Honour and Command Jacks
The following jacks are flown on the masthead if a minister, general officier or division commanding officer are aboard
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Jack of the Prime Minister
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Jack of the Minister of Defence
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Jack of the Minister of Overseas France
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Jack of the chief of staff of the Armies
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Jack of the chief of staff of the Navy
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Jack of an admiral
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Jack of a Vice-amiral d'escadre
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Jack of a vice-amiral
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Jack of a contre-amiral
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Jack of a capitaine de vaisseau commanding a division
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Jack of a capitaine de vaisseau commanding a unit
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harbour commanding officer (in NATO operations, the "Starboard" is used)
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senior merchant navy officer (if no French warship is present)
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Famous quotes containing the words honour and/or command:
“I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing—a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“How did you get in the Navy? How did you get on our side? Ah, you ignorant, arrogant, ambitious—keeping sixty two men in prison cause you got a palm tree for the work they did. I don’t know which I hate worse, you or that malignant growth that stands outside your door. How did you ever get command of a ship? I realize in wartime they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel. But where’d they ever scrape you up?”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)