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![[Flag of Portsmouth, Rhode Island]](../images/u/us-ripor.gif)
image located by Daniel Renteria, 22 July 2022
See also:
The flag can be seen in http://harddeadlines.com/2016/03/07/portsmouth-celebrates-founding-display-1638-compact. It is medium blue with seven wavy yellow stars.
In
https://riliberator.com/2020/08/28/friday-flagging-portsmouth/, the flag is
described in detail, but I think the stars look different.
Daniel
Renteria, 22 July 2022
The RI Liberator version is close, but the stars have to be thicker and have
some kind of circle in the middle.
Masao Okazaki, 22 July 2022
![[Estoille]](../images/u/us-ripor-estoille.jpg)
As the creator of the image and blog post on RI Liberator, I'm fully
transparent there that this an adjustment of the Portsmouth flag since I
personally didn't find the estoiles in John McDaid's image aesthetically
pleasing (in addition, arrangement is largely conjecture). This close-up of the
Portsmouth flag as displayed in the RI State House was taken in October of 2021,
and displays a different style of estoile. So there is at least disagreement
between different government sources.
Howard, 31 August 2023
According to
https://www.portsmouthri.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/10650?fileID=16768:
The flag of Portsmouth was adopted in 1976, the American Bicentennial year.
That year, the Portsmouth Town Council asked Elizabeth Anthony Wilkey, a Rhode
Island School of Art Design graduate and art teacher, to create the flag. To
create this flag, she connected it to the coat of arms of Portsmouth, England
(which in turn, inspired the coat of arms of the city 300 years ago).
Daniel Renterķa, 30 June 2024
![[coat of arms]](../images/u/us-ripor).jpg)
image located by
Daniel Renterķa, 30 June 2024
Source:
https://riliberator.com
Per the Tercentenary Commission:
"Azure seven etoiles of eight points
on in an orle of six around the seventh. On a blue shield, seven eight-pointed
gold stars, six in a circle around the seventh. This device of six stars around
a seventh was used on the seal of the Town Council of Portsmouth as early as
1676. The colors are taken from the arms of Portsmouth, England, viz.: Azure a
crescent within its jaws an etoile of eight points or."
The etoile taken
from the coat of arms of Portsmouth, England can be seen above its crescent. It
is unknown why the coat of arms uses seven etoiles; some theories include the
date of the signing of the Portsmouth Compact (7 March 1638) or being a number
signifying completion and perfection as found in the Bible.
Daniel Renterķa, 30 June 2024
The etoile taken from the coat of arms of Portsmouth,
England can be seen above its crescent. It is unknown why the coat of arms uses
seven etoiles; some theories include the date of the signing of the Portsmouth
Compact (7 March 1638) or being a number signifying completion and perfection as
found in the Bible.
The word is spelled "estoile" in English - it had entered
the language before the "s" was dropped in French, where it originates from.
Tomislav Todorovic, 1 July 2024
