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![[Saint Line houseflag]](../images/g/gb~slrg.gif)
by Jarig Bakker
From Scott, R.M., The Caltex book of Flags and Funnels, Cape Town, Caltex Africa
Ltd. (1959).
Saint Line Ltd., London - bottom: white flag with top an bottom red stripes; red
"R.G."; top: blue flag, yellow map of Africa; "Ao(?)C". RG = Rankin Gilmour,
(formerly) based in Liverpool.
Jarig Bakker, 6 January 2005
![[Saint Line Ltd. (America) houseflag]](../images/g/gb~saint.gif)
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Saint Line Ltd (America), London. A white
rectangular flag with a red saltire. There is a white shield in the centre with
a red and yellow sun motif. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre
bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn."
Jarig Bakker, 27 August 2004
![[Scottish Shire Line Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~scsh.gif)
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Turnbull Martin and Co. Ltd, London. A
blue swallow-tailed burgee bearing a white saltire and a red diamond in the
centre. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton
hoist and is machine sewn."
Brown (1951) lists this too as Scottish Shire Line Co. Ltd., London (Turnbull,
Martin & Co., London)
![[Scottish Tanker Co. Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~sctc.gif)
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Scottish Tanker Co. Ltd., London. A pale
blue rectangular flag with a white saltire. In the centre is a white diamond
with a red rampant lion. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting.
It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn. The lion on the flag is printed."
Jarig Bakker, 27 August 2004
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
Shaw Savill and Albion Cy.Ld., London. White, a red St George's cross,
a blue canton with another red St George's cross and a white cross in the centre
of each blue field and four six-pointed white stars.
Jan Mertens, 28 May 2004
See also: New Zealand flag of the United Tribes for the influence of this flag on the development of the flag of New Zealand.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Shaw Savill and Albion Co. Ltd, London. A
rectangular white flag with a red cross. In the canton, there is a red cross on
a blue background with a five-pointed white star in each quarter. The flag is
made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine
sewn. The design is the same as the national flag of the United Tribes of New
Zealand used from 1834 to 1840 (see note).
Robert Shaw and Walter Savill set up office in London in 1858 as Shaw Savill &
Company to participate in the New Zealand trade, primarily as cargo brokers.
However within a year they were carrying their first passengers and became known
as 'The Passengers' Line of Packets'. The discovery of gold in New Zealand in
the 1850s led to a increase in passenger numbers. In 1862 the company sent
forty-five sailing ships, and in 1863 sixty nine. In 1873, the 'Mongol', an iron
screw steamer owned by the company, made the first commercial voyage by a full
powered steamer from London to Otago, in only 58 days (sailing took from 74 -
100 days).
Shaw and Savill had been in competition with Albion of Glasgow since they set up
business, and the two companies had a virtual monopoly on the New Zealand trade.
With the creation of the competitive New Zealand
Shipping Company, and the incentive of a subsidy from the colonial
government for a direct steam service connecting New Zealand to Britain, the two
companies merged to form Shaw Savill and Albion in 1883. In 1884 the White Star
line joined forces with SS&A to run a combined service. White Star ships
wore both house flags. By the time the Panama Canal was fully operational in
1918, passage time had dropped to 30 days. By 1908 all SS&A sailing ships had
been disposed of. SS&A joined the Australia trade from 1905 when they acquired
the Aberdeen Line, and in 1934 purchased White Star interests in the Australia
line.
In the 1939 to 1945 War, over half the fleet was sunk. New ships were built with
the post war compensation so that by 1967 the fleet was at its largest in the
company's history. However by the 1970s the world economic climate was changing
and the company fortune's waned. The last ship was sold in 1986. The company was
eventually taken over by Hamburg Sud, and the UK holding company name is Shaw
Savill Holdings Ltd."
Jarig Bakker, 28 August 2004
Note Not quite. The Otago Museum has a
handful of shipping flags, one of which is the design as
mentioned here. The flag used by NZ, however, had dimensions much
closer to the current (British) white ensign - I'm sure the red parts
were nowhere near as broad as on the image here. Also, the image sent
seems to have the cross offset towards the hoist - it was centred in
the NZ flag.
James Dignan, 29 August 2004
![[Shamrock Shipping Company, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~shamr.gif)
by Jarig Bakker
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels [Wedge 1926]
Shamrock Shipping Company, Limited, Larne Harbour - blue burgee, red cross, in
the center white "S". Larne is a town just north of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Jarig Bakker, 31 January 2005
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Sheaf Steam Shipping Co. Ltd.,
Newcastle-on-Tyne. A rectangular pale blue flag with a coloured wheat sheaf in
the centre. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a
cotton hoist and is machine sewn. The sheaf is printed. A rope and two
Inglefield clips is attached.
