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Sri Lanka Naval Rank Flags

Vice Admiral
Rear Admiral
Commodore
Masthead Pennant

These rank flags were first published in Album des Pavillons (2000)

See also:

Vice Admiral

by Zeljko Heimer

According to Album des Pavillons (2000), the ratio is given as ~2:3.
Martin Grieve, 27 July 2002

A white flag with a red anchor ensigned with a golden lion passant holding the sword and in base three red six-pointed stars, two and one. The red used here is neither the brown-red of the national flag, nor the "normal" red, but kind of a carmine. Just as the red in national flag is often replaced with normal red in practice, I guess it may be case here, too.
Zeljko Heimer, 25 January 2003

Rear Admiral

by Zeljko Heimer

According to Album des Pavillons (2000), the ratio is given as ~2:3.
Martin Grieve, 27 July 2002

A white flag with a red anchor ensigned with a golden lion passant holding the sword and in base two red six-pointed stars.
Zeljko Heimer, 25 January 2003

A web site called Rank Insignia of the World shows a table indicating that rear admiral is the highest ranking officer in the Sri Lankan Navy. The chart looks like it was probably scanned from the series of "Country Studies" formerly produced by various contract researchers for the U.S. Department of the Army and subsequently by the Library of Congress.
Joe McMillan, 28 January 2003

Commodore

by Zeljko Heimer

According to Album des Pavillons (2000), the ratio is given as ~2:3. I have altered it to show it exactly at 2:3.
Martin Grieve, 27 July 2002

A white flag with a red anchor ensigned with a golden lion passant holding the sword and in base one red six-pointed star.
Zeljko Heimer, 25 January 2003

Masthead Pennant

by Zeljko Heimer

A white trapezoidal pennant with red cabled anchor ensigned with a golden lion passant holding the sword near the hoist. Notably here the emblem contains the cable around the anchor. I don't know how significant that is.
Zeljko Heimer, 25 January 2003