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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 456, 18 May 1932, Page 7

After the execution of Charles I. the union with Scotland was for a time dissolved. It was then that the Navy received its first code of orders, which provided, among other things, that each ship should fly a white, red, or blue ensign (according whether she belonged to the van, the centre, or the rear squadron), with the flag of England, the St George’s Cross, in the top corner next the staff. Though our national flag became the Union Jack, our Navy never changed its admiral’s plain red cross.