by Jorge Candeias
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by Jorge Candeias
Empresa Comércio e Navegação Fluvial means "Trade and River Navigation
Corporation". João Luís da Silva is, again, a name. The flag is a
red-white-red horizontal triband, with a white triangle at hoist, charged
with a red star, and containing the initials "E.C.N.F." in the white
stripe, in red. Without these initials, this would be a good flag.
Source: Chart of house flags
circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 2 June 2002
by Jorge Candeias
Companhia Brasileira de Navegação do Rio Amazonas - This name can be translated as "Brazilian Company
of Navigation of the Amazon River." The flag is white containing a couple of anchors disposed in saltire.
Source: Chart of house flags
circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 4 June 2002
This is now the Pará-state-owned Empresa de Navegação da Amazônia, S.A. (ENASA), using the same
flag. Viewable at the company website, in the upper left corner of the page.
Joseph McMillan, 4 June 2002
ENASA is owned by the state of Pará and serves Amazon river ports
between Belém and Manaus. It was founded in 1852 as the Companhia
de Navegação e Comércio do Amazonas, a private firm subsidized by
the imperial treasury. In 1872, it was sold to British investors and
became the Amazon Steam Navigation Co., Ltda., still subsidized by
the imperial government as a means of developing the Amazon
hinterland. The Brazilian federal government nationalized the
company in 1940 and combined it with the port authority of Belém and
other ports in Pará to become the Serviço de Navegação e
Administração dos Portos do Pará, or SNAAPP. SNAAPP was broken up
in 1967, with the state ports authority becoming separate from the
shipping line, which was renamed ENASA.
Source: Pará state
government website
Joseph McMillan, 26 March 2002
by Joseph McMillan
The name means "Hope" Maritime Enterprise. The flag was blue with a red saltire between the
letters E, E, M, N all in white, all within a yellow border. The "N" on the
flag probably stands for either navegação or nacional.
Source:1909 suppplement to the Germany Navy's 1905 Flaggenbuch
Joseph McMillan, 11 February 2003
by Jorge Candeias
This is a flag attributed by the source to the government of the state of Espírito Santo,
though hasn't got the slightest resemblance to the state flag.
It's a green flag with a
national-flag-like lozenge in the center, in white, bearing two interwined letters, T and C,
in black. This might be related to the state motto (Trabalha e Confia).
Source: Chart of house flags
circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 5 June 2002
As for the initials T-C, I could generate a number of guesses
(Transportes Capixabas, for example, capixaba being the adjective
for something having to do with Espírito Santo), but without evidence
they are just guesses.
Joseph McMillan, 28 October 2002
I note from Lloyd's Register 1953 that the Government of the State of Espírito Santo is shown as owners of the
Itacoya of 180 tons built 1929 so I guess there is nothing wrong with
their having their own house flag. Presumably having a company to run it
was not considered necessary although having complete livery for such a
small setup is unusual. The vessel was disposed of by 1958.
Neale Rosanoski, 22 December 2002
by
Joseph McMillan
Source: Josef Nuesse's website Reedereiflaggen: House Flags of Shipping Companies.
L. Figueiredo Navegação S.A. changed its name in 1976 to Frota Amazônica S.A.
Neale Rosanoski, 22 December 2002
by
Joseph McMillan
Source: Josef Nuesse's website Reedereiflaggen: House Flags of Shipping Companies.
Two related companies are Frota Amazônica S.A. and Frota Oceánica Brasileira.
Both fly flags divided vertically, with a large letter F mirroring
itself in different colors. That for Amazônica has a green and yellow
field with the Fs in white and blue. The Nuesse site shows the Amazônica
flag with a muddy greenish-grayish-blue hoist half. A check of the
company website confirms that it should
be green.
Joseph McMillan, 15 June 2001
Frota Amazonica S.A. became Frota Oceânica e Amazônica (FOASA) in1996 and incorporated the fleet previously shown under
Frota Oceânica Brasileira S.A. Brown's Flags and Funnels
1982 and 1995 show the fly "F" as yellow rather than
green which may indicate original colours.
Neale Rosanoski, 22 December 2002
by
Joseph McMillan
Source: Josef Nuesse's website Reedereiflaggen: House Flags of Shipping Companies.
The shipping subsidiary of the giant national oil company PETROBRAS.
Nuesse's site shows the green as a gray-green, but I believe based on
seeing Petrobras stations in Brazil that it is really the same as in the
national flag.
Joseph McMillan, 16 June 2001
by Joseph McMillan
Source: Stewart and Styring, Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours (1963).
by
Joseph McMillan
Source: Josef Nuesse's website Reedereiflaggen: House Flags of Shipping Companies.
Two related companies are Frota Amazônica S.A. and Frota Oceânica Brasileira.
Both fly flags divided vertically, with a large letter F mirroring
itself in different colors. That for Oceânica has a blue and white
field with the Fs in white and red.
Joseph McMillan, 15 June 2001
Their fleet became absorbed into Frota Oceânica e Amazônica in the 1990s. The flag in the picture above, by my calculations, is
actually shown back to front even though that is the way both Brown 1995
and
Josef Nuesse display it. The company website image of the flags
clearly shows that the white is in the hoist and if you study Josef's flag, although the hoist area does not stand out, the width from the red
"F" to the side is greater than that of the white "F" to the side indicating to me that the white includes the hoist area.
Neale Rosanoski, 22 December 2002
by Jorge Candeias
This time the curiosity is that the name is feminine (Cacilda). The flag is black and white: a
white border surrounds a thin black border which in turn surrounds a white
panel with a narrow black diagonal from lower hoist to upper fly. Two
letters are in this panel, A in upper hoist, H in lower fly. I don't know
about the A (the name initial of Mrs. Cacilda's husband? Sheer speculation
here), but H is likely to refer to Henriques.
Source: Chart of house flags
circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 30 June 2002
According to Lloyd's Register 1949-1950, operated one vessel of 360 gross tons.
Joseph McMillan, 28 October 2002
by Joseph McMillan
Empresa Nacional de Navegação Hoepcke - Santa Catarina, SC. White with a red diagonal stripe
inscribed in white letters "ENNH."
Source: U.S. Navy H.O. Pub. 100.
Joseph McMillan, 29 June 2001
The company was founded in 1895 by the German
immigrant Carl Hoepcke, homeported at Florianópolis (Santa Catarina) and
originally engaged in short-haul shipping between Santa Catarina Island and
the mainland. An offshoot or successor company is still in the auto importing and sales business.
Joseph McMillan, 28 October 2002