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From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of the Queen Steam Fishing Co Ltd., Grimsby.
A white flag with a blue saltire and a red letter 'Q' in the centre. The flag is
made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a linen hoist and is machine
sewn.
Jarig Bakker, 24 August 2004
Brown (1951) shows exactly the same flag as the Queen Steam Fishing Co. flag
(but proportioned 2:3) for the Queenship Navigation Ltd., London.
Jarig Bakker, 24 August 2004
image by Jarig Bakker, 11 November 2005
RACAL Energy Resources Ltd., London - yellow flag, red rounded rectangle, white
"RACAL".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 11 November 2005
The company started off in the late1950s in electronics, manufacturing
communications equipment based on a method for generating High Frequencies for
long range communication invented by a South African electronics engineer. Their
customers were mainly the navies of the West. The advent of satellite
communications probably forced them to diversify.
Andries Burgers, 12 November 2005
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of R. & J. H. Rea, Liverpool. A red flag
with a white-bordered black diamond in the centre bearing a white 'R'. The flag
is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is
machine sewn. The design is printed.
Jarig Bakker, 24 August 2004
image by Ivan Sache, 31 May 2006
Lloyds (1912) shows the house flag of G.T.
Redhead & Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, as blue with a white diamond charged with a
red R. Also displayed at
http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/ImPage.cfm?PageNum=30&BibId=11061&ChapterId=8
.
Ivan Sache, 31 May 2006
Quartered per saltire in white, green, red and blue.
Jorge Candeias, 23 Feb 1999
The Southampton Isle of Wight and South of England
Royal Mail Steam Packet Public Limited Company.
Universally known as Red Funnel for short.
Roy Stilling
The Southampton and Isle of Wight RMSP Co Ltd used a diagonally
divided flag that was - clockwise from the top - white, green, red
and blue.
James Dignan
From the website of the National Maritime Museum, the house flag of Red 'R' Steamship Co. Ltd. A white rectangular flag with a red 'R' in the centre. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn."
[The only match I found was in Brown (1951) for Stephens Sutton Ltd.,
Newcastle-on-Tyne (GB)]
Jarig Bakker, 24 August 2004
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of the Regent Petroleum Tankship Co. Ltd.,
London. A white flag, in the centre with a disc divided into red over blue and a
blue-edged white border. The name 'REGENT' is in blue letters on a white
background across the centre. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre
bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn. The design is printed. A
rope and two Inglefield clips is attached. The company ships were absorbed into
the Texaco fleet by 1968 and their own livery was abandoned."
Jarig Bakker, 25 August 2004
Brown's Flags and Funnels (1951) lists for Regents Line (Grand Union (Shipping)
Ltd.), London, a yellow flag with over all a blue Y; in top a white disk with
three blue horizontal stripes; at the hoist a black capital R; at the fly a
black capital L.
Jarig Bakker, 25 August 2004
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels [Wedge 1926]
Rhondda Merthyr Steamship Company, Cardiff - white flag, red cross, in the
center red disk; "RMSC" in blue in all quarters.
Jarig Bakker, 15 January 2005
image located by Jan Mertens, 26 November 2005
The tenth photo on this page, showing details of plates and other things recovered from shipwrecks (and showing a flag): http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~indigo/flags.htm. The house flag’s colours are not shown. The firm’s initials are put in the corners (R, M, &, C with raised 'o' arranged in the usual fashion) and in the centre are the Prince of Wales’s feathers and coronet.
I haven’t been able to find out much about this firm, other than that they
were managing the Dominion Line of Liverpool (in other places called
‘Mississippi & Dominion Line’), the British & North Atlantic Steam Navigation
Co. Ltd. and the Welsh Castle Line. Traces found date from the 1890’ies. On
this page
(Aberystwyth Castle, first ship’s file) it is said that the firm had a
"reputation for closeness”. I like more the sound of ‘Welsh Castle Line’ which
at least has the merit of suggesting the feathers and coronet. But that too,
proved a dead end.
Jan Mertens, 26 November 2005
Found the house flag illustrated on the Liverpool Journal of Commerce chart
for 1885. It is white, the letters are black, and the Prince of Wales's feathers
(depicted on the chart as an ornate fleur-de-lis) are red.
Ian Sumner, 9 December 2005
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Rivers Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., London.
A white, swallow-tailed burgee with a blue saltire. A red disc is placed in the
centre. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton
hoist and is machine sewn."
It is similar to the flag of the Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co.,
London, with white field, blue saltire with red disk, according to Loughran (1979).
Jarig Bakker, 26 August 2004
image by Jarig Bakker, 10 November 2005
J.R. Rix & Sons, Ltd., Hull - blue flag, red diamond, intertwined white "JR".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 November 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 9 September 2005
RMC Group, p.l.c., Feltham - orange flag, black outlined diamond, black "RMC".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 9 September 2005
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963William Robertson, Shipowners, Ltd. (Gem Line
)
image
by Phil Nelson, 6 April 2000
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963
William Robertson, Shipowners, Ltd. Griffin 1895, Lloyds 1904 and the Liverpool
Journal of Commerce all show the white band being very broad with equal bands
then shown by all sources from 1912 onwards, suggesting that there was a change
in the basic design. Robertsons had their fleet under the name Gem Line Ltd.
from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, the ship names being after minerals or
semi-precious stones, then around the mid 1970s seem to have been absorbed by
Stephenson Clarke Shipping Ltd.
