Trumpeter’s HMS Eskimo Destroyer 1941 1:350 - by “Toom”:
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Nicely done.
Very nice.
Good job except that I am puzzled by the huge ensign flying at the jack staff. Where did the did that idea come from?
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subfixer, I think you mean the flag at the head of the ship. I look up the instruction sheets, in the color painting guide, the flag is there.
So? The instructions were written by someone who obviously doesn’t have a clue about where, when or what flags are supposed to be flown. Ship’s flags aren’t decorations like you see on a yacht, they have purposes.
Funny but there’s pictures of that set up on RN ships, and in particular on tribal class DDs. I’ve researched it high and low and don’t have a real answer. There’s some amount of an old tradition that a rigged warship shipped her stern ensign to clear the mizzen boom, and raised it on a staff in the bowsprit trees as a sort of “cleared for action” look.
On the other hand ships normally stored the jack staff when cleared for action to prevent the front turret from destroying it.
I think it’s a parade set up, and leave it to the Brits.