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House Flags of German Shipping Companies (h)

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Hamburg - Amerika Linie

image by Jarig Bakker, 18 Oct 2003

Hamburg - Amerika Linie, Hamburg - after image from Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon, 14th ed., c. 1907
Jarig Bakker, 18 Oct 2003

Hamburg - Amerika Linie (detail)

image sent by Jörg Karaschewski, 20 Oct 2003

Most publications about the HAPAG flag didn't show the rope at the anchor. Here is a detailed image of the center.
Jörg Karaschewski, 20 Oct 2003

Haniel Reederei

I'm sure the Haniel house flag has already been presented to the list. Bad news however in this source from 2000, announcing the formal end of this old firm for 2004: "Haniel, a Duisburg firm existing since 1756, has been taken over by the South African company Imperial Holding Ltd. By 2004, the black - white - green house flag will no longer be seen on the Rhine.

Indeed. On this site we learn that the Haniel Reederei GmbH was founded in 1972 and taken over 2000/2003 by Imperial Logistics International. New name since 1 June 2003: Imperial Reederei-Gruppe.
Jan Mertens, 22 Nov 2003

Hansa

image by Al Fisher

Reederei Hansa AG - White flag with two red stripes at the top and bottom, centred between them a black iron cross.
Santiago Dotor, 10 May 2005

Hanse Bereederung

image by Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Dov Gutterman spotted the link of HANSE Bereederung - Blue - white disk, red H.
Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Hanseatic (Bremen)

image by Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Dov Gutterman spotted the link of Hanseatic (Bremen) - Red - white disk, outlined H.
Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Hanseatic Shipping

image by Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Dov Gutterman spotted the link of Hanseatic Shipping & Chartering GmbH - Horizontal Red - White - Blue, reversed at the hoist; in center outlined blue oval, blue "HSC".
Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Hanseatischer Afrika-Dienst

image by Jarig Bakker, 13 Nov 2003

I found a companion to the Glahr-houseflag with reversed colors in "See und Seefahrt", by G.A. Wolter, 1968 - Hanseatischer Afrika-Dienst.
Dov Gutterman, 2 Nov 2003

Hapag-Lloyd AG

[Hapag-Lloyd (Shipping Company, Germany)]

image by Jorge Candeias, 10 Feb 1999

White with blue and red vertical bands at the hoist and the logo (reminding two arrows) horizontally centered and vertically shifted to the bottom. This looks very unbalanced to me. The above image is based on the photograph Dov Gutterman found, which had a furled upper fly. Perhaps there is something in that area?
Jorge Candeias, 10 Feb 1999

Your assumption is correct, the flag does not look exactly right. Check out their logo in their website.
M. Moldenhauer, 10 Feb 2000

Hapag-Lloyd AG real flag

image by Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Dov Gutterman spotted the link of Hapag-Lloyd: Orange flag with blue bar at hoist side. Logo a name at the bottom of the orange - not really new, M. Moldenhauer already reported it in 2000.
Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Hapag-Lloyd AG other flag

image by André Coutanche, 9 Sep 2003

In my Orkney report I mentioned that one of the liners visiting Kirkwall when I was there belonged to the Hapag-Lloyd line (it was the "Europa").
On the FOTW-pages we show a possible house flag for Hapag-Lloyd but say that it doesn't look right. Hapag-Lloyd's own site, to which we refer, shows a flag which looks quite different. The flag I saw on the launches bringing tourists ashore was in these colours but not of this design. There is an unofficial, but apparently reliable, site which shows the modern Hapag-Lloyd flag and it is this flag which I saw in Orkney. On this site is written: "Hapag-Lloyd AG was created on 1 Sep 1970 as a result of the merger of the shipping lines Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (Hamburg-America Line or Hapag), based in Hamburg, and Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), based in Bremen. At that time, these companies, founded in 1847 and 1857 respectively, had been active in ocean shipping for over a hundred years. Hapag-Lloyd celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1997. In the same year TUI Group (former Preussag) acquired a controlling stake in Hapag-Lloyd. In 2005 Hapag-Lloyd became one of the world's fifth-largest container shipping company, following the acquistion of CP Ships."
André Coutanche, 9 Sep 2003

Hartmann Reederei

image by Jorge Candeias, 2 Mar 1999

White with a greyish blue lowercase 'h', in italics, shifted to the fly. The lower 'leg' of the 'h' stretches to the hoist creating a relatively narrow stripe over which are two other stripes in dark red and black.
Jorge Candeias, 2 Mar 1999

Albert Hauschild

image by Jarig Bakker, 6 Nov 2003

Dov Gutterman reported the link of Albert Hauschild (GmbH & Co.), which contains the houseflag of said firm, as well as the rather similar flag of Klingenberg Bereederungs- und Befrachtungs OHG. Hauschild's flag is: white with broken capitals: green A, and black H.
Santiago Dotor, 6 Nov 2003

Reederei Hiddensee

image by Al Fisher

Blue flag with a wide red stripe, fimbriated white, from bottom hoist to top fly, bearing a white anchor. On the top hoist a white letter 'R', on the bottom fly a white letter 'H'.
Santiago Dotor, 17 May 2005

Horn Linie

image by Jarig Bakker, 25 Oct 2003

At home I have a stout "Larousse Commercial Illustré" (a kind of trade encyclopedia) published in Paris, 1930. It has four pages in colour illustrating house flags; a note identifies it as the work of Sandy Hook. It has an illustration of Horn Linie: horizontal blue-red (blue uppermost), a large white H over all, taking up one third of the flag's height (funnel: black, bearing the flag in the form of a band) = Flensburg, based in Hamburg
Jan Mertens, 25 Oct 2003

Horn Linie (big H)

image by Jarig Bakker, 25 Oct 2003

Image as seen in Brown's Flags and Funnels, 1928.
Jarig Bakker, 25 Oct 2003