Socialist Yugoslavia: Signals for non-military ships
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Socialist Yugoslavia: Signals for non-military ships
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In 1950 were issued the Rules on displaying and hoisting of the
flag of the merchant marine and the ships of inland navigation
(
Pravilnik o isticanju i vijanju zastave trgovačke mornarice i
brodarstva unutrašnje plovidbe FNRJ i znakova na brodovima trgovačke
mornarice i brodarstva unutrašnje plovidbe
), published in
Službeni list FNRJ
, 45/50 and 20/51 (amendment). It is
of little doubt that this rules were complementing the 1950 Law on
the establishemnt of the
merchant
ensign
. The rules were amended once again in
Pravilnik o
isticanju i vijanju zastave trgovačke mornarice SFRJ
,
published in
Službeni list FNRJ
, 2/81.
Željko Heimer
, 15 October 2003
Administrative signal
![[Administrative signal]](../images/y/yu~1950a.gif)
Administrative signal
- Image by
Željko Heimer
, 15 October 2003
The administrative signal (
znak brodova pomorske uprave
)
was prescribed for use by the ships and boats in service of the
maritime administration. The flag is blue, square with two white
crossed anchors.
The exact name of the signal was changed eventually in the
regulations in Croatia and
Slovenia
in the
early 1990s, but the design of the flag was retained.
Croatia
adopted, however a more elaborated
design, including the national coat of arms and a border. I presume
that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Serbia and
Montenegro also continued to use the same flag.
Until the prescription of the
river police
pennant
in 1962, the same administrative signal was used by
inland river authorities, mainly on Danube and Sava.
Source:
Pomorska enciklopedija VII: Zastava
,
Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod, Zagreb, 1964.
Željko Heimer
, 15 October 2003
Privileged navigation signal
![[Privileged navigation signal]](../images/y/yu~1950c.gif)
Privileged navigation signal
- Image by
Željko Heimer
, 15 October 2003
The 1950 regulations also prescribed the privileged navigation
signal (
znak brodova povlaštene plovidbe
), to be used by the
ships and boats in regular service on lines crossing borders that
were granted special rights simplifying the customs inspection
procedures.
The signal of the privileged navigation is a green square flag
with a white diagonal.
The same signal was prescribed in
Croatia
after 1990s.
Source:
Pomorska enciklopedija VII: Zastava
,
Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod, Zagreb, 1964.
Željko Heimer
, 15 October 2003
Postal signal
The third signal prescribed in 1950 is the postal signal (
znak
brodova koji prevoze postu
) for the ships and boats carrying
mail.
The design is unknown to me except the fact that it included the
postal horn. Such a
signal
was prescribed in Yugoslavia before the
Second World War (a square tricolor flag with a wide white stripe
charged with a blue posthorn) and also by the
Independent State of Croatia
(the same
flag but triangular with the order of stripes changed).
At some point the postal signal was dropped, as it is not
mentioned in the 1990s regulations either in Croatia or Slovenia. It
may be that the aforementioned 1981 amendment dropped it.
Source:
Pomorska enciklopedija VII: Zastava
,
Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod, Zagreb, 1964.
Željko Heimer
, 15 October 2003
River Police pennant
The River Police pennant (
Znak plovila u upravnoj službi
unutrašnje plovidbe
, literally, signal of a vessel in
administrative service of inland navigation) was prescribed by Law
Pravilnik o izmjeni i dopuni Pravilnika o isticanju i vijanju
zastave trgovačke mornarice i brodarstva unutrašnje plovidbe FNRJ i
znakova na brodovima trgovačke mornarice i brodarstva unutrašnje
plovidbe
, adopted on 22 December 1962 and published in
Službeni list FNRJ
, 43/52 [sic! more probably, 43/62].
The administrative vessels on the rivers used the blue square
administrative signal
since its adoption in 1950
until 1962 when it was replaced with a new signal. It was a white
pennant with a blue border inscribed with the number of the ship
(according to
Pomorska enciklopedija
), but the exact design is
unknown. A similar signal was adopted by the authorities of the
Danube countries (
Austria
,
Hungary
) following the
Danube Commission
recommendation. A
similar signal was also prescribed in
Croatia
in the 1990s. The terse
description in
Pomorska enciklopedija
allows many different
interpretations. The most strightforward of them is a white square
flag with a blue border and a black number in the middle, but I doubt
that this was so, and it goes much more probably for a white
triangular pennant with a blue voided horizontal lozenge with number
in it, as are the River Police pennants in other Danube states.
Source:
Pomorska enciklopedija VII: Zastava
,
Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod, Zagreb, 1964.
Željko Heimer
, 20 October 2003