[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 33CFR23.15]

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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
          CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 23--DISTINCTIVE MARKINGS FOR COAST GUARD VESSELS AND AIRCRAFT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 23.15  Coast Guard ensign.

    The Coast Guard ensign has sixteen perpendicular stripes alternate 
red and white, beginning with the red at the hoist. In the upper 
quarter, next to the hoist, is the union, being the Coat of Arms of the 
United States, in dark blue on a white field, half of the length of the 
flag, and extending down the hoist halfway. The distinctive emblem of 
the Coast Guard in blue and white is placed with its center on a line 
with the lower

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edge of the union and over the center of the seventh vertical red stripe 
from the hoist of the flag, the emblem covering a horizontal space of 
three stripes.

[CGFR 57-35, 22 FR 6765, Aug. 22, 1957]