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Tankers, Ltd (belonged to the Athel Line, which in its turn was part of United
Molasses) - blue with black parallelogram bordered white, charged with white
"T'. Source: All about Ships & Shipping, 1938
Jarig Bakker, 20 October 2003W.J. Tatem, Ltd.
by Phil Nelson, 8 April 2000
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963
by
Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum. From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Tavistock Shipping Co., London. A
rectangular blue flag with a white letter 'T'. 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." Brown (1951) lists this as The Tavistock Shipping Co., Ltd. (Purvis Shipping
Co., Ltd.), London
Tavistock Shipping Co.
Jarig Bakker, 1 September 2004Teck Hwa Shipping Co., Ltd.
by Phil Nelson, 11 April 2000
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963
Yes, the image does show the period on the edge of the lozenge.
Temple Steamship Co. Ltd.
by Al Fisher, 05 Feb 1999
The Temple Steamship Co. has a strikingly similar house flag to the
Dornoch 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
image by Jarig Bakker, 9 September 2005
Thames & Medway Towing Co., London - white burgee, black "M"; the "M" is
formed so, that two "T's" can be visualised.
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 9 September 2005
Brown 620: Thompson Steam-shipping Co., Ltd., London
Funnel: Yellow with a red T; a black top.
Flag: White, a red, approximately square, diamond in the center, with a white T.
The T is about one-third as high as the flag; the square is half the flag's
height across.
The flag shown of white with a red diamond bearing a white "T"
is, as James states, the flag of Thompson Steamshipping Co. Ltd. (title from
Lloyds, some sources show "Steam Shipping"). Neither it nor the company have any
connection with Pacific Steam Navigation Co. The flag shown was however also
used by V.T. Thompson & Co. of Sunderland in the U.K. who operated at the end of
the 19th and beginning of 20th centuries with no apparent connection and the two
companies (Thompson Steamshipping dated back to 1892) had different funnels to
differentiate them. The initial editions of Stewart shows the flag being flown
superior to a red pennant with a white "name" being presumably that of the ship.
Brown 1958 incorrectly ascribes the livery to E.G. Thomson Steam Shipping Co.,
presumably the E.G. Thomson (Shipping) Ltd. who were connected with William
Thomson & Co.
Neale Rosanoski, 24 May 2004
Townsend Thoresen
by Ivan Sache, 30 December 2001
Townsend Thoresen flag from about 1965 when the Danish Thoresen company merged with Townsends until about 1984 when the title TT European Ferries was adopted.
Ted Harrison, 11 December 2001
Townsend Thoresen European Ferries from 1983 when P&O acquired the company now P&O European Ferries. By 1988 the Townsend logo had disappeared and the P&O house flag was used.
Ted Harrison, 11 December 2001
by Jarig Bakker, based on the website of the National Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National Maritime Museum, the house flag of Trader Navigation Co. Ltd, London. A red rectangular flag with a white disc in the centre bearing a black letter 'T'. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn."
The company was formed in 1936 by the grain merchants and merchant bankers
Bunge & Co. Their first tramp vessel was of the 'ARCFORM' type, designed by Sir
Joseph Isherwood for economy of hull form during the depression. She was
re-named 'English Trader'. All the company's later vessels had the same suffix.
By 1970 it was far more economical to charter rather than to own vessels and the
company sold off all its ships except 'Essex Trader'. The firm was taken over by
the Bostrom Group of Sweden in 1971 and the company name was dropped in 1975."
Jarig Bakker, 1 September 2004
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963
Stewart and Styring noted that the company was renamed to Canatlantic, Ltd. and the newer flag had no lettering, but did not have this depicted. Retained for historical accuracy, listed as out of London.
Based on Sampson (1957)
James Dignan, 8 October 2003
Brown 79: Turnbull, Scott & Co., London
Funnel: Black, a simple red heraldic shield with a white border, charged with
the letters "TS" in white.
Flag: 2:3, red with the letters "TS" in white. (Brown pictures the letters
almost half the height of the flag, and places them approximately a letters
width apart; James' images has them one-third the height, and close together.)
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 20 October 2003
Company founded 1872. Appears to have done ship management for the government at
some time during WWII.
Phil Nelson, 9 October 2003
Red, with a lion rampant holding a pennoned lance on top of a castle tower
(all white).
James Dignan, 18 October 2003
The flagchart "Vlaggen in de haven van Amsterdam" (flags in the harbour of
Amsterdam), no date, shows this flag as red with a castle-tower, on top of which
a lion flying a banner with a saltire at the hoist, all yellow.
Jarig Bakker, 6 July 2004
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Tyne-Tees Steam Ship Co. Ltd,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. A red rectangular flag with a yellow crest of a rampant
lion on a tower holding a banner. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre
bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn with a printed design. A rope
and toggle is attached. The design is based on the crest of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
being 'A tower argent, therefrom issuent a demi-lion rampant guardant or,
holding a flagstaff sable, therefrom flowing a split banner of St George'.
The company was formed in 1904 by the merger of the Tyne Steam Shipping Co. Ltd,
the Tees Union Steamship Co. Ltd, The Free Trade Warf Co. Ltd and the coasting
interests of Furness Withy & Co. Ltd. It ran passenger services between
Newcastle and London until these became unprofitable during the depression. The
company coasters were purchased by Coast Lines in 1943. The last ship in the
fleet ceased operation in 1976."
Jarig Bakker, 1 September 2004
image by Ivan Sache, 30 December 2001
G.D. Tyser & Co. has a house flag also shown as that of the Port Line,
and there is indeed a connection – James P. Corry & Co.
and Tyser, along with other firms, merged in 1914 to form the Commonwealth &
Dominion Line (later known as Port Line). The
flag has been that of Tyser all along and was chosen as the common one. See the
on-line 1912 Lloyds Flags & Funnels:
http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/initiative/Impage.cfm?PageNum=67&bibid=11061&ChapterId=8,
no. 1380, `The Tyser Line, Ltd. (Tyser & Co.), London'.
White flag with blue saltire, a red cross throughout over all (the arms of cross
and saltire have the same width). Although the site shows a rather lighter blue,
it is reasonable to suppose that the colours really were that of its distant
relative – or ancestor, even – the Union Jack.
Sources:
http://www.red-duster.co.uk/TYSER.htm
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/tyser.htm
http://iancoombe.tripod.com/id42.html.
At first called Tyser & Haviside, charterers founded in 1860, the firm soon
operated ships of its own and became G.D. Tyser & Co. in 1873. Voyages were made
to India, later to Australia and New Zealand. Competition was fierce
(transportation of emigrants, meat import, etc.) but thanks to cooperation with
other firms such as Royden (Indra Line) and the Nelson Line (resulting in the
formation of the Colonial Union Line Ltd), Tyser maintained its position. The
first steamship was bought in 1891 (which led to the Colonial Union Line being
terminated) and the last sailing ship sold in 1894. Never afraid of a freight
war, Tyser entered into another one on the North Atlantic which lasted until
1910 in which year cooperation with German firms (Hansa,
Deutsch-Australische Dampf.) led to the establishment of Tyser United Lines.
This ended, predictably, in 1914 and in the same year the merger, mentioned
above, occurred.
Jan Mertens, 1 December 2005