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image by Jarig Bakker, 29 December 2004
R.S. Dalgleish Ltd., Newcastle - blue flag, red "D"; inside D white space.
From Scott, R.M., The Caltex book of Flags and Funnels, Capetown, Caltex Africa
Ltd. (1959).
Jarig Bakker, 29 December 2004
image by Jarig Bakker, 29 December 2004
However Brown (1951) [Wedge (1951)] has a
slightly different "D", whose inside is blue.
Jarig Bakker, 29 December 2004
R.S. Dalgliesh Ltd. The version by Scott with the white core to the "D" is
not shown by any other source.
Neale Rosanoski, 23 March 2005
A plate at
this website also shows the D pierced blue.
Jan Mertens, 13 May 2005
The flag is swallow-tailed, blue with three darts horizontally divided white-red and placed 2 + 1.
image by Jarig Bakker, 3 November 2005
Dean & Dyball Shipping Ltd., Poole - white flag, red disk charged with a white
circle containing a white horse's head.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 3 November 2005
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963
White with a dark blue lozenge and a white
"D" in the lozenge.
Jorge Candeias, 17 Feb 1999
The current name of the company is Denholm Shipping Services Ltd. The company
was founded in 1866 as a ship agency on the Clyde, in Scotland. It is now
registered in Glasgow. Denholm's first ship was the sailing ship David Sinclair,
bought in 1873. The company experienced heavy losses in the 1940s and had to
move to on-shore activities. Denholm recently diversified its activity among
four branches: logistics (ship agency), shipping, sea foods and industrial
services. The company website is at
http://www.denholm-shipping.co.uk
Ivan Sache, 1 March 2004
image by Jarig Bakker, 28 October 2005
Dennison Shipping Ltd., Kirkwall (Orkneys) - horizontal white-blue-white; in
center white disk, blue "D".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 28 October 2005
William Denny & Son, Dumbarton - white flag, blue elephant. This is an
old-established firm of shipbuilders, having been founded in 1840. Their flag
was quite unusual in having for its emblem an elephant. This device was taken
from the civic arms of Dumbarton, bit also served to symbolizes the strength and
solidity of the company's products. Denny's became famous as builders of
short-sea passemger vessels and similar craft in British waters, and at one
time, a very large proportion of the cross channel ferries and similar craft in
British waters had been built by them. Their flag is no longer to be seen, for
the company closed down during the 1960's.
Source: Loughran (1979) "A Survey of Mercantile
Houseflags & Funnels".
Jarig Bakker, 4 April 2005
Devitt and Moore ran a fleet of about 20 sailing ships in the wool trade to Australia in the 1800s and early 1900s. In the 1920s they got rid of the ships and founded The Nautical College Pangbourne which, along with the Conway and Worcester, provided cadet training for the MN, RNR and direct entry to the RN College, Dartmouth. The design was wine red and deep blue alternate quarters with a white rectangle (woolsack?) centred in the flag.
Peter Armitage, 24 June 2000
This flag is illustrated in Carr (1961), Flags of the World, and in
Barraclough (1971), Flags of the World.
Jarig Bakker, 24 June 2000
Devitt & Moore of London carried passengers and cargo between Great Britain and
Australia from 1863 until the end of the First World War, mainly in sailing
vessels.
Port Cities: Jan Mertens, 7 February 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 15 January 2006
Diamantis Lemos Ltd., London - white flag bordered yellow; blue diamond.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 15 January 2006
image by Jarig Bakker, based on the website of the National Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, "the house flag of Dodwell & Co. A white rectangular flag
with a red cross overall and red borders. A black saltire is in the canton. The
flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is
machine sewn. A rope is attached."
Jarig Bakker, 11 August 2004
The flag is red with a black diamond.
Flag | Pennant |
image by Ivan Sache, 27 December 2005 |
The Liverpool Journal of Commerce chart for 1885 shows a Dominion S.S. Co. of
Liverpool, but managed by Flinn, Main and Montgomery. The flag is red with a
white diamond and a dark blue disc in the centre. In the 1909 chart from the
same publishers, the flag has changed to a pennant shape, but with the same
devices, and the F, M & M reference has been dropped.
Ian Sumner, 9 December 2005
The rectangular flag can be seen at
www.mysticseaport.org and a clearer image (top of page) at
www.theshipslist.com. The pennant can be seen at
www.mysticseaport.org, no. 1721 ‘Dominion Line, Liverpool’ in the on-line
1912 Lloyds Flags & Funnels and bigger, at (cigarette card)
www.gdfcartophily.co.uk.
A short history of this firm (using sources:
http://www.greatoceanliners.net/columbus_republic.html,
http://www.greatships.net/canada.html) follows:
‘Dominion Line’ is in fact the short name of the Liverpool & Mississippi
Steamship Co., founded 1870 and renamed Mississippi & Dominion Steamship Co. two
years later. These names expressed the firm’s interest in a route linking
Liverpool and New Orleans but this was abandoned in favour of a Canadian route.
Not much goods and passenger transport here but livestock, mostly. Along with
other companies – the most famous being the
White Star Line - the Dominion Line was absorbed
by the International Mercantile Marine Co. in 1902. Reduced to a component in a
large business conglomerate, Dominion had to stop passenger transport in 1914
and in 1921 all its ships were allocated to IMM’s Leyland Line.
