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Governmental flag of the Royal Netherlands Navy: Dark blue flag with 4 orange bands on the hoist side; the right lane is not complete. On the other side is the logo of the Royal Netherlands Navy. 2001-2010: Governmental flag of the Royal Netherlands Army: Dark green flag with 4 orange bands on the hoist side; the right lane is not complete.
The Royal Netherlands Navy (Dutch: Koninklijke Marine, pronounced [ˈkoːnɪŋkləkə maːˈrinə]) is the maritime service branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was founded on 8 January 1488, [ 5 ] making it the third-oldest naval force in the world .
The national flag of the Netherlands (Dutch: de Nederlandse vlag) is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. The current design originates as a variant of the late 16th century orange-white-blue Prinsenvlag ("Prince's Flag"), evolving in the early 17th century as the red-white-blue Statenvlag ("States Flag"), the naval flag of the States-General of the Dutch Republic, making the Dutch ...
The broad pennant combination of the English Flag [2] at the hoist and the Dutch National Flag [3] in the fly originates from the Anglo-Dutch wars of the late 17th century, when it was used on Sundays to indicate that a service was in progress and a ceasefire existed between the warring nations.
A church pennant, as used by the Royal Navy, Royal Netherlands Navy and Commonwealth Navies, is a broad pennant flown on ships and at establishments (bases) during religious services, and has the George Cross and Dutch flag incorporated; chosen after the English Dutch Wars where both sides stopped for Church on a Sunday. A similar church ...
The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps (Dutch: Korps Mariniers) is the elite naval infantry corps of the Royal Netherlands Navy, [1] one of the four Armed Forces of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. [2] The marines trace their origins to the establishment of the Regiment de Marine on 10 December 1665, [ 1 ] [ 3 ] by the then grand pensionary of the ...
According to de Waard (1900), the Dutch navy between 1588 and 1630 always displayed the Prince's Flag, and after 1663 always the State's Flag, but both flag variants were in use during the period of 1630–1662. [3] It appears that prior to 1664, the red-white-blue tricolour was commonly known as the "Flag of Holland" (Hollandsche Vlag).
The flags are used to mark the presence of an individual in certain buildings, when on vehicles (e.g. a car or ship), or in an army unit. The flag of the monarch is flown above Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague (the king's private residence) and above Noordeinde Palace in The Hague (the king's official residence) when the monarch is in the Netherlands, but not necessarily when he is actually ...