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House Flags of German Shipping Companies (f)

Last modified: 2006-09-23 by jarig bakker
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Fairplay Tugs

[Fairplay Tugs (Shipping Company, Germany)] image by Jorge Candeias, 20 Feb 1999

Fairplay Tugs or Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffs-Reederei GmbH - White with a centred device consisting of a large red four-pointed star charged with a smaller blue 4-pointed star, rotated 45 degrees relative to the larger one.
Jorge Candeias, 20 Feb 1999

This is interestingly similar to the houseflags of Borchard Lines Ltd. and Lucy Borchard Shipping Ltd.. Any idea of the reason for such similarity? Were these three once the same company?
António Martins, 18 Sep 2001

Flechsig Shipping and PragerShip

[Flechsig Shipping and PragerShip] image by Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Dov Gutterman spotted the link of Flechsig Shipping and PragerShip: flag: horizontal blue - white - blue, proportiones 1:2:2; in center red "FP", fimbriated pink.
Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Flensburger Fischereiverein von 1872

The house flag of the shipping company Flensburger Fischereiverein von 1872 is blue, ca. 1/7 yellow at the hoist(?) and ca. 1/3 yellow circle with 3 abstract blue fish swimming flyward.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 Aug 2001

Flensburger Schiffbaugesellschaft

[Flensburger Schiffbaugesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (Shipping Company, Germany)] image by Jorge Candeias

Flensburger Schiffbaugesellschaft mbH & Co. KG: A blue flag with a thin yellow saltire, centred on it a large yellow disc bearing the blue letters F (top) and SG (bottom); a hoist stripe, vertically striped blue-white-red.
Santiago Dotor, 10 May 2005

H. Folsch & Co

[H. Folsch & Co] image by Ivan Sache, 14 Jan 2004

Following the link found by Joe Mc Millan - The Mystic Seaport Foundation, we can reach the 1911 Lloyd's flagbook, whose full title is (after the scan of the cover): 'Lloyd's book of house flags and funnels of the principal steamship lines of the world and the house flags of various lines of sailing vessels', published at Lloyd's Royal Exchange. London. E.C.
On p. 133, we have: #2036. H. Folsch & Co., Hamburg. The flag is white with black letters H.F.
Ivan Sache, 14 Jan 2004

Reedereigruppe Freese

[Reedereigruppe Freese] image by Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Dov Gutterman spotted the link of Reedereigruppe Freese: flag: blue; in center turned, left bottom white "H", top right white "F".
Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Herhard Frommann und Söhne

[Reederei Herhard Frommann und Söhne GBR (Shipping Company, Germany)] image by Jorge Candeias, 13 Mar 1999

Reederei Herhard Frommann und Söhne GBR: Light blue with a white cross throughout fimbriated black. A white square lozenge fimbriated black in the center of the cross with the letter 'F' in black.
Jorge Candeias, 13 Mar 1999