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by Željko Heimer
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The emblem on Malaysia's naval ensign consists of an anchor and two crossed traditional daggers (called kris). In Jane's Fighting Ships [jfs] the colour of the emblem is black, but I think dark blue is the appropriate colour. At least it is depicted as blue in Pedersen 1970 [ped70]. According to Pedersen, the naval ensign was introduced in 1968. The national flag in the canton is outlined with a thin red line, so that the bottom white stripe appears correctly on the white field.
Jan Oskar Engene, 19 September 1996
White ensign with the national flag in the canton and a blue emblem in the lower fly. The emblem consists of a fouled anchor and two kris daggers in saltire. Source: Album des Pavillons 2000 [pay00].
The Shipmate flag chart [vdv00] shows (online image here) a somewhat more elaborate emblem than the one in Album des Pavillons 2000 [pay00], with decorated daggers, more intricate pomels and both stand on top of the anchor, which is made clear using white fimbriations. On the other hand, Smith 1982 [smi82] shows the emblem without any "void" parts in the daggers, and remarkably, the canton is about only 1/3 of hoist high (while still half the length long). Was there ever such unusually cantoned flag?
Željko Heimer, 25 May 2002
I received on 24 May 2002 a photo of the naval ensign taken by Michel Lupant in his recent trip to Malaysia: the canton was half as high as the hoist and the daggers had no "void" parts.
Armand du Payrat, editor of [pay00], 27 May 2002
According to Barraclough and Crampton 1981 [bcr81] the Malaysian jack is the same as the national flag.
Santiago Dotor, 4 May 1999
