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British shipping companies (M)

Mogul Steamship Company, Limited
Monarch Steamship Co.
John S. Monks
W. Montgomery & Co., Ltd.
Monroe Brothers
Moore & Co.
Morel, Ltd.
Morgan & Cadogan Limited
H.E. Moss & Co.
Moss Hutchinson Line, Ltd.
Mountwood Shipping Company, Ltd.
Mullion & Co., Ltd.
Murray, McNab & Co.

See also:

Mogul Steamship Company, Limited

Gellatly, Hankey & Co.

image by Jarig Bakker

Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels [Wedge 1926]

Mogul Steamship Company, Limited (Gellatly, Hankey & Co), London - white flag, blue cross with in the center red diamond.
Jarig Bakker, 24 January 2005

In St Boniface Anglican Church in Antwerp some flags may be seen in the cloth but also in windows, one of which was donated by a shipping company from the UK. See text on West Window here, rather down the page: http://www.boniface.be/tour.html “The West window, donated by an English shipping company in Antwerp, Gellatly, Hankey in 1921, commemorates the casualties of the Great War. (…) Underneath the window are two plaques with details of the dedication of the window.” The second plaque, under the West Window picture, (click to enlarge, new ‘window’) shows the house flag of this firm, white with a blue cross throughout and a red diamond placed in the centre.

I’ve not discovered very much on this firm, other than that it was founded in 1862 and that for some time it was known as Gellatly, Hankey and Sewell; seat: London; now engaged in ‘Marine Services’ under the name Gellatly Hankey International about which I have found nothing substantial.
Jan Mertens, 22 May 2005

Monarch Steamship Co.

image by Jarig Bakker

From Scott, R.M., The Caltex book of Flags and Funnels, Cape Town, Caltex Africa Ltd. (1959).

Monarch Steamship Co., Glasgow - red swallowtail, blue cross, with blue disk in center, all outlined white; white "M".
Jarig Bakker, 2 January 2005

image by Rob Raeside

Monarch Steamship Co. A British trampship company originating from Raeburn & Vérel Ltd. who commenced steamship operations out of Glasgow in 1880 with Monarch Steamship Co. Ltd. appearing to date from 1902. The original flag, shown by early sources and some later ones only under Raeburn & Vérel Ltd., was a red swallowtail with a black cross surmounted by an undefined black circle and this was used until around the mid-1950s when the NMM version was adopted. The company seems to have gone into abeyance in the late 1960s and was finally acquired by European Ferries Ltd. in 1973 and then the name resurfaced as ship owners of ferries and it finally ended up part of P&O for the name to then slide into oblivion. I doubt if the flag ever flew again after the 1960s with thereafter it flying the flag of its then owner.
Neale Rosanoski, 18 April 2005

John S. Monks

image by James Dignan

Based on Sampson (1957)
James Dignan, 14 October 2003

W. Montgomery & Co., Ltd.

image by Ivan Sache

W. Montgomery & Co., Ltd., London. The flag is blue with a M (white) in the middle.
Based on The Mystic Seaport Foundation
Ivan Sache, 1 February 2004

Monroe Brothers

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 Monroe Brothers, Liverpool. A white flag with a blue saltire and a red diamond in the centre bearing a white letter 'M'. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn. A rope and toggle is attached."
Jarig Bakker, 21 August 2004

Moore & Co.

image by Ivan Sache

Moore & Co., established in 1925 in Wroxham, Norfolk, operates "the finest motor cruisers on the Norfolk Broads". The Broads are presented as follows in the booklet released by the Norwich City Council:
"The Norfolk Broads is one of the most popular inland waterway in Europe, with 200 km of lock-free boating. It is Britain's largest protected wetland with status equivalent to a National Park, made of navigable rivers, shallow lakes, woodland, fens and grazing marshes. It is also home to some of the rarest plants and wildlife in the United Kingdom.[...] The Broads were formed in the Middle Ages when peat was dug for fuel. Over the centuries, water level rose and the peat diggings flooded, forming the Broads. For many centuries the rivers were vital trading passages. The famous Norfolk Wherries, designed especially to negotiate the shallow waterways of the Broads, carried cargo around inland communities and to and from the coast.[...] Wroxham is the starting point for many boating holidays on the Broads for over a century. Its broad is one of the largest and most beautiful."

The house flag of Moore & Co. is a triangular blue flag with a big yellow M letter.
Company website: http://www.boatingholidays.co.uk

Ivan Sache, 11 September 2004

Morel, Ltd.

image by James Dignan

Based on Sampson (1957)
James Dignan, 9 October 2003

Brown 317: Morel, Ltd., Cardiff
Funnel: Black, on a wide white band bordered red bordered white a red disk.
Flag: 2:3; white, along the fly-wise edges offset red stripes, and in the center a red disk of approximately 1/3rd of the flag's height.

James' disk is slightly larger (3/8?) which makes for a better flag.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 20 October 2003

Morgan & Cadogan Limited

image by Jarig Bakker

Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels [Wedge 1926]

Morgan & Cadogan Limited, Cardiff - white flag with blue saltire; over all letters M & C L in blue - small "TD" in black.
Jarig Bakker, 15 January 2005

H.E. Moss & Co.

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 H. E. Moss & Co., Liverpool. A dark blue flag with a white diamond in the centre bearing the red letter 'M'. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn. A rope and toggle is attached."
Jarig Bakker, 14 August 2004

Moss Hutchinson Line, Ltd.

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 Moss Hutchison Ltd, London. A red pennant bearing the white letters 'MH' with a cross pattée in the centre. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn. A rope and toggle is attached. This design dates from the merger of James Moss & Co Ltd with J. & P. Hutchinson & Co. in 1934 and is based on Moss's pennant."
Jarig Bakker, 21 August 2004

Moss Hutchinson Line, Ltd. had a blue-white-red vertical tricolor with what appears to be the thistle in the white stripe. They had 2 fleets- the Spanish Peninsula fleet flew that flag in combination with a red pennant (possibly bordered in blue or white, but unclear) with a white Maltese cross and white letters M & H on either side of the cross; their Mediterranean fleet flew only the pennant.
Source: Stewart (1953)
Ned Smith, 1 July 2003

Mountwood Shipping Company, Ltd.

image by Phil Nelson, 11 April 2000

from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963

Mullion & Co., Ltd

image by Phil Nelson, 7 April 2000

from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963

Murray, McNab & Co.

image by Ivan Sache, 31 May 2006

Lloyds (1911) shows the house flag of Murray, McNab & Co., Glasgow, as white with a red M. The flag can also be seen at http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/ImPage.cfm?PageNum=30&BibId=11061&ChapterId=8.
Ivan Sache, 31 May 2006