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Houseflags of Norwegian maritime companies (S)

S.F. Bruun
S.M. Kuhnle & Son
S.O. Stray
Seatrans Group
Det Selmerske Rederi
Sigval Bergesen
Sogn og Fjordane
Det Söndenfjelds-Norske Dampskibsselskab
Star Shipping
Stavangerske Damp
Sunbusseeme

S.F. Bruun

by Jarig Bakker
Source: Scott, R.M., The Caltex book of Flags and Funnels, Capetown, Caltex Africa Ltd. (1959).

#68 S.F. Bruun, Tonsberg - white swallowtail, blue cross, blue disk, three white 5-pointed stars
Jarig Bakker, 2 January 2005

S.M. Kuhnle & Son. Bergen

by Jarig Bakker
Source: Scott, R.M., The Caltex book of Flags and Funnels, Capetown, Caltex Africa Ltd. (1959)

#47 - White flag narrow red stripe at top and bottom; blue 5-pointed star.
Jarig Bakker, 30 December 2004

by Jarig Bakker
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]

Bergen - white flag bordered red, blue 5-pointed star
Jarig Bakker, 8 February 2004

S.O. Stray, Christanssand (Kristiansand)

by Jarig Bakker
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]

Red flag, white diamond, blue "S".
Jarig Bakker, 18 December 2004

Seatrans Group

by Ivan Sache
Source: http://www.seatrans.no/

The company is specialized in transportation of chemical and forest products. The flag is swallow-tailed, blue with two thin white stripes near the top and bottom and a white S placed between the two white stripes and skewed towards the hoist.
Ivan Sache, 2 December 2003

Det Selmerske Rederi

by Jarig Bakker

Trondhjem - blue flag, white slashed "O". (Ø)
Jarig Bakker, 22 February 2004

Sigval Bergesen

by Jarig Bakker
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]

Stavanger - white swallowtail, black anchor
Jarig Bakker, 22 Janurary 2004

Sogn og Fjordane

by Jan Oskar Engene

The ferry company of Sogn og Fjordane has a swallow tailed field with a white rectangle with a blue saltire in the middle.
Jan Oskar Engene, 20 November 1995

The flag of Fylkesbåtane developed from a Norwegian flag signaling system introduced in the early 1800's. This required ships to fly a white flag with a letter corresponding to the town where the ship was registered. The letter for Bergen was X, which is still seen on the Fylkesbåtane flag. The white field soon had borders added, mostly in red and blue, in all sorts of variations. The red borders on the flag of Bergen are an inheritance of this signaling system.
Jan Oskar Engene, 20 March 1996

Star Shipping

by Ivan Sache
Source: http://www.starshipping.com/

The company is based in Bergen and operates 70 ships. The flag is horizontally divided blue-white-blue (1:2:1) with two blue stars in the white stripe.
Ivan Sache, 1 December 2003

Det Söndenfjelds-Norske Dampskibsselskab

Söndenfjeldske

by Jarig Bakker
Source: http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/sonden.htm

Oslo

Red, an eight-pointed blue star, fimbriated white, in the centre (brochure dating from 1930, passenger transport).

by Jarig Bakker

This company – founded in 1854 - is still active, but in another capacity i.e. offshore supply vessels and subsea contracting: http://www.dsnd.no/

As you can see, the flag is still there although the fimbriation, certainly, is much smaller.

DSND Inc., as it is now called, has collaborated with Halliburton Subsea to form a new company called Subsea 7 (subsea engineering): http://www.subsea7.com/

DSND is based on the Cayman Islands but still active, for instance, around Norway. Supplementary information here: http://www.under-water.co.uk/2001/052000about4.htm

Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskab (DSD) ASA

by Ivan Sache
Source: http://www.dsd-asa.com/

The company was founded in 1855 as the Stavanger Traders' Association. It was initially a local ferry company and it is today a subsidiary of Folke Hermansen AS. The flag is horizontally divided red-white-red-white-red (2:1:2:1:2) with a blue triangle placed along the hoist and charged with a white star.
Ivan Sache, 2 December 2003

by Jarig Bakker
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]

Stavanger - like Puerto Rico, with 6-pointed star.
Jarig Bakker, 4 February 2005

Sunbusseme

by António Martins

This company was operating its ships under Norwegian registry and had the Norwegian flag hoisted on the rear staff. Two other flags were hoisted from cables in midship, the Danish flag in starboard and the Swedish in the port side.
António Martins, 21 October 1999

Sundbusserne is no longer running Norwegian colours. They flagged over to the Swedish ship registry and they are are flying Swedish flag since September 2001.

A passenger ship traditionally fly small national flag of the port city she left and the port city she is heading for at some high point midships, usually the mast.
Morten Øen, 20 December 2001