Green Ensign

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Green Ensign with the St. George's Cross (1701)
Green Ensign with the Union Jack from the 19th century

Green Ensign (German: Green Flag ) is the name of a historical flag that was hoisted by some Irish merchant ships from the 17th to the early 20th century . The green ensign consists of a golden harp on a green field with either the English flag (St. George's Cross) or a version of the Union Jack in Gösch .

The Green Ensign appears in the following selected historical flag panels:

year Flag board
1685 Downham's Flag Chart
1700 Len's Flag Chart
1799 Flags of all Nations
1830s Map of the Old World with border of flags (from the USA )
1848 Flags of all seafaring nations
1851, 1858 A chart of National Flags (from Henry Bill, New York )
1861, 1863 New Chart of National Emblems (New York)
1863 National and Commercial Flags of All Nations
1880s Standards and Flags of All Nations (by Brown & Son , United Kingdom )
1917 National Geographic Flag Book ( National Geographic -Flaggenbuch )

The question of whether the Green Ensign ever had some kind of official status in the British Isles or was only an informal flag of some merchant ships has not yet been clarified.

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