#red duster

[shy-steamer]

Anybody like the Trigun anime or manga? This is Vash the Stampede’s design from the manga Trigun MAXIMUM by Yasuhiro Nightow. 😁 

[intramir]

[flagsandcoatofarms]

British civil ensign

Red duster

The British civil ensign is a red flag with the Union flag in the canton, it is used on merchant and private ships as an ensign and courtesy flag.

Originally the flag of the British navy, their were three versions, all dedicated to a separate squadron, the blue squadron flying a blue ensign and a white squadron flying a white ensign (with st. George cross) 

The earliest record of merchant ships using the Red ensign is from 1674, but the record suggests this ensign was in use before.

The Union flag in the canton made the same changes over time, as the Union flag it self, from English to English+Scottish to English+Scottish+Irish in 1801.

In 1864 the British Royal Navy stopped the use of the red ensign, and changed to only using the White ensign, the blue ensign is used for other governmental ships.

From then on the red ensign was the flag for "unarmed" non-government owned merchant ships, and private vessels like yachts.

Red ensigns with a badge on them can be used by commonwealth realms. But I'm not sure which ones those are, and where the difference really is between a realm in the commonwealth, a independent state under the Monarch or a dependent under British rule. So I will not say more about that, because the change of getting it wrong are big.