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House Flags of Brazilian Shipping Companies, Q-T

Last modified: 2003-09-13 by joe mcmillan
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Artur Reis (Amazonas)

House Flag of Artur Reis (Brazil)by Jorge Candeias

Artur Reis is a person's name. The flag is a green and red vertical bicolor with a white lozenge over all, charged with the initials of the company in black letters, in a fancy font. The flag looks like a merge of the flags of Portugal and Brazil, though I don't know if that's intentional.
Source: Chart of house flags circa 1950 at www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 30 June 2002


Augusto Chaves Riça (Manaus)

House Flag of Augusto Chaves Riça by Jorge Candeias

The flag is yellow, with a star with a big white border. The star seemed to me to be very dark blue, but I might be wrong in this: it might be black instead.
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 212 gross tons.
Joseph McMillan, 28 October 2002


Rio Grandense (Porto Alegre)

Navegação Rio Grandense Ltda.

House Flag of Navegação Rio Grandense (Brazil)by Joseph McMillan

Navegação Rio Grandense Ltda. - Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Per saltire, yellow in the hoist and fly quarters, green in the upper and lower, overall a red saltire, and on the center a white oval, edged in black, inscribed "NRG."
Sources: Stewart and Styring (1963); U.S. Navy H.O. Pub. 100.
Joseph McMillan, 29 June 2001


Empresa Demerval Rodrigues (Piauí)

House Flag of Empresa Demerval Rodrigues (Brazil)by Jorge Candeias

Demerval Rodrigues is a name. The flag is dark blue with a dark red rectangular panel at the center, or red with a blue border if you prefer.
Source: Chart of house flags circa 1950 at www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 2 June 2002


Irmãos Rufino (Manaus)

House Flag of Irmãos Rufinoby Jorge Candeias

Rufino Brothers, Rufino being, obviously, a surname. The flag is a red-white-red triband whith the hoistmost half of the white stripe occupied by a dark blue panel. It's also pretty obvious that the inspiration for this flag came from that of Amazonas.
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 460 gross tons.
Joseph McMillan, 28 October 2002


Empresa de Sal e Navegação (Rio de Janeiro)

House Flag of Empresa de Sal e Navegaçãoby Joseph McMillan

The name means Salt and Navigation Enterprise. The flag was white with a red band from upper hoist to lower fly bearing the initials of the firm in white.
Source: 1909 supplement to German Navy Flaggenbuch (1905)
Joseph McMillan, 11 February 2003


Empresa Salineira de Navegação Fluvial de Delbão Rodrigues e Cia (Piauí)

House Flag of Empresa Salineira de Navegação Fluvial de Delbão Rodriguesby Jorge Candeias

The first part of the name means something akin to "Saline Enterprise of Fluvial Navigation," where saline means exploitation of salt. Delbão Rodrigues is a personal name. The flag is white with two dark blue triangles in top hoist and bottom hoist, touching each other and going up to half the length, and with a red cross of the Order of Christ vertically centered and shifted to the hoist. A great flag.
Source: Chart of house flags circa 1950 at www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 2 June 2002


Santo Antônio de Ocilio Lago (Piauí)

House Flag of Santo Antônio de Ocilio Lagoby Jorge Candeias

The flag is quartered per saltire in white and red, with black letters N, E, S and A occupying the quarters.
Source: Chart of house flags circa 1950 at www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 2 June 2002

I would read the letters as ENSA, Empresa de Navegação de Santo Antônio.
Ivan Sache, 3 June 2002


SCANBRAS

House Flag of SCANBRAS (Brazil)by Joseph McMillan

Source: Josef Nuesse's website Reedereiflaggen: House Flags of Shipping Companies.

SCANBRAS, evidently a joint venture among Lloyd Brasileiro, Aliança, and Transroll. Nuesse shows two other variants of this flag, one with SCAN and BRAS in black and the other with the letters L and A in black in place of the SCAN and BRAS logos.
Joseph McMillan, 17 June 2001


Hans Semper (Amazonas)

House Flag of Hans Semper (Brazil)by Jorge Candeias

Hans Semper is a name, though not a Portuguese one. German, perhaps? Anyway, the flag has nothing to do with the name, and is just a red star on a white field. Might be coincidental, but these are the major colours of the flag of Amazonas.

Source: Chart of house flags circa 1950 at www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 30 June 2002


Transmarítima Comercial, S.A.

House Flag of Transmarítima Comercial (Brazil)by Joseph McMillan

Blue with a white five-pointed star. (Note the similarity to the Brazilian customs flag.)
Source: U.S. Navy H.O. Pub. 100.
Joseph McMillan, 29 June 2001


TRANSROLL Navegação S.A.

House Flag of TRANSROLL (Brazil)by Joseph McMillan

Source: Josef Nuesse's website Reedereiflaggen: House Flags of Shipping Companies.