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Miles Li, 6 July 2018
Established by the Coastwise Trade Act of 1902; adopted in 1903; currently
codified as Section 904, An Act to Revise and Codify the Tariff and Customs Laws
of the Philippines, Republic Act No. 1937 of June 22, 1957:
"Vessels
engaged in the Philippine coastwise trade shall fly at the mainmast the
Philippine coastwise emblem, consisting of a rectangular white flag with one
blue and one red stars ranged from staff to tip in the horizontal median line."
Philippine-registered vessels, licensed to engage in domestic trade, are
required to fly this flag, thereby exempt the vessels from customs and
quarantine requirements. A flag for similar purposes existed in the
Republic of Texas in 1839.
Miles Li,
6 July 2018
The flag is white with the same proportions as the Philippine flag. defaced
with the seal of the Philippine coast guard: a circular seal with a black
bordered ring in the shape of a life saver, in three orange ovoid compartments,
each compartment bearing a word: Philippine; coast; guard. Each compartment is
separated by two lines on a field of white. Within the inner ring a field of
white bearing an equilateral triangle in navy blue, with three white five
pointed stars, one at each corner, representing Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao; at
the center a naval anchor in black with a stylized dolphin in white weaving
around the anchor.
Manuel L. Quezon III, 12 February 2002