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Achille & Vincenzo Onorato, Naples - blue flag, two white
wings with in center a white oval fimbriated black charged with
intertwined green "A" and red "O".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of
the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
image by Željko Heimer, 27 March 2004
The 1930 "Larousse Commercial" lists this company as
Italian, based as it was in Fiume, but we all know that Fiume is
now Rijeka, Croatia.
"Adria" S.A. di Navigazione Marittima has a blue flag
with a red saltire (the arms equal to 1/5 of the flag's width),
over all a yellow anchor (without rope) which bears a letter A,
also yellow: its apex has been flattened to run parallel to, and
immediately below, the anchor's stock. Incidentally, the A rests
completely within the saltire, you could say it sits astride on
it. The anchor itself takes up about 1/3 of the flag's length and
almost completely fills up the flag's width. Funnel: black.
See also previous flag below, showing an earlier, pre-WWI version
(technically, a Hungarian house flag).
The blue in the 1930 flag could refer to Italy, whereas the
central emblem survived in a adapted form. I believe the firm
helped to make up a new company to be called Adriatica
di Navigazione.
Jan Mertens, 31 October 2003
In "All about Ships and Shipping", 1938 I found
about the same image, with minor differences: the legs of the
"A" are in blue; the anchor takes 2/3 flagheight, and
there's a yellow 5-pointed star in the top.
Caption: "Adria", Soc. Anon. di Nav. Marittima (I
sailed by one of their ships from Palermo to Tunis in 1965).
Jarig Bakker, 31 October 2003
I did see a very small yellow speck on the 1930 image... I
thought it was due to bad printing...
Jan Mertens, 31 October 2003
My deductions, which are only guesswork, are that it
originated as the Austro-Hungarian company shown by Griffin 1895
as Adriatic Hungarian Sea Navigation Co. or Adria-Hungarian Sea
Navigation Co., by Lloyds 1904, 1912 and Reed 1912 as Royal
Hungarian Sea Navigation Co. "Adria" Ltd., and by
Merchant Ships 1942 as the Hungarian company Adria Regia Ungarica
which after WWI became the Italian Adria company [i.e.
"Adria" Società Anonima di Navigazione Marittima]
which merged into Società Anonima di Navigazione
"Tirrenia" in 1938.
For the "Previous Flag" four sources show flags
differing slightly in each case. Griffin 1895 has the emblem in
black outline on the white oval comprising a foul anchor with
above it a crown and below a scroll. Lloyds 1904 shows basically
the same except it is in red and the crown looks more like a
mitre and touches the top of the anchor and there is a suggestion
(possibly imagination) that a red "A" surmounts the
anchor stock with the scroll shown as red with white print.
Lloyds 1912 shows a blue anchor but the crown and scroll look
more like printing blots or possibly misprinting of the anchor
cable [I am working from an actual edition which I assume is also
clearer than the web version], and I presume that fairly enough
they have been ignored when producing the previous flag shown as
what they actually are only becomes clear when comparing with the
other sources. Finally Reed
1912 gives a larger oval touching top and bottom which is
basically the same with the red "A" appearing to exist
and the scroll being red with black letters. None of the scrolls
can be read of course.
Neale Rosanoski, 24 March 2004
The item atop the emblem would be, most probably the St.
Stephen's crown (I think it is a safe guess), but I decided to
ignore it for the moment, just as I did with the scroll (that
would read, no doubt either "ADRIA" or
"FIUME"). Anyway, the details for the emblem were of
little significance for the books of the kind we use as sources
here (they were meant for recognizing purposes and not to be
fully faitful), and we would probably need to get hold of a real
flag or at least some other material containing the Adrial logo
(like the headers of writing paper or the time tables). Anyway,
it seems to me that the letter A and the cable was red, while the
anchor was blue.
Željko Heimer, 27 March 2004
Previous Flag ?
image by Željko Heimer, 27 March 2004
After looking at the Lloyd's 1912 on the Net, I found the
drawing of the previous company of the same name (it's listed
under number 188 there).
Željko Heimer, 26 December 2003
The post 1918 flag of the S.A. di Navigazione Maritima
"Adria" - Fiume is blue with red saltire and overall an
anchor and a letter A topped with a yellow five-pointed star. My
image is prepaired based on Larousse Commercial, 1930 (thanks to
Jan Mertens) and "All about Ships and Shipping", 1938
(thanks to Jarig Bakker).
