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![[proposal for Polish navy ensign (1919)]](../images/p/pl!1919b.gif)
by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
In 1919 marine painter Wlodzimierz Nalecz published in magazine "Bandera Polska" (1st number, dated May 1919) his own proposals for navy and merchant ensigns:
![[proposal for Polish merchant ensign (1919)]](../images/p/pl!1919c.gif)
by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
![[alternative proposal for merchant ensign (1919)]](../images/p/pl!1919d.gif)
by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
![[First proposal for Polish naval ensign (1918)]](../images/p/pl!1918a.gif)
by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
First proposal for Polish naval ensign in 20th Century was designed by group of Poles, former officers of Imperial Russian Navy in Sevastopol (Ukraine) in 1918. It was white with amaranth saltire and White Eagle on amaranth centered disc.
In November 1918 this ensign was hoisted on s/s "Polonja" in Batumi (Georgia). "Polonja" was former Russian steamship "Chyatura". Its owner was Polish businessman from Baku, Stefan Rylski, and captain was Jan Bartoszewicz. But somebody noticed, that proposal from Sevastopol was designed as naval ensign, not merchant. So, soon on "Polonja" was hoisted another ensign: white with amaranth saitire and White Eagle in canton.
As proposal for Polish merchant ensign may be treaten also house flag of Polish-American Navigation Corporation from New York, adopted in April 1919. It was white with red lozenge and White Eagle, uncrowned (pl!1919a). Polish-American Navigation Corporation was a shipping company founded by Polish Americans. It had 7 steamships and existed 1919-1920.
Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
![[Proposal for Polish merchant ensign (1918)]](../images/p/pl!1918b.gif)
by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
![[Other proposal for Polish merchant ensign (1919)]](../images/p/pl!1919a.gif)
by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
Polish American Navigation Co, New York (1919-23) (Source: verbal description in North Atlantic Seaway IV:1557)
This was a line put together after World War I as a surrogate national line as the newly independent Republic of Poland was getting on its feet. A version of this flag by Grzegorz Skrukwa from August of this year, crude looking but perhaps accurate, is already on FOTW as one of several proposed designs for a Polish merchant ensign. The flag was white with a red lozenge bearing an white eagle.
Joe Mcmillan, 15 Nov 2001
![[Proposal for War Ensign 1919]](../images/p/pl!1919e.gif)
by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
Proposal for War Ensign discussed and accepted on conference under chairmanship of Vice-Admiral Kazimierz Porebski in Naval Section of Ministry of Military Affairs, 3 April 1919. Ratio 1:2
Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
![[flag of the Navy (1) 1919]](../images/p/pl!1919f.gif)
by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
Proposals discussed on conference under chairmanship of Vice-Admiral Kazimierz Porebski in Naval Section of Ministry of Military Affairs, 3 April 1919, and accepted as "flag of the Navy", two alternative variants.
Probably these flags were provided to be jacks. Ratio 1:1,5.
Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
![[flag of the Navy (2) 1919]](../images/p/pl!1919g.gif)
by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
![[Proposal for State Ensign 1919]](../images/p/pl!1919h.gif)
by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
Proposal for State Ensign discussed and accepted on conference under chairmanship of Vice-Admiral Kazimierz Porebski in Naval Section of Ministry of Military Affairs, 3 April 1919. Ratio 1:2
Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
![[Rejected proposal #1]](../images/p/pl!1919i.gif)
by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
Proposals discussed on conference under chairmanship of Vice-Admiral Kazimierz Porebski in Naval Section of Ministry of Military Affairs, 3 April 1919, not accepted. Ratio of all 1:2
Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001
![[Rejected proposal #2]](../images/p/pl!1919j.gif)
by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001![[Rejected proposal #3]](../images/p/pl!1919k.gif)
by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 5 Aug 2001