Bermuda Flag

A British overseas territory, the Bermuda Islands, previously called Somers Isles, is a group of islands located in the North Atlantic Ocean. The population of Bermuda is approximately sixty-five thousand people and the capital of Bermuda is Hamilton, Bermudas largest city. One of Bermudas main industries is tourism, developed in Victorian times, because of their wonderful subtropical, humid, mild weather and for people wanting to escape bitter cold North American winters. In 1609, Bermuda’s first inhabitants were English colonists heading to Virginia that shipwrecked on the way.

Bermuda adopted both their current Bermuda flag and their coat of arms on October 4, 1910. It is a British red national flag with the Bermuda coat of arms in the lower right corner and the Union flag or union jack in the upper left corner on the flag of Bermuda. According to Bermuda flag meaning and Bermuda flag pictures and information available from 1910, unofficial adaptations of the Union flag containing the Arms appeared. It is unusual for a flag of the British colony to have a red background because traditional governments used the blue ensign but this had a red background. The only countries using the red ensign were Canada on their pre-1965 Canadian flag and from 1870 to 1905 on the natal Union of South Africa flags. In October of 1967, they officially approved the current national Bermuda’s flag. In 1915, they established the Bermuda red background with the arms of the colony as a sea flag but have no idea who gave it official recognition but never discontinued the practice because it was widely used on both privately owned buildings and vessels.

Bermudas coat of arms portrays a red lion, England’s symbol, holding a shield. On the shield is a picture of a wrecked ship, which is the Sea Venture, a Virginia Company flagship. In 1609, Admiral Sir George Somers deliberately sailed his ship onto the reefs of Bermuda to prevent the ship from sinking during a severe storm. The people aboard all survived and were the first settlers on the island of Bermuda. The Bermuda coat of arms appears both on the governor’s flag and on the colonial flag.

The basic etiquette for the Bermuda flag is essentially the same rules and protocols followed by all nations. The order of precedence goes by rank for the Bermuda flag, which is the national flag of Bermuda, Bermuda’s state flag, the military flag by creation date, and then other Bermuda flags.