The Red Ensign

• victor matcham

  • Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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  28 October 2021     11:35372666
  #1      
  Yes this great old flag to fly again on all UK ships ,The Red Ensign many years ago you see it flying on all British ships, and now we are to see it again hope that will be ferrys to.
• Button

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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  28 October 2021     11:52372670
  #2      
  Well, I guess that would depend on the ferries changing to being registered in the UK.
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• Jan Higgins

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  28 October 2021     13:37372671
  #3      
  I wonder do our fishermen already fly the Red Ensign?
  
  Widening the subject a little I wonder how long it will be before our so called friends cause ferry mayhem by blockading the harbours.
  
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59073715
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• Guest 2547

  • Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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  28 October 2021     14:09372673
  #4      
   Button wrote:

  Well, I guess that would depend on the ferries changing to being registered in the UK.

  
  
  I remember vividly sitting in the then Finance Director's office at Channel House while he explained to his senior management why all the ships had been sold to a foreign company and then leased back under a legally binding arrangement. Happy days.
• Guest 2547

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  28 October 2021     14:10372674
  #5      
  [QUOTE="Jan Higgins"]I wonder do our fishermen already fly the Red Ensign?
  
  Only for merchant navy or passenger ships, Jan.
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• Button

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  28 October 2021     14:44372676
  #6      
  Cyprus seems a popular flag.
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