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House Flags of Indian Shipping Companies

Bombay & Persia S.N. Co., Ltd.
Bombay Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.
Century Shipping Co., Ltd.
Chowgule Steamships, Ltd.
Damodar Bulk Carriers Ltd.
Essar Shipping Company, Ltd.
Great Eastern Shipping Co.Ltd.
Havers Lines PVT., Ltd.
Himalaya Shipping Co., Ltd.
India General Steam Navigation Co.
India Steamship Co. Ltd.
Indian Co-operative Navigation & Trading Company
Indian Shipping Co., Ltd.
Jayshree Teas & Industries Ltd.
Larsen & Toubro Ltd.
Mogul Line Ltd.
Ocean Sparkle Ltd.
Scindia Steamship Navigation Co. Ltd.
Shipping Corporation of India Ltd.
South India Shipping Corp. Ltd.
Surrendra Overseas Ltd.
Texmaco Ltd.
Thakur Shipping Co., Ltd.
Tolani Shipping Co., Ltd.

Bombay & Persia S.N. Co., Ltd.

image by Jarig Bakker

Bombay & Persia S.N. Co., Ld., Bombay - white with Spanish style green stripes. Possible connection with the Mogul Line.
Jarig Bakker, 18 February 2005

Bombay Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.

image by Jarig Bakker, based on National Maritime Museum website

Based on the National Maritime Museum website, the house flag of the Bombay Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Bombay, is a white burgee with a red five-pointed star in the centre. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn.
Jarig Bakker, 5 August 2004

Century Shipping Co., Ltd.

image by Jarig Bakker

Century Shipping Co., Ltd., Bombay - blue-white-blue triband, red logo in center.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 September 2005

Chowgule Steamships Ltd., Bombay

by Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005

Chowgule Steamships Ltd., Bombay - orange swallowtail, white "C".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005

Damodar Bulk Carriers Ltd.

image by Jarig Bakker

Damodar Bulk Carriers Ltd., Bombay - red flag, white disk, red "D".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 28 September 2005

Essar Shipping Co., Ltd., Bombay

by Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005

Essar Shipping Co., Ltd., Bombay - white flag, a blue arrow-like item.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005

Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd

image by Ivan Sache

The Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd. (Mumbai/Bombay)
Flag diagonally divided red-green, with AHB in blue placed on a white rectangle in the middle of the flag.
Ivan Sache, 31 August 2002

image by Rob Raeside

Josef's flag varies from those shown by shipping sources which may indicate changes along the way. The colours are agreed to by the 1966 Liverpool Journal of Commerce sheet but it shows the letters on a white diamond. In support of this version is the fact that it appears as a panel on the funnel as confirmed by photos.

image by Rob Raeside

On the other hand Brown 1995 changes the red to orange and reverses the direction of the dividing line to upper hoist to lower fly, again showing a [smaller] white diamond and blue lettering.

image by Rob Raeside

A subsidiary was formed in the UK at the beginning of the 1990s as The Great Eastern Shipping Co. London Ltd. with Brown 1995 showing their flag as also a diagonal biband of orange and green, this time divided from lower hoist to upper flag, with overall a back "G".

India Steamship Co. Ltd. For some reason several sources, including the latest Browns, show the flag with the point downwards, which is even more surprising when their funnel images, where the flag [sic] appears as a band, in all cases is shown with the point upwards.

Neale Rosanoski, 18 June 2004

Havers Lines PVT., Ltd., Calcutta

by Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005

Havers Lines PVT., Ltd., Calcutta - blue flag, yellow circle, containing a yellow embattled tower.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005

Himalaya Shipping Co., Ltd., Calcutta

by Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005

Himalaya Shipping Co., Ltd., Calcutta - yellow flag, blue "H"-like item.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005

India General Steam Navigation Co.

image by Jarig Bakker, based on National Maritime Museum website

Based on the National Maritime Museum website, the house flag of the India General Steam Navigation Co. A rectangular flag quartered in red and blue with a white cross. In the centre is a five-pointed red star. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn.
Jarig Bakker, 17 August 2004

India Steamship Co. Ltd.

image by Ivan Sache

India Steamship Co. Ltd. (Calcutta)
Red flag with a yellow flag in the middle.

Ivan Sache, 31 August 2002

Indian Co-operative Navigation & Trading Company

image by Jarig Bakker

Indian Co-operative Navigation & Trading Company, Bombay - horizontal triband white-green-white; in center red Maltese cross.
Jarig Bakker, 18 February 2005

Indian Shipping Co., Ltd.

image by Jarig Bakker

Indian Shipping Co., Ltd., Calcutta - red flag, yellow 5-pointed star. (The star is standing on one point; the funnel has the star on two legs, and Brown 1951 (Wedge, 1951) has that too - see India Steamship Co. Ltd.).
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 28 September 2005

Jayshree Teas & Industries Ltd., Calcutta

by Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005

Jayshree Teas & Industries Ltd, Calcutta - red flag yellow outlined "J".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005

Larsen & Toubro Ltd.

image by Jarig Bakker

Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Bombay - blue flag with the company logo in center.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 September 2005

image by António MARTINS-Tuválkin

A slightly different design was given by a flat flag photo in 12 January 2002 by "Jakdustyca":
The shade of blue is darker, the flag ratio is smaller, about 5:8, the outer ring is smaller, the star's tips protrude outside the outer ring, the central disk with "LT" is much smaller, the inner discs are black, not blue, and there is no outer black ring around the central disc.
This is from Joseph Nüsse's site of house flag photos, namely from page http://flags.seeleute.net/118.htm .
António MARTINS-Tuválkin, 8 November 2005

Mogul Line Ltd.

image by Jarig Bakker, based on National Maritime Museum website

Based on the National Maritime Museum website, the house flag of the Mogul Line Ltd, Bombay, India. A flag with three white and two green horizontal stripes. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn.
Jarig Bakker, 17 August 2004

Ocean Sparkle Co. Ltd.

image by Ivan Sache

Apparently square, with central blue field on a white one edged by a red-and-yellow border (upper and right border of flag red, other borders yellow, diagonally divided).
Ocean Sparkle Ltd was founded in 1995. Activities: towage, lighterage and port management. The firm cooperates with the famous Dutch Wijsmuller group. The company was the first in India to use steel barges and tugs for cargo lighterage instead of the traditional wooden barges. It currently owns 12 barges, two harbor-towing tugs and two ocean going tugs.
Seat: Hyderabad. WebsiteL http://www.oceansparkle.com/

Jan Mertens, Ivan Sache, 3 April 2004

Scindia Steamship Navigation Co. Ltd.

image by Ivan Sache

The Scindia Steamship Navigation Co. Ltd. (Mumbai/Bombay)
Blue flag with a red swastika placed on a white disc in the middle of the flag.
Ivan Sache, 31 August 2002

image by Jarig Bakker

Loughran (1995) shows a flag with a smaller version of the disk and swastika.
Jarig Bakker, 28 September 2005

Shipping Corporation of India Ltd.

image by Ivan Sache, 31 August 2002

Source: Indian Princely States

See also:

Sirohi was a small but populous 15-gun state: 1,994 sq.mi., with a population of 216,000 people in 1931. Haynes shows a flag horizontally stripped (with equal stripes, this time) in orange (saffron?), green, red, blue and white.
Jorge Candeias, 1 May 2002