Folding a Union Flag (Navy method)

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8 жыл бұрын

This is for the long Navy version of the flag which is twice as long as it is wide. The flagpole version is usually rolled up and stored in a tube.

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@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039 5 жыл бұрын

Respect for keeping it off the floor.

@kentishman5698 5 жыл бұрын

I was told many years ago that the union flag was called "union jack" when used with the Royal Navy, and "union flag" in other applications.

@gazza2933 4 жыл бұрын

Yes...I believe it is the Union Jack when flown at sea.

@simonrb1942 2 жыл бұрын

@@gazza2933 it's the Union Jack when flown on a Jack staff. I.e. the forecastle flag staff.

@pnyarrow 4 жыл бұрын

Hi. Thanks for the demo and also the respect shown for our flag.. Stay safe in these uncertain times. Nigel

@xenon53827 4 жыл бұрын

Will do, and you!

@user-zu5lb4xv4l 4 ай бұрын

In fact Union Jack flag are all commonly found in the ratio of 1-2

@whomagoose6897 Ай бұрын

Always wondered how National ags were folded. The Union Jack is folded into a triangle just like the American flag. When finished the American flag shows only the blue field with stars.

@bpjcf 5 жыл бұрын

Are there any special techniques for folding the red & the white ensigns?

@xenon53827 5 жыл бұрын

It is possible, but I have never researched into it.

@stephenclackson6843 9 ай бұрын

Could you fold a White Ensign for us next, please.

@LukeIdontKnow Жыл бұрын

Thanls

@sgtsinatra 4 жыл бұрын

Rule Britannia

@nickhowarth3415 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! you're camera moves A LOT!

@xenon53827 5 жыл бұрын

It's actually the cam on my motorcycle helmet! I really needed someone else to hold the cam, but was on my own that day!

@AtlasAlternate 2 жыл бұрын

My flag os made out of like a plastic mesh thing and it didnt work and i hate it

@stewartlee8858 3 жыл бұрын

Is it supposed to be rolled?

@simontaylor2973 3 жыл бұрын

This is just the Royal Navy method. Another recommended method certainly is rolling them up and storing in tubes.

@HUGO-lg5cz 2 жыл бұрын

1:52 I see a flag of the French Republic in Union Jack.

@simonrb1942 2 жыл бұрын

When was this employed? I spent 8 years RN signals and never saw it folded like this. I even attended military funerals.

@xenon53827 2 жыл бұрын

After removal of the flag from the coffin. There is a reference on the following link, scroll down quite a way. www.flaginstitute.org/wp/uk-flags/british-flag-protocol/

@simonrb1942 2 жыл бұрын

@@xenon53827 ok. So it isn't a ceremonial display thing etc. It's specifically to be handed to NOK? Do you know which reference document dictates it? Reason I'm asking is I found one folded today. Not funeral related and it didn't feel kosher (hence googling and finding your video)

@xenon53827 2 жыл бұрын

@@simonrb1942 No idea… The other method was to fold in 4 longways and roll up and stuff in a tube.

@simonrb1942 2 жыл бұрын

@@xenon53827 yea that's how we did it.

@ginoc44 Жыл бұрын

Since when is this the Royal Navy method? What's the provenance on this?

@xenon53827 Жыл бұрын

www.flaginstitute.org/wp/uk-flags/british-flag-protocol/ Scroll down to where it says "As a Pall for a Coffin If a national flag is to be used on a coffin, it should be placed so that the top-left corner of the flag is over the deceased’s left shoulder. The flag should be removed before interment or cremation and folded. If the flag is to be retained by the next of kin it can be folded using the Royal Navy’s method shown here, based on a 1:2 flag (138cm x 276cm) with no fittings (ie. ropes, toggles or clips), or using the method shown"

@ginoc44 Жыл бұрын

@@xenon53827 OK, that's one credible reference. What makes us think that this came from the Royal Navy and wasn't copied from the Americans who have been doing this triangle fold for quite some time now?

@xenon53827 Жыл бұрын

@@ginoc44 No Idea, the Royal Navy may have been doing it longer for all I know. I don't think it is a competition.

@ginoc44 Жыл бұрын

@@xenon53827 still, it would be good to know the origin.

@xenon53827 Жыл бұрын

@@ginoc44 Somebody might know, or it could be lost in the mist of time.

@funwithajesh5312 5 жыл бұрын

What is size ..??

@xenon53827 5 жыл бұрын

From memory it is a 3 yard flag, 54 X 108 inches, 274cm X 137cm.

@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039 5 жыл бұрын

What is size. Is that you moose.

@angieroxy7550 5 жыл бұрын

This is also an American Military Folð too ;)

@nova4747 Жыл бұрын

🇬🇧

@knoodelhed 7 жыл бұрын

It would seem that the US 🇺🇸 procedure might have been "inherited" from the RN. Thanks. 😃

@xenon53827 7 жыл бұрын

To be honest, I have no idea where it originated.

@nickhowarth3415 5 жыл бұрын

I read somewhere that this method of flag folding was developed by sailors because it allowed flags to unfurl themselves without becoming tangled.

@Wildcat_Shenanigans 4 жыл бұрын

Basically the American way

@xenon53827 4 жыл бұрын

We share a common heritage. 🙂

@thekingofdimes724 7 жыл бұрын

USA 🇺🇸 gold is why better

@xenon53827 7 жыл бұрын

Why better? I don't know! Did you mean 'way better'? Anyway, I was watching this at Arlington… kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7qVd9Z716_Vn58.html They don't seem to do the first straight fold and so ended up with rather more at the end, causing what looked like some difficulty in tucking the last section in. I do not rank the way different countries fold their flag, they are just different methods, that's all.

@callumw1597 4 жыл бұрын

@@irishtrapper9149 Facts

@jsskeptical 2 жыл бұрын

@@irishtrapper9149 don’t you disrespects God’s country like that