by Jarig Bakker, 24 October 2003
Last modified: 2005-08-06 by dov gutterman
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by Jarig Bakker, 24 October 2003
At Auke Visserīs ESSO Tankvaart Mij. site <visseraa.topcities.com>,
there is another ESSO-flag, white with at the fly the company
logo and at the hoist in a vertical row red letters
"ETNA", abbreviation of Esso Tankers Nederlandse
Antillen.
Jarig Bakker, 24 October 2003
by Jarig Bakker, 21 July 2005
I am a collector of shipping company cap badges. I recently
acquired a badge with a blue house flag. On the flag is a
"V" surmounted by a slightly smaller inverted
"V". The side buttons on the cap have the words
"Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland".
I contacted the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam and got this reply:
"The badge you mentioned contains the house flag of the
Dutch N.V. Scheepvaart Maatschappij 'Volharding' at Willemstad
(Curacao), a venture of the Koninklijke Rotterdamse Lloyd (KRL),
Stoomvaart Maatschappij 'Nederland' (SMN) and Koninklijke
Paketvaart Maatschappij (KPM) etablished in 1966. These shipping
companies merged in 1970 into the Royal Nedlloyd. The two ships
owned by Scheepvaart Maatschappij 'Volharding', ms. 'Antilla
Cape' (1966) and ms. 'Hypolite Worms' (1966) went over to the
Nedlloyd-organisation.
with kind regards,
Mr Cees van Romburgh
maritime historian"
Bill Johnston, 21 July 2005