Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Ensigns

This page serves WikiProject Ships editors as a resource for ensigns for countries around the world. These are the flags that are generally used in ship infoboxes. For some countries, the national flag also serves as the ensign, while other countries have separate national flags; civil ensigns, those used for private or merchant vessels; and state or government ensigns, those used for non-military government ships. The list should not be necessarily taken as complete or authoritative, nor is it attempting to list every ensign ever flown by any national entity. If you know of an ensign that is missing from the list, however, please help us out and add it.

The list is split into a Naval ensigns section and an Other ensigns section, and within each of the two, further split by global region.

Naval ensigns
The consensus for military ships (although there are many articles that don't follow this) is to use the  or   fields in the ship infobox. The preferred flag (although, again, you will find some that vary from this) is the appropriate naval ensign—and not the naval jack, or other flag. In cases where an ensign has changed during the service of the ship—like the addition of stars to the Ensign of the United States, or a change in country/navy name, like Royal Ceylon Navy to Sri Lanka Navy—most articles display the final ensign flown. For cases where a ship has served in multiple navies, common practice is to have a separate section of the infobox using the ensign from each country.

If the country and ensign you need are in the tables below, copy the code in the table and paste into the infobox. If the country you need is not in the table, the naval ensign may be the same as the national flag. For these countries, copy the following code and paste it into the infobox: |Ship country= COUNTRYNAME substituting the country's name for.
 * Ship flag= COUNTRYNAME

Civil and state ensigns
The consensus for non-military ships (although there are many articles that don't follow this) is not to use the  or   fields in the ship infobox. Because these ships can be owned by a company in one nation, crewed by citizens of another nation, and flagged in, perhaps, yet another, the consensus is to not show flags except in the  field.

Below are tables of countries, organized by region, that have unique civil or government ensigns. If the country and flag you need are in the tables below, copy the code in the table and paste into the infobox. If the country you need is not in the table, the civil or government ensigns are probably the same as the national flag. For these countries, copy the following code and paste it into the infobox: |Ship registry= COUNTRYNAME substituting the country's name for.

If the city of registry is known, that can be displayed as well. |Ship registry=&amp;nbsp;Haifa |Ship registry=🇨🇭&amp;nbsp;Basel |Ship registry=🇺🇸&amp;nbsp;New Orleans (If you don't want the port wikilinked, just omit the brackets.)
 * For countries in the tables below that use, copy and paste the same code, but replace the country's name with the city of registry. So for a ship registered in the Israeli port of Haifa, you would use this:
 * For all other countries in the tables below (those that use ), copy the code from the table, but change  to   and add the city name. So for a Swiss ship registered in Basel, you would use this:
 * For countries not in the tables below, make the same change: use  for   and add the city name. So for a U.S. ship registered in New Orleans, you would use this: