P. Smuda, 11 January 1999

In the new official Spanish coat-of-arms (and, thus, in the jack) the lion should not be red but purple (though officially this is represented as a shade of violet pink).

Armand Noel du Payrat, 11 January 1999

Yachts Ensign

Ensign for Recreational Vessels / Enseña para Embarcaciones de Recreo

Variant 1
by Santiago Dotor

Variant 2
by Santiago Dotor

Variant 3
by Santiago Dotor and António Martins

The Spanish national ensign for yachts is a Spanish flag with a blue crown centered in the yellow stripe (and no coat-of-arms).

Santiago Dotor, 6 May 1999

According to Calvo and Grávalos 1983, "at some point between 1975 and 1977" —which was certainly in the 1977 Decree on flags— the crown was once again changed to a royal all-blue flag. I ignore whether the 1977 Decree included a graphical design or only a description, and Calvo and Grávalos 1983 does not include it. In Spanish ports I have seen several versions, most of them fitting one of the above two.

Santiago Dotor, 25 June 1999

Spanish magazine ？ola! (no.2767, 21 August 1997, page 94) shows this flag in yet another variation. A bullfighter is shown in his yacht and the ensign at the bow [stern? - ed.] is well visible, even if not completely unfurled. It seems to be a 30x45 cm flag, and the shade of blue is darker than in Santiago Dotor's images (I used RGB:0-0-153). The crown is also neither variant, but a compromise between them (solid cushion, outlined stems); the lower ring and the gems on it are however clearly visible.

António Martins, 14 July 1999

Customs Police Ensign

Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera

by Santiago Dotor

Some months ago, I saw a flag on TV news. It was in a story about a drug aprehension in western Andalucia, and the flag was flying from the stern of a small vessel. The story involved the spanish border authorities, and I think that the vessel belonged to that service. The flag was a spanish triband with something like a black stylized balance shifted to the hoist.

Jorge Candeias, 20 December 1998

Customs Police (Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera or Customs Surveillance Service) ships fly a plain Spanish ensign with no coat-of-arms defaced with "HH" (for Hacienda = Treasury; no idea why two initials - maybe the name was originally Haciendas, in plural), both letters crowned with a royal crown all the same colour, both the letters and the crowns are blue. Letters and crowns are offset towards the hoist, as the coat-of-arms is on the National Flag. This is a Guardia Civil (Civil Guard) unit under the authority of the Ministerio de Hacienda (Treasury Ministry), hence the "H". See also the Customs Ensign 1945-1977.

Santiago Dotor, 24 June 1999

Coast Guard European Ensign?

The Spanish Civil Guard (a semimilitary police organization for rural areas, customs and other services) used also in the Coast Guard ships the European flag with the Spanish one in the canton.

Jaume Ollé, 3 August 1998