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a b Naval History & Heritage Command (April 10, 2001). "Frequently Asked Questions: Commissioning Pennant". The first salutes to an American Flag from foreign nations came when American ships in the West Indies were sailing under the Grand Union Flag, not the Stars and Stripes, flag the Union or the Grand Union. Many historians agree they are all talking about the British Union Flag. One of these writers even says a second Sons of Liberty Flag was flying underneath it. If that is the case, the British Red Ensign and Sons of Liberty Flag may have simply gotten mixed together in popular folklore

In the 19th century the ensigns were quite large; the biggest ensign in 1870 measured 19 by 36 feet (5.8 by 11.0m). By the early 20th century, as warships took on distinctive forms and could no longer be easily mistaken for merchantmen at a distance, ensigns began to shrink and today are a fraction of their earlier size — the largest ensign for daily use on ships is now 5 by 9.5 feet (1.5 by 2.9m). [6] Historians are uncertain who made the first Grand Union Flag or who chose it to represent the united colonies. There are however, a few possibilities:• Margaret Manny, a Philadelphia seamstress has Schuyler who was an officer in the campaign. The watercolor was signed by Schuyler and clearly shows the Grand Union Flag On December 3rd of that year, it was raised aboard Captain Esek Hopkin's flagship Alfredby John Paul Jones, who at that time was a young lieutenant in the Navy. Power Squadrons ensign [ edit ] The United States Power Squadrons ensign, as a signal, indicates membership of the organization.The U.S. Yacht Ensign (a variation of the national ensign; see below) is often used in place of the national flag by U.S. pleasure craft when operating within U.S. waters; this flag was legally required for licensed yachts from 1848 to 1980, and the practice continues among all U.S. pleasure craft in U.S. waters by longstanding historical use and custom. Additionally, a few smaller pleasure craft operated by members of the United States Power Squadrons will fly the U.S. Power Squadrons flag as an ensign in inland waters in lieu of the national flag (see below). All vessels of U.S. national character should display the national ensign when operating in international and non-U.S. waters. The Grand Union Flag was the de facto first U.S. naval ensign. It was first raised aboard Continental Navy Commodore Esek Hopkins' flagship Alfred on the Delaware River on December 3, 1775; John Paul Jones, then the ship's senior lieutenant, personally claimed this honor. [2] Thirteen horizontal stripes alternating red and white; in the canton, 50 white stars on a blue field River. The Alfred's First Lieutenant, John Paul Jones, raised the Grand Union Flag aboard the Alfred, as well as the Gadsden Flag, which was the standard of the Navy's first Commodore, Esek Hopkins.

This flag was flown as the unofficial American flag until June 14, 1777, when the Continental Congress authorized the Stars and Stripes. American flag, though unofficial, of the United States until the Flag Resolution of 1777, which was passed on June 14, 1777, making the 13 star flag Military ensigns [ edit ] The naval ensign and its first salute [ edit ] First official salute to the U.S. flag on board the U.S. warship Andrew Doria in a foreign port, at St. Eustatius in the West Indies, on November 16, 1776 Hamilton, Schuyler (1853). History of the National Flag of the United States of America. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. Prior to being flown by the Colonial fleet, this flag was first raised by General George Washington on January 1, 1776, at Prospect Hill in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay.Federal Yachts Ensign Act of 1848 ~ P.L. 30-141" (PDF). 9 Stat. 274 ~ House Bill 178. Legis★Works. August 7, 1848. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 11, 2015 . Retrieved July 5, 2017. widespread use, but it was never officially chosen by Congress. Questions about the appearance of the Grand Union Flag The flag has had several names, at least five of which have been popularly remembered. The more recent moniker, "Grand Union Flag", was first applied in the 19th-century Reconstruction era by George Henry Preble, in his 1872 History of the American Flag. [8]

In the Sliders episode Prince of Wails, set in a reality where the American Revolution was successfully suppressed, it serves as the flag of the British States of America, a heavily taxed and dictatorially-governed corner of the British Empire. DeLear, Byron (2014). "Revisiting the Flag at Prospect Hill: Grand Union or Just British?" (PDF). Raven: A Journal of Vexillology. 21: 54. doi: 10.5840/raven2014213. with the colonial attitude for them to raise a version of the "Rebellious Stripes" as their official flag. From 1910 onwards, the U.S. Customs Service has continued to use the plain version of the ensign, while the Revenue Cutter Service (which became the Coast Guard) used the defaced version (version with the badge).The design of the Colours is strikingly similar to the flag of the British East India Company (EIC). Indeed, certain EIC designs in use since 1707 (when the canton was changed from the flag of England to that of the flag of Great Britain) were nearly identical. However, the number of stripes varied from 9 to 15. One theory on the origin of the design is that the American colonists would have known and been familiar with the existing EIC flags and that this may have influenced the design. [13] Cooper, Grace Rogers (1973). Thirteen-Star Flags: Keys to Identification (Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology. No. 21ed.). Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp.10–11. Other historians have pointed out that there is no contemporary evidence identifying the colors of the stripes:• In the other letters that mention the flag flown at Prospect Hill, The combined crosses in the flag of Great Britain symbolized the union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. The symbolism of a union of equal parts was retained in the new U.S. flag, as described in the Flag Resolution of 14 June 1777 (later celebrated in U.S. culture and history as " Flag Day").