Age of Sail/Napoleonic War-era Naval Flags

[scooter]

Ok, random question-  What size were the national colors during the Age of Sail, i.e. the Battle of Trafalgar and the like?  I want to replace (or add) the 15 Star & Stripe flag to my USS Constitution cum Enterprise, and commissioning pennant, but I need to know the sizes roughly.  Wikipedia mentions 19x36 feet circa 1870, but was that circa 1870.

Esoteric question, I know, but the my Google-fu is not finding anything...

[NARSES2]

Not sure they were standard at all Scoot.

Royal Navy tended to fly "battle flags" as big as the mast could reasonably carry and that tradition carried on well into the 20th Century

As for the Union Jack (Union Flag) then the important thing was and is the proportions rather then overall size. See here http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb_var.html

No idea about US Flags but assume it would have been similar ?

[scooter]

Not sure they were standard at all Scoot.

Royal Navy tended to fly "battle flags" as big as the mast could reasonably carry and that tradition carried on well into the 20th Century

As for the Union Jack (Union Flag) then the important thing was and is the proportions rather then overall size. See here http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb_var.html

No idea about US Flags but assume it would have been similar ?

Looks that way.  I figure then I could probably get away with a 1/48 or 1/35 flag scaled flag off the halyards

[pyro-manic]

Might be worth contacting a maritime museum - they might even have some original flags stashed away somewhere. I know the Dockyard museum at Portsmouth has some original sails from Trafalgar, and all sorts of old flags and pennants.

[jcf]

Well, the 15-stripe garrison flag at Fort McHenry, The Star-Spangled Banner of poem and anthem,
was 30' X 42'. 

Interesting tidbit on the FOTW page on sizes/proportions of the US flag:
"An 1818 circular from the Board of Naval Commissioners set the dimensions of the national ensign for the Navy
at 14:24, which is a little longer than 10:17."

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-size.html