The company was founded by W. A. Souter in 1906 and named after the Sheaf River
that ran through his home city of Sheffield, although the company was based in
Newcastle. Starting out in the Baltic, Biscay and Mediterranean trades the
company operated in both deep sea tramping and the North East coal trade between
the wars. The company suffered heavy losses during the Second World War. At the
end of the 1950s it moved out of deep sea tramping and into the iron ore trade,
acquiring bulk carriers from the 1960s. Its subsidiary Bamburgh Shipping Co. Ltd
was sold to Ben Line in 1976. The remaining ship management side of the business
was taken over by Danish shipbuilders Burmeister & Wain and traded as Souter
Hamlet."
Jarig Bakker, 28 August 2004
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Shell Mex and B. P. Ltd., London. A
rectangular flag divided horizontally white over yellow with a red and a green
vertical stripe placed, slightly separated, across the centre. The flag is made
of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine
sewn."
Jarig Bakker, 28 August 2004
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Shell Tankers Ltd., London. A red
rectangular flag with a white disc in the centre bearing a gold shell. The flag
is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is
machine sewn."
Jarig Bakker, 28 August 2004
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Ship Towage (London) Ltd., London. A
swallow-tailed burgee divided into nine blue and white checks. It has a broad
red border and the central white check has a blue motif of two hooks. The flag
is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is
machine sewn."
Jarig Bakker, 28 August 2004
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners
Royal Benevolent Society. A white rectangular flag with a red St George's Cross
with a crown in the centre and the letters 'SFMS' in the quarters. The flag is
made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine
sewn. The design is printed."
Jarig Bakker, 28 August 2004
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of the Silver Line Ltd., London. A
rectangular blue and white triband with the word 'SILVER' in blue across the
centre stripe. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a
cotton hoist and is machine sewn."
Jarig Bakker, 28 August 2004
by Jarig Bakker, 29 December 2004
Silvertown Services Shipping Ltd., London - five horizontal stripes of white
and blue; red "SS".
From Scott, R.M., The Caltex book of Flags and Funnels, Capetown, Caltex Africa
Ltd. (1959).
Jarig Bakker, 29 December 2004
from
Port Cities
located by Jan Mertens, 7 February 2005, provided by London Borough Tower Hamlets
The house flag of the Silvertown Telegraph Works, a subsidiary of the India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company. The parent company was founded in 1852 by Samuel Winkworth Silver, who gave his name to the district on the north bank of the Thames. The company stopped making telegraph equipment around 1930, and eventually became part of BTR Industries (formerly the British Tyre and Rubber Company). This later merged with Siebe to become Invensys.
![[Wm. Sloan & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~wsc.gif)
by
Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of William Sloan and Co., Glasgow. A
rectangular blue flag with a white diamond bearing the red letters 'WS & Co'.
The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist
and is machine sewn. A rope and toggle is attached."
Jarig Bakker, 4 September 2004
Wm. Sloan & Co. Originated 1825 as the St. Rollox Shipping Co. with sailing
vessels carrying chemicals for the works at St. Rollox which was operated by an
uncle of William Sloan. This company used a blue flag with the white letters "St.R"
over "Co.". I have no information on the formation of William Sloan & Co. though
it could have resulted from the advent of their 1st steamship in 1852 and
resulted in the first Sloan flag which was a blue pennant with the white letters
"W.S.Co" with the "o" being enhanced and the other letters being of equal
height. This flag was apparently also associated with the St. Rollox company,
presumably as managers. By Lloyds 1912 the Sampson flag is shown although Brown
1926 shows a blue pennant with the white letters "WS" but this, like the version
shown by the Journal of Commerce in their 1966 chart of blue with the white
letters "WS&Co", are probably incorrect.
Neale Rosanoski, 24 May 2004
![[Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~s0967.gif)
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963
Sir W. Reardon Smith & Sons, Cardiff: red, a large black letter `S' (with
serifs) in the centre, taking up about one third of the flag's width and four
fifths of its height. Stewart and Styring's show
it as `Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons Ltd.', but letter without serifs; I
checked the on-line 1912 Lloyds Flags & Funnels and found this flag under No.
749 on p. 38 as `W.R.
Smith & Son, Cardiff" next to No. 750 (`P. Samuel & Son, Ltd., Cardiff'),
exactly the same but for the serifs. It must have been difficult to distinguish
between them unless you recognized the ships of course.
Jan Mertens, 4 June 2004