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These rank flags were first published in Album
des Pavillons (2000). For all of the Vice Admiral, Rear Admiral, and
Commodore flags and pennant, the lion is red - I saw the flag two months ago in
Colombo. Album
des Pavillons (2000) earlier showed it as golden, but that is an error.
Michel Lupant, 19 June 2005
![[Sri Lanka vice admiral]](../images/l/lk~vad.gif)
image by
Željko Heimer
According to Album des Pavillons (2000), the
ratio is given as ~2:3.
Martin Grieve, 27 July 2002
A white flag with a red anchor ensigned with a red lion passant holding
the sword and in base three red six-pointed stars, two and one. The red used
here is neither the brown-red of the national flag, nor the "normal" red, but
kind of a carmine. Just as the red in national flag is often replaced with
normal red in practice, I guess it may be case here, too.
Željko Heimer, 25 January 2003
![[Sri Lanka rear admiral]](../images/l/lk~rad.gif)
image by
Željko Heimer
According to Album des Pavillons (2000), the
ratio is given as ~2:3.
Martin Grieve, 27 July 2002
A white flag with a red anchor ensigned with a red lion passant holding
the sword and in base two red six-pointed stars.
Željko Heimer, 25 January 2003
A web site called
Rank Insignia of
the World shows a table indicating that rear admiral is the highest ranking
officer in the Sri Lankan Navy. The chart looks like it was probably scanned
from the series of "Country Studies" formerly produced by various contract
researchers for the U.S. Department of the Army and subsequently by the Library
of Congress.
Joe McMillan, 28 January 2003
![[Sri Lanka commodore]](../images/l/lk~comm.gif)
image by
Željko Heimer
According to Album des Pavillons (2000), the
ratio is given as ~2:3. I have altered it to show it exactly at 2:3.
Martin Grieve, 27 July 2002
A white flag with a red anchor ensigned with a red lion passant holding
the sword and in base one red six-pointed star.
Željko Heimer, 25 January 2003
![[Sri Lanka masthead pennant]](../images/l/lk~wp.gif)
image by
Željko Heimer
A white trapezoidal pennant with red cabled anchor ensigned with a red
lion passant holding the sword near the hoist. Notably here the emblem contains
the cable around the anchor. I don't know how significant that is.
Željko Heimer, 25 January 2003
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