A "what's the flag and on which boat"

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Looks like it's on a chock-staff standing in for a mast that has been sent down. Victory is currently having a rig refit, so I'm guessing it's her. And presumably the flag is an older version of the Union Jack, for example the one current at Trafalgar?

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The nation of Engniwaleland

So, what will be the national flag in 5 years if Scotland becomes independant? Two red crosses (one diagonal) on a white background? And what might our ensign be, will they ALL be white?

Anyone want to come in with me to get some made up in China, we could be first off the block and corner the market!

Oh - HMS Bounty Replica? (AKA The Black Pearl)
 
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Looks like Jamestown Virginia.

Yeah! It was on the Godspeed - one the ships that took the first settlers to Jamestown in 1607 - so it was a new flag then.

We saw the Godspeed in Alexandria three weeks ago when I took the photo but when we went to Jamestown nearly three weeks later she was motoring back into Jamestown.
 

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So, what will be the national flag in 5 years if Scotland becomes independant? Two red crosses (one diagonal) on a white background? And what might our ensign be, will they ALL be white?

Logically, one would think so, but...

Thinking about the flag in the OP's picture, from 1606 to 1707 England and Scotland were independent countries but with the same monarch. The first version of the Union flag would logically have come into use from 1707. If it was in fact used from 1606 (anyone know if it was, or have the Septics got it wrong? They are familiar with the original Union flag from the war of independence.) then it must have symbolised the union of the crowns, which is a bit odd since the respective monarchs had their own flags (one rampant/ three passant lions) which were amalgamated to form (after addition of the Irish harp) the present quartered royal standard (in two forms for use in Scotland and elsewhere).
 
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