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Naval jack of the Royal Marechaussee: Triangular flag, the mast side of which has the white colour and the tip is nassau blue. The white area is loaded with an orange Dutch lion, the blue area with the logo of the Marechaussee (the grenade with closed flame). [27] 1934-present: Commissioning pennant
Royal Netherlands Navy jack The US naval jack (2002–2019) being hoisted on USS Kitty Hawk's jackstaff in December 2001 Naval jack of the Irish Naval Service. A jack is a flag flown from a short jackstaff at the bow (front) of a vessel, while the ensign is flown on the stern (rear). Jacks on bowsprits or foremasts appeared in the 17th century.
The Dutch States Navy (Dutch: Staatse vloot) was the navy of the Dutch Republic from 1588 to 1795. Coming into existence during the Eighty Years' War, the States Navy played a major role in expanding and protecting the Dutch colonial empire, in addition to participating in numerous conflicts with rival European powers.
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 ...
Rotation od the Royal Netherlands Navy every 4 to 6 months in support of the Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard. Most often Holland class ship. Netherlands: Frigate: Schelde Naval Shipbuilding: De Zeven Provinciën class – – 6,050 tonnes Cutters (3) Stan Patrol 4100 class: 3 Netherlands: Cutter: Damen Group: Jaguar: P810: Nov 1998: 206 tonnes [63 ...
Flag, jack, and pennant of the Batavian navy. The Batavian Navy (Dutch: Bataafsche marine) was the navy of the Batavian Republic which was a continuation of the Staatse vloot (Dutch for Fleet of the States) of the Dutch Republic.
The Dutch Republic went into decline after 1713, and in the late 18th century its navy was no longer a match for the French and even less for the British navy.An ambitious shipbuilding program in 1780 could not prevent the disastrous Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784); the Dutch agreed to allow British ships free passage throughout the East Indies in the Treaty of Paris which ended the war.