Neale Rosanoski, 16 February 2004
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 Gem Line. A white, rectangular flag with
the top and bottom edges in dark blue. In the centre is a red 'R'. 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, 13 August 2004
Based on Sampson (1957).
James Dignan, 19 October 2003
Sir R. Ropner Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool: Larousse Commercial Illustré (1930)
shows quarterly red and white, characters counterchanged in each canton i.e.
upper hoist, white `R.', upper fly, red `R.', lower hoist, red `&', lower fly,
`Co' (`o' raised, no dot). No serifs. Robert Ropner's remarkable career is
described on this
site (click on the flag). The firm is still active in shipping but no longer
independent: see its home page, then click
`Company History'.
Jan Mertens, 4 June 2004
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 Sir R. Ropner & Co. (Management) Ltd.,
Darlington. A rectangular flag quartered into red and white with a black and
gold shield of arms in the centre. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic
fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn. The shield is printed
onto cotton."
Jarig Bakker, 29 August 2004
Sir Robert Ropner & Co. The flag apparently changed post WW2, being shown
from Stewart 1951 onwards, the letters being deleted and a shield added overall.
I am not sure of the charges on the shield but at some point I have noted that
they included stag heads.
Neale Rosanoski, 24 May 2004
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of the Ross Group, Grimsby. A rectangular
green flag with a five-pointed white star. The flag is made of a wool and
synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn."
Jarig Bakker, 26 August 2004
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 C. Rowbotham & Sons, London. A blue
rectangular flag with a white diamond in the centre bearing the letter 'R' in
red. 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, 8 August 2004
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Rowland & Marwoods Steam Ship Co., Whitby.
A square
white flag with a blue border bearing a red cross in the centre. The
flag is made of wool bunting with a linen hoist and is machine sewn. A
rope and toggle is attached. The design dates from before 1934 when the
company were asked to alter their colours by the War Office and changed
them to a blue cross with a red border.
Rowland and Marwood was created in 1890 by six steamship owners, each
ship owned by shareholders, to form a larger and mutually beneficial
concern. Rowland died in 1899, and Marwood in 1914, and from 1914 W. A.
Headlam and his family became the driving force of the company. The
tramp fleet carried mainly coal out, and then grain, timber, and many
other cargoes back to the UK or European ports. They traded worldwide to
ports in Australia, South America, Cuba, Canada and elsewhere on the
globe. The company lost six ships in the First World War, but acquired
13 new ones in the period 1922 to 1940.
The depression in the 1930s caused great difficulties, but with
government subsidies in both 1935 and 1936 the company managed to keep
going. After the First World War the ships were always named after local
Yorkshire villages. During the first two years of the Second World War
the Battle of the Atlantic took almost all of the company's fleet. The
company continued trading in the post-war period, but, despite new
vessels of larger size being bought in 1956 and 1962, the 'Runswick' and
the 'Egton', the world economic climate proved unfavourable to
small-scale cargo enterprises and in 1985 the company went into
voluntary liquidation."
Jarig Bakker, 26 August 2004
According to Loughran (1979) the flag used after 1934 had proportions 2:3.
Jarig Bakker, 26 August 2004
See also: Bennett S.S. Co.
image by Ivan Sache, 8 March 2004
Based on Sampson (1957).
James Dignan, 15 October 2003
Houseflag: White, with red St. Andrew's
Cross and Gold Crown in center.
Jarig Bakker. 15 October 2003
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 Royal Mail Lines Ltd, London. A white
swallow-tailed burgee with a red cross. There is a gold crown 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."
Jarig Bakker, 27 August 2003
Founded as the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in 1839 originally between the
UK and the Caribbean and Central America and extending north to Halifax and New
York. Purchased the White Star Line in 1927. In 1932, became the Royal Mail Line
following significant losses by the company and conviction of the company
chairman Lord Kylsant for larceny (specifically having falsified the company
financial books). In 1965 RML was purchased by Furness, Withy & Co and in the
1970s sold successively to C Y Tung (HK) and Hamburg-Süd (DE). Currently
operates a refrigerated cargo service between South America and Europe.
Phil Nelson, 16 October 2003
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 the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., London.
A white flag with a red saltire in the centre of which is a gold cross. The flag
is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a linen hoist and is
machine sewn. The crown is printed."
Jarig Bakker, 27 August 2004Thomas Royden & Sons
image
by Ivan Sache
The flag is forked, horizontally divided blue-red with a white diamond in the
middle.
Ivan Sache, 28 February 2004
Based on Sampson (1957).
James Dignan, 11 October 2003
Based in Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK
Phil Nelson, 11 October 2003
image by Jarig Bakker, 29 August 2005
Runwave Ltd., Bristol - black flag bordered red, white "R".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 29 August 2005