This only makes the assumption of the crown above the pre-1918
emblem more probably - the five-pointed "star of
freedom" was the emblem of Fiume that replaced the Hungarian
emblems "as a mater of default", if I am not much
mistaken.
Željko Heimer, 27 March 2004
image by Jorge Candeias, 5 Febuary 1999
A white-red vertical bicolour with the lion of St. Marcus
centered.
Jorge Candeias, 5 Febuary 1999
The flag of this maritime company based in Venice , Italy (as
can see also from its flag) is based on
http://www.adriatica.it/inglese/index.html (defunct) and can be
seen here.
Dov Gutterman , 16 January 1999
Formed 1932 by the merger of several companies as Compagnia di
Navigazione Adriatica with subsequent changes leading to the
current title of Adriatica di Navigazione S.p.A.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 April 2003
image by Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Almare di Navigazione S.P.A., Genoa; blue flag, a
white device (anchor with Lorraine cross?).
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of
the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 11 July 2004
Alpha Trading SpA (Milan, Genoa; also Monaco) is an Italian
firm founded in 1985 dealing in various petroleum-based products,
active on the home market (ports, for instance) and also
internationally.
The firm's flag with
company logo at <www.alphatrading.it>
is showing a white sunburst on a red panel in the center of a
white flag.
Jan Mertens, 18 January 2004
image by Jarig Bakker, 14 January 2005
Angelo Parodi, Genoa - white flag; red intertwined
"AP".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign
Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26].
Jarig Bakker, 14 January 2005
image by Ivan Sache, 21 February 2005
image by Ivan Sache, 21 February 2005
Angelo Parodi - Appears to have become Società Anonima
Emanuele V. Parodi by the 1930s [a later ship was name
"Angelo Parodi"] with the flag first of all having a
small horizontal biband canton of yellow and blue [see here] as shown by
Talbot-Booth in 1936-1938, or by adding the canton and changing
the letter to a single "P" [see here] as shown by Brown 1934
onwards and Talbot-Booth agreeing by 1942. Dating from 1896 the
company sold its last ships in 1965.
Neale Rosanoski, 20 February 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 20 February 2006
Aretusa S.p.A., Rome; white flag, red hoist-diagonal stripe;
in canton "CCG" over two wavy bars, all black.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of
the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 20 February 2006
Aretusa was a nymph in the ancient mythology.
Ivan Sache, 21 February 2006
image by Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Atlantica S.p.A. di Navigazione, Genoa - blue flag, white
"A".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of
the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
image by Ivan Sache, 1 Febuary 2004
Following the link found by Joe Mc Millan - The Mystic Seaport
Foundation <www.mysticseaport.org>,
we can reach the 1911 Lloyd's flagbook, whose full title is
(after the scan of the cover): 'Lloyd's book of house flags and
funnels of the principal steamship lines of the world and the
house flags of various lines of sailing vessels', published at
Lloyd's Royal Exchange. London. E.C. On p. 134, we have:
#2052. Attilio Milesi, Fu Pietro, Genoa. The flag is
swallow-tailed, blue with a M (white) near the hoist and two
white stars placed vertically near the fly.
Ivan Sache, 1 Febuary 2004
image by Jarig Bakker, 1 September 2005
Ausonia Crociere S.p.A., Genova - white burgee, top red
border; in bottom green wavy stripe.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of
the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 1 September 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 19 February 2004
Becchi & Calcagno, Savona - horizontal triband RWR,
proportioned 1:2:1; on white contoured "B.C.".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign
Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 19 February 2004
image by Jarig Bakker, 1 September 2005
Bibolini Societa di Navigazione S.p.A., Genoa - blue flag,
"B" between two 5-pointed stars, all white.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of
the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 1 September 2005
See also: Carboflotta
image by Jarig Bakker, 1 September 2005
Callcestruzzi S.p.A., Ravenna - red flag, in center black
disk, charged with two crescents forming a circle, surrounding a
white "C".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of
the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 1 September 2005
image by Ivan Sache, 2 November 2003
Gruppo Carboflotta (including Carbofin and Carbonor) is based
in Genoa. The houseflag of the company is blue with a white B
letter in the middle, flanked by two white stars. I assume B is
the initial of the name of the founder or a former owner of the
company.
Source: <www.omniainformatica.it>,
located by Jan Mertens.