From 1908 on a service using the combined name White Star-Dominion Line had been
active but in 1926 it was renamed the White Star Line Canadian Service. By then,
all Dominion’s ships had been scrapped.
Link to a 1920 poster of this joint service, showing the two house flags:
http://www.internationalposter.com/wdetail.cfm?ImageName=UKL09462 and a
luggage sticker ca. 1910 giving precedence to the White Star pennant:
http://www.geocities.com/White_Star_Liners/WhiteStarSticker.jpg. When was
the pennant introduced? Lloyds 1912 shows it whereas the following timetable
issued Oct. 1903 still shows the rectangular house flag (see last photo):
http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/dom03i.htm. In view of the
above, including Ian’s comments, we may suppose that the rectangular house flag
was replaced sometime between 1903 and 1909.
Jan Mertens, 23 December 2005
Donaldson Atlantic line, Ltd. had a red-white-blue vertical tricolor with a
blue D on the white stripe but above flew a white pennant with the thistle (the
related Donaldson Line, Ltd. flew the same flag, but not the pennant).
Source: Stewart (1953)
Ned Smith, 1 July 2003
According to "All about Ships & Shipping, E.P.Harnack (ed), 1938", There were three companies:
"Flags and Funnels of the British and
Commonwealth Merchant Fleets" shows this flag but with a wider white panel
and smaller "D".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 June 2006
A similar flag, but with a gold D, was seen on a
pin and one without the letter D also on a large sailing vessel in
West Bay of Victoria Harbour (B.C., Canada).
Charla "Vikingwoman", 6 October 2003
The companies as detailed were managed by the owners who originated as
Donaldson Brothers around 1855, by 1938 becoming Donaldson Bros. & Black Ltd.
Griffin 1895 shows a tapered swallowtail with a black letter but nobody else
supports this version. There does seem to be a connection with the version with
the yellow D from the pin as T.S.S. Captain Cook was managed by them for the N.Z.
Government between 1951 and 1960 but I cannot find any comment on such a flag.
Whether it has any connection with the sighting on the sailing vessel depends on
what it was and when, as Donaldsons folded in the 1970s.
Neale Rosanoski, 9 January 2004
The white pennant bearing a red and green thistle can
be seen at
www.merseysideviews.com. The same page shows a blue pennant bearing white
letters DSAL (Donaldson South American Line).
Jan Mertens, 31 July 2005
image by Al Fisher, 29 Jan 1999
The Dornoch Steamship Co. has a strikingly similar house flag to the Temple Steamship Co. Ltd..
Both house
flags are white with a red triangle. They differ only by the geometry of the
triangle. It seems to me very weird that two different companies could have had
so similar and potentially confusing house flags.
Ivan Sache, 28 February 2004
It sometimes helps to record the funnel marking as well as the house flag. A
white flag with a red triangle, point uppermost, was also the house flag of Lambert Brothers, Ltd.
Their ships had black funnels with the red triangle on a white band.
David Prothero, 29 February 2004
The Dornoch Steamship Co. The reason for the so called similarity with the flags
of the Temple Steamship Co. Ltd. and Lambert Brothers, Ltd.
is because they are all one and the same and the correct allocation is to
Lambert Brothers who operated through various companies including Dornoch
Steamship and Temple Steamship until 1968 when they merged their shipping into
Scottish Ship Management Ltd.
Neale Rosanoski, 23 March 2005
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels [Wedge 1926]
J.T. Duncan & Company, Cardiff - blue burgee, red cross, in the center white
"D".
Jarig Bakker, 31 January 2005
J.T. Duncan & Co. I have found 5 variations for the positioning of the letter so
far. The version shown is supported by Lloyds 1912 and most of the Brown
editions between Wedge 1926 and
Wedge (1958) although notes to the latter 1958
edition state that the "D" goes over the vertical arm and under the horizontal
arm of the cross after displaying it as shown here. The 1951 edition of Brown (Wedge, 1951)
has the letter wholly over the cross as do the early editions of Stewart (1953),
whereas as
Talbot-Booth (1936) has the cross wholly
over the letter. Reed 1912 shows the "D" mainly
on top with only the bottom of the "D" going under the bottom vertical arm of
the cross. Finally a drawing from a maritime collection has the "D" over the
cross but within the "D" only the vertical cross arm shows, the horizontal arms
do not, just the blue field. The company itself ceased shipping around the late
1950s early 1960s [sources vary] but continued as a shipbroker until 1978 [or so
a source says].
Neale Rosanoski, 23 March 2005
image from Port Cities located by Jan Mertens
Duncan Dunbar established a business in London, and with his son built up a
sailing-ship empire which traded all over the world from Dunbar Wharf,
Limehouse.
Jan Mertens, 7 February 2005
Duncan Dunbar. According to Loughran (1979) the
fleet commodore flew a swallow-tailed version whilst the commodore either before
or after this version may have flown a true pennant charged with a dog's head
superior to the houseflag, but further details of such a flag have not been
found.
Neale Rosanoski, 23 March 2005
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963
Based on
Wedge 1926 T. Dunlop & Sons, Glasgow - white
flag; white diamond bordered red, charged with blue "D".
Jarig Bakker, 13 December 2004
T. Dunlop & Sons. Some early sources such as Griffin 1895 show the diamond
frame being throughout the field, whilst the others vary with its size within
the field. The company originated in 1851 becoming a ship owner in the early
1870s and ceasing in 1957.
Neale Rosanoski, 23 March 2005