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image by Ivan Sache, based on Joseph Nüsse website
Blue flag with a white disc charged with a triangle made of alternating blue
and white lines.
Ivan Sache, 15 September 2002
This logo is probably best known from Aalborg Portland's main product:
cement, as it is printed on the paper bags that the cement is sold in.
Ole Andersen, 15 September 2002
image
by Jarig Bakker, 21 October 2005
Source:
Loughran (1995)
A/S Aalborg Portland Cement Fabrik, Aalborg - white a
blue cement bag-label.
Jarig Bakker, 21 October 2005
A red flag, white cross, aver all stylized blue "A". Same type of "A" was
used by the Danish Asiatic Company after 1802.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels (Wedge 1926)
Jarig Bakker, 19 December 2004
image by Ivan Sache, 29 November 2003
Adolph Andersens (Randers, Denmark) - quarter per saltire white-red with A on
each white quarter.
http://www.adolph-andersen.dk/
Dov Gutterman, 26 October 2003
The company was founded in Randers in 1851 by Adolph Andersen Sr., who took over and renamed the "Chr. Hennings" company, which had been founded in 1802. The flag is divided per saltire white-red-red-white with a blue A in the white quarters.
Ivan Sache, 29 November 2003
image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000
based on Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963
image by Ivan Sache, 2 November 2003
A.N Petersen A/S (Holte, Denmark) - diagonal red-white-blue
http://www.anpetersen.dk/
Dov Gutterman, 26 October 2003
The company was founded in 1920 by Captain A.N.
Petersen, who died in 1941.
Ivan Sache, 2 November 2003
image by Jorge Candeias, 1 June 2005
based on Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963
A.P. Møller, Copenhagen: blue pennant with white seven-pointed star near the
hoist. Also known as Maersk. The Maersk livery colour, sky blue, is well-known.
Jan Mertens, 11 December 2003
A.P. Möller (Maersk Line). The blue is a light shade and the star points are
long and narrow. The company website
www.apmoller.com in 2000 gives the background of the logo as "History of the
logo: The following narrative is found in the book about A.P. Møller "With
Constant Care..", by Ove Hornby: "When Captain P.M. Møller took command of his
first steamer the S.S. "Laura" in 1886, her black funnel was ringed with a blue
band with a white seven-pointed star on each side. While accompanying her
husband on a voyage years earlier, his wife Anna Møller had suffered a serious
illness, which left a lasting impression on the deeply religious captain, who
felt himself to be responsible. In a letter to his wife in October 1886, he
explained the background for the company's new emblem: "The little star on the
funnel is a reminder of the evening I prayed for you so dejectedly and
anxiously, asking for the sign that I might see in the grey, overcast sky, a
reminder that the Lord hears our prayers"..
According to Loughran (1979) a
flag with reversed colours was used by certain vessels under Liberian registry.
See also Dampskibselsskabet af 1912 a/s.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 April 2004
A.P. Møller acquired part interest of Safmarine,
including the houseflag and name for the ex-South African part of their
shipping.
Andre Burgers, 15 November 2004
I have observed that the containers of Maersk-Sealand, which is the container
division of the Maersk multinational (although Danish-based) transport and
logistics conglomerate, have the basic design of this emblem expanded to a
rectangular shape. This emblem can either be found on the rear doors of the
containers or sometimes along the sides. I do not know if Maersk-Sealand
operates its own vessels separately from the rest of the Maersk fleet, but if
they do their ships may possibly be distinguished by this flag in place of the
emblem shown.
Ron Lahav, 2 June 2005
image by Ivan Sache, based on Joseph Nüsse website
White flag with a big curvilinear green triangle including a small white
triangle.
Ivan Sache, 15 September 2002
image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000
based on Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963
A/S Dansk-Franke D/S. The white band should bear "D-F"
with the "D" and the dash being blue and the "F" red. The company was formed in
1902 and declared bankrupt in 1979. According to
Talbot-Booth up until 1938 it
was operated by A.N. Petersen (and he shows it under this name), being joined in
1938 by E. Hahn-Petersen. Post WW2 only the latter is shown by Lloyds as being
the operator and some flag sources also show this name with Lloyds deleting the
reference at the beginning of the 1970s. Flag sources prior to WW2 show a
different version with the red canton being normal style with sources varying as to whether the white cross fesse point was
centred or placed nearer the hoist in Scandinavian style.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 April 2004
image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000
based on Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963
Basse & Co. Prior to WW2 shown as T. Basse, afterwards as Basse & Co. and
finally A.H Basse being liquidated in 1978. The "H" probably relates to D/S
Hetland A/S under which they seem to have originally operated.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 April 2004
image by Jarig Bakker, 14 February 2006
Bech Rederierne, Horsens - white flag, blue disk, white stripe, blue "BECH".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 14 February 2006
image by Ivan Sache, based on Joseph Nüsse website
White flag with a blue cursive b letter divided by a blue horizontal line.
Ivan Sache, 15 September 2002
Must be inspired by the 'Plimsoll
line'
Ole Andersen, 15 September 2002
image by Ivan Sache, based on Joseph Nüsse website
Red flag with two parallel diagonal white dashes near the fly. Bornholm is
the easternmost Danish island.
Ivan Sache, 15 September 2002
The dashes allude to the shape of the island: a parallelogram
Ole Andersen, 15 September 2002
P. Brown, Jr., Copenhagen - square white flag bordered red; blue 5-pointed
star.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels (Wedge 1926)
Jarig Bakker, 20 January 2005
P Brown Jr. This seems to be another case of sources showing a livery in the name of the operators instead of the actual company. In this case, as shown by Lloyds 1904 and 1912, the correct company is Det Helsingorske Dampskibsselskab.
image by Jarig Bakker, 14 February 2006
Bugserbolaget Goliath, Aalborg; red flag, white fly-diagonal; on white black
"GOLIATH".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 14 February 2006