Difference between the French and the Dutch flags

[Daedelus]

Best way to remember is when hoisting the French courtesy ensign remind the crew to be careful not to hoist it upside down, when they have finally realised and sworn at you it will stick in the brain.

ANyway, the maritime tricilour isn't in thirds. Check it out.

 

[johnalison]

There is considerable discussion in the Netherlands at the moment about the change in the blue colour of currently available ensigns. The old ensigns used to be an attractive paleish blue that was very distinctive, but current ones have the same boring dark blue as everyone else.

Dutch sailors are divided between those whose either like the new colour or haven't noticed, and those who are bewailing the passing of an old tradition.

 

[Sybarite]

German is horizontal, Belgian vertical. Just what he said, or implied anyway.

I have an odd way of remembering. There is a dialect of German "Plat-Deutsch" this means low or flat german. Thus German flag is flat. Works for me.

We see so many Dutch flags here I don't have trouble remembering them.

German - flat heads

 

[boguing]

Best way to remember is when hoisting the French courtesy ensign remind the crew to be careful not to hoist it upside down, when they have finally realised and sworn at you it will stick in the brain.

That's how I've always thought. Dutch, sensible, can't hoist it wrong. French, not so.

 

[Marmalade]

Holland and Huns Horizontal

 

[westhinder]

but wrong way around.

and different order of colours

 

[PeterGibbs]

The way I tell the difference between the French and Dutch flags is that the Dutch are more laid back, thus so is their flag!

Quite - a more diplomatic approach than on my boat - French stripes are vertical, reflecting a certain characteristic for which they have long been famous.....

All right then, several characteristics....

PWG

 

[alan_d]

French stripes are vertical, reflecting a certain characteristic for which they have long been famous.....

Upright, erect, upstanding???

 

[pieter2]

A French ship sinking shows a Dutch flag.
A Dutch ship does not sink.

 

[nigelmercier]

Well I'm confused, I thought the French had a white flag.

 

[bendyone]

Wouldn't it be better if we all had theses ?

 

[rotrax]

Would you be so disrespectful to your national flag / ensign, as to let it fall apart so only 1/3 of it was left? Shamefull

Yes- but they are french after all.............

 

[Daedelus]

"Well if you look at both flags and think of both of them after they have aged quite a bit, the ends will become damaged due to flogging in the breeze. Despite this even if a third or more of the flag is gone you will still be able to recognise the Dutch flag, unlike the French one, because with a third or gone it will be a Blue and White one or just a blue one. "


A true French flag (as espoused by the French Navy) has the stripes of different thicknesses.


"Currently, the flag is 50 percent wider than its height (i.e. in the proportion 2:3) and, except in the French navy, has stripes of equal width. Initially, the three stripes of the flag were not equally wide, being in the proportions 30 (blue), 33 (white) and 37 (red). Under Napoleon I, the proportions were changed to make the stripes' width equal, but by a regulation dated 17 May 1853, the navy went back to using the 30:33:37 proportions, which it continues to use, as the flapping of the flag makes portions farther from the halyard seem smaller."


Amazing the things you find out in French conversation classes.

 

[Chris_Robb]

The Dutch do it lying down, the French standing up.
Childish, but works for me

I can never remember which way round it is.... Then I remember the lovely Silvi......

 

[2nd_apprentice]

and different order of colours

Quite so and easy to remember as the German flag got it all wrong by violating the rule of tincture. Metal should not be put on metal nor colour on colour (white and yellow standing for argent and or, whereas sable stands for the tincture black and counts as a colour).

 

[geoid96]

.....but when approaching Cherbourg and searching for the required courtesy flag, how do you remember which is the French and which is the 'T' ?

 

[Koeketiene]

.....but when approaching Cherbourg and searching for the required courtesy flag, how do you remember which is the French and which is the 'T' ?

Quite easily I would have thought.

Tango

France

 

[Grumpybear]

Wouldn't it be better if we all had theses ?

Of course not. Stop trying to make trouble.

 

[prv]

.....but when approaching Cherbourg and searching for the required courtesy flag, how do you remember which is the French and which is the 'T' ?

Simples - I don't have a Flag Tango on board

Pete

 

[geoid96]

Quite easily I would have thought.

Tango


France

I know which is which. In light of the original thread, I was just wondering if anyone had any interesting way of remembering which colour was to the hoist and fly of each.