In my previous post about The Mayflower I noted that the the flag for the United Kingdom and the flag for Denmark are shown on the ship.

Unfortunately it seems as though the developers got both of these flags wrong. Initially I thought they just gone one flag wrong, but as my historically astute readers have pointed out, they missed the mark twice.

It shouldn’t be the flag for Denmark, but rather an inverse of those colors, which would be a white flag with a red cross. That flag is known as St. George’s Cross, and it is historically known to be one of the flags flown on The Mayflower.

The other problem is the flag for the United Kingdom, known as the Union Jack. At that time in history, the Union Jack did not have the red diagonals. Those red diagonals (i.e. St Patrick’s Cross) were added to the Union Jack in 1801 after Kingdom of Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain merged.

To put that in historical perspective The Mayflower made its historic voyage in 1620, nearly 200 years before the modern day Union Jack was created. This oversight is just about as bad as showing a modern day American flag in 1776, it just doesn’t work.

The flags on the ship should look like this. Maybe the developers will fix these errors in the future, but until then I’m glad I didn’t spend 100 donuts on this ship. If you’re going to do an update focusing on history, make sure to get the history correct.