[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 33, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

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 HOMELAND SECURITY

 

PART 23_DISTINCTIVE MARKINGS FOR COAST GUARD VESSELS AND AIRCRAFT

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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 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]