Ivan Sache, 2 November 2003
This is the cable address of Union Ligure Armamento S.r.l.,
formed 1952, with their shipping subsidiary (as at Lloyds 2000)
being Carbofin S.p.A. [I have nothing on Carbonor but assume they
are another subsidiary]. The flag is that of Bibolini
Società di Navigazione S.p.A. and regular sources show the stars
being erect i.e. top point straight up. There is a connection of
some sort between the companies [possibly on a chartering bases]
and also likely with other "Carbo" companies of the
past but it is not clear. The Bibolini company originated pre WW2
as Giovanni B. Bibolini who had a blue flag bearing a white
"B" only and Brown 1958 gives this livery as applying
to Unione Ligure Armamento as well as to Transoceanica Genovese
S.p.A. (latter not traced). Bibolini ceased to be shipowners
sometime between 1985 and 1992.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 January 2004
Carbonor S.p.A. now located as formed 2000 as a name
subsidiary of Carbofin S.p.A. By "name subsidiary" I
mean one for which no address is given indicating that it only
exists as a name under which ships are officially owned. Also, my
previous comment referring to "this is the cable
address" etc, would clarify better if it read as
"the website shows the cable address" etc.
Neale Rosanoski, 24 March 2004
image by Jarig Bakker, 1 September 2005
Soc. Campania Regionale Marittima S.p.A., (CAREMAR) Naples -
Spanish-style BWB; in center fanged blue "C".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of
the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 1 September 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 19 September 2005
Soc. Carmelo Nolifu Giovanni S.R.L., Savona - white flag; in
center red 5-pointed star; at tophoist red serifed "S",
in bottom hoist idem "N".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of
the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 19 September 2005
image by Jorge Candeias, 1 April 1999
A sort of a non-swallowtailed burgee, red, with dark blue
stripes along the top and bottom edges and a yellow logo shifted
to the hoist, consisting of the overlapping letters "N"
and "C".
Jorge Candeias, 1 April 1999
image by Jarig Bakker, 18 December 2004
C. Camuzzi E Cie; Milano - green burgee; white disk charged
with concentric "CCCI" in red.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign
Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 18 December 2004
image by Dov Gutterman, 4 November 2003
From <www.finsea.it>:
"China Shipping (Italy) Agency Co. is the new
"starring" Agency in the Italian Shipping world.
Founded in the early 1999 through a joint venture between the
Shanghai giant China Shipping (Group) Co. and the Genoese fast
foregoing Finsea Holding, clustering Ship Agencies, Port Terminal
and Logistic activities, CS(I)A became operative in the autumn
same year."
The flag is blue logo on white, as seen in a photo at that page.
Dov Gutterman, 4 November 2003
image by Jorge Candeias, 7 Febuary 1999
White with two blue horizontal stripes along the upper and
lower edges and the red logo shifted to the hoist. The logo is a
pair of "C"s limited above and below by horizontal
bars.
Jorge Candeias, 7 Febuary 1999
A real flag from from: <www.coeclerici.com>
can be seen here.
Dov Gutterman, 27 January 1999
Originated in 1909 from the partnership of Henry Coe and
Alfonso Clerici Sr. beginning shipowning in 1912. In 1985 they
operated through the newly formed subsidiary of Bulkitalia S.p.A.
which merged in 1994 with Fermar S.p.A. to form Coeclerici
Armatori S.p.A.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 April 2003
image by Jorge Candeias, 22 April 2002
Costa Containers Lines S. p. A. serves ports in 5 different
geographical areas: South America, Central America,
Canada-Cuba-Mexico, Mediterranean and West Africa. The logo
consists of a rectangular field, divided black over dark red,
diagonally from (if it indeed is a flag) lower hoist to upper
fly, and charged with large yellow initials: CCL.
Source: "Carga e Transportes".
Jorge Candeias, 22 April 2002
The "Costa" shipping company is Italian and has its
head offices in Genoa. One of its divisions is a "Costa
Crociere", known by its trips of pleasure. Other one is
"Costa Container Lines", whose agents in Portugal are
Garland Navegacao Lda.
Aingeru Astui, 22 April 2002
I found the company website at <www.costacontainer.com>.
Aingeru's information is confirmed. I was unable to find a proper
flag, but it seems the red of the logo is a regular red, not the
dark red as appars in the newspaper. I won't recolour my image,
though, until it's proven that it's a proper houseflag and not
just a logo...
Jorge Candeias, 22 April 2002
Viewing the company website