This exhibit features traditional flags, as well as pennants and banners. Drawing from the collections of both the Historical Society and that of late Sausalito resident Frank Fuetsch, items date from the late 1800s to the 1980s. The collection includes flags from the Marinship World War-II era, Maritime Days, the Golden Gate Bridge Opening Fiesta, Naval flags, shipping company house flags and more.

Frank Fuetsch was born in 1914 in San Francisco, the son of Austrian and German parents. In 1942 he began working as a ship inspector at the Marinship, where he began collecting flags.

Some of his collection was donated by his daughter to Call of the Sea and the Sausalito Historical Society. Special thanks to Alan Olson and Call of the Sea for assisting with this project.

Many of the flags are ‘National Flags’, some are ‘Military Flags’, some are ‘Organization Flags’, and some are ‘House Flags’. ‘House Flags’ are flags from shipping and trade companies that perform international maritime commerce.