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Naval Rank Flags (Thailand)

Flaming Chakra emblem on Thai military flags
Commander-in-Chief of the Navy
Commander of a Fleet
Commander of a Coastal Station
Admiral of the Fleet Rank Flag
Admiral Rank Flag
Vice Admiral Rank Flag
Rear Admiral Rank Flag
Commodore Rank Flag

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Flaming Chakra emblem on Thai military flags

This might be off the top of my head but knowing that the first ships of the Thai Navy were steam ships and having heard of the rather bizarre story that the Siam Steamship Company "donated" these ships to the Navy I am wondering if this emblem could be the steampaddle wheels.

Mats, 13 January 1999

Pedersen 1971 refers to them as rosettes but also has them with the points going the other direction. The description of the naval jack in Flaggenbuch 1939 names the device as a chakra.

Michael P. Smuda, 13 January 1999

It is a chakra, the same religiously related symbol as found on the flag of India, and some other flags of the region (Sikkim).

Zeljko Heimer, 13 January 1999

I have received from the Thai Embassy in Paris plates on rank flags, with these chakras used also for Minister of Defence and for the Chiefs of Joint Staff and Army Staff. Another plate received from the French attaché in Bangkok mentions "Chakra or wheel".

Armand Noel du Payrat, 13 January 1999

While researching the different flags of Thailand, the device was called a chakra.

Calvin Paige Herring, 13 January 1999

In the Singha Beer Thong Thai flag site, the devices in admiral rank flags are definitely called flaming Chakkras (with a double "k"), which probably is the most correct term.

Santiago Dotor, 13 January 1999

For the wheels in Thai admiral flags, they are "discus" (Cak). The discuses appear on the rank of Thai admirals in the same way as stars appear for American admirals. I am not so sure if the Royal Thai Navy will have more information about their flags.

Wisarut, 29 October 1999