Our sister service to the North the Royal Canadian Navy has announced they have adopted a new ensign for their naval vessels.
Turns out, the Royal Canadian Navy’s motto is similar to the Coast Guard’s ‘Ready Aye Ready’
Chuck Hill's CG Blog
Our sister service to the North the Royal Canadian Navy has announced they have adopted a new ensign for their naval vessels.
Turns out, the Royal Canadian Navy’s motto is similar to the Coast Guard’s ‘Ready Aye Ready’
Chuck Hill's CG Blog 
No. They are adapting a logo featuring their current ensign.
“Ready Aye Ready” is also the motto of the UK’s Sea Cadet Corps.
x, thanks, quite correct. It became the ensign in 2013. There is a fuller explanation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Naval_Ensign
It won’t be long before the Union flag is removed from the naval ensigns of Australia and New Zealand.
( BZ Kevin Vickers. RIP Corporal Cirillo.)
Well said. Love that the law makers were arming themselves with makeshift spears when they heard the shooting. Hope our law makers would be as feisty.
Unlike the Canadian flag, the Australian and New Zealand national flags still incorporate the Union flag design, so less reason to remove it.
Incidentally the state flag of Hawaii also includes it as well.
I regret that our lot would probably be tweeting “go away please #badman” as fast as their fingers would let them. In the UK the role of Sergeant-at-Arms is now little more than that of a building manager. It was traditionally a post held by former military of quite high rank. Now in the name of diversity and inclusiveness it is open to all and it hasn’t been a good move.
re flags of Australia and New Zealand.
There are moves afoot in both countries to get the Union Flag removed from their own flags. New Zealand will probably be first with the silver fern being the replacement symbol.
Yes, the empire is not an empire any more. If Scotland had voted yes for independence, the union flag would not have looked the same itself any more (most likely). The first US Revolutionary War flag also included the union in its canton…