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Line 22: [[File:Flag of Saint Helena (1874–1985).svg|thumb|left|The flag used from 1874 to 1985.]] [[File:Flag_of_Saint_Helena_( Saint Helena was accorded its own badge in 1874 that was eventually utilised on its flag.<ref name=FOTW>{{cite web|title=Saint Helena|url=https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/sh.html|website=Flags of the World|access-date=7 April 2022}}</ref> This consisted of a depiction of the territory's rocky coastline and an [[East Indiaman]].<ref name=Smallman>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVNf50szNoMC&pg=PA8|title=Quincentenary: A Story of St Helena, 1502–2002|publisher=Hypatia Publications|year=2003|last=Smallman|first=David L.|page=8|isbn=9781872229478}}</ref> The badge was later redesigned in 1984,<ref name="2019 update">{{cite news|title=St Helena Government Adopts Updated Coat of Arms|url=https://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/2019/news/st-helena-government-adopts-updated-coat-of-arms/|date=29 April 2019|access-date=8 April 2022|publisher=Government of Saint Helena|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408043917/https://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/2019/news/st-helena-government-adopts-updated-coat-of-arms/|archivedate=8 April 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Kindersley Ltd.|2009|p=130}} with the [[Saint Helena plover]] added to the upper portion.<ref name=Smallman/> Although this change was publicised in the island's [[government gazette]] in January of that year,<ref name="2019 update"/> authorisation was only granted by the [[Admiralty (United Kingdom)|Admiralty]] a decade later in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chapter 91 – Standards, Flags and Colours|url=https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/-/media/royal-navy-responsive/documents/reference-library/brd2/ch91.pdf|page=91B-2|date=April 2017|access-date=7 April 2022|publisher=[[Royal Navy]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418075220/https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/-/media/royal-navy-responsive/documents/reference-library/brd2/ch91.pdf|archive-date=18 April 2021}}</ref> | |||