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Originally Posted by tater
IThe flags are considerably smaller than my (unreleased) small flags mod. They might also be signal flags.
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Good point. Here is my own picture of the standard US ensign on my destroyer. Not big at all.
The following is from Section 5 of NTP13B, published in 1986, but in agreement with the practice as I knew it in 1970, and almost certainly during the Second World War. I've looked for primary wartime sources, but they seem to be scarce online.
So a battleship 'daily' flag at sea would be 5' tall and 9' 6" long, and a destroyer flag would be 3' 6" tall and 6' 7-3/4" long. I doubt that there would be much variation between different navies.
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b. When cruising under wartime conditions, it is customary to fly the national ensign continuously at sea, since battle action may be regarded as always imminent.
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The full document can be found here:
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/images/ntp13b.pdf