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1:2 image by Martin Grieve, 12 September 2004
This is the official civil ensign for the Isle of Man. The three conjoined
legs are the "triskelion", the symbol of Man. The land flag for the Isle of Man
is red with the triskelion in the centre (no union flag).
Graham Bartram, 7 December 1996.
The defaced Red Ensign which was abolished in 1935 and restored by a
royal proclamation on 18 September 1971.
Pascal Vagnat, 25 September 1998.
Until 1968 the only official British flag that related to the Isle
of Man was that of the Lieutenant Governor. This was the Union Flag
defaced in the centre by a gold trinacria on a red shield on a white
disc surrounded by a laurel leaf garland. The land flag, a gold
trinacria on a red flag, was authorised 9 July 1968. The Red Ensign was
authorised on 27 August 1971. Any Isle of Man Red Ensigns before this
date were probably based on the not uncommon misconception that badges
on Union Flags, Red Ensigns and Blue Ensigns are interchangeable.
David Prothero, 13 August 1999
Barraclough and Crampton say on p.49:
"On 18 September 1971 the Manx Red Ensign was restored for use by all
ships registered in the Isle of Man" but infuriatingly give no other
details. None of my other books mention a previous Manx Red Ensign.
Roy Stilling, 13 August 1999
I received from the Isle of Man Marine administration a CD telling all about
Isle of Man Ship Registry. On the CD are a couple of photos of different ships
specifically using the Isle of Man red ensign as a jack. Can anyone comment on this
practice?
Clay Moss, 3 August 2006
Pedersen (1970) also shows the merchant ensign, a red ensign with the Union Flag in the canton and a clockwise triskelion, with its centre in the middle of the fly half taking up most of that fly half.
Before that? Flaggenbuch (1992) shows the badge only for the Governor of the Isle of Man. In Fahnen und Flaggen (1939), however, Neubecker shows a Red Ensign with a Saint George cross in a, squarish, canton and the field filled with a yellow counter-clockwise triskelion. The shape of the emblem is a bit odd, as if the upper leg was move to make room for the canton. The text gives this as an 18th century example of flags with a governmental canton.
Siegel - Die Flagge (1912) also shows for the Isle of
Man a Red Ensign with a Saint George cross in a, squarish, canton and the
field filled with a similar, yellow, triskelion with in this case one
clockwise foot and two counter-clockwise. For this 18th century flag, he
gives the usual sources: Kieboom, Recueil and Bowles.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 25 November 2010
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 May 2007
Norris and Hobbs (1848) describes a Civil
Ensign, but with a triskelion with reverse rotation.
António Martins-Tuválkin,
24 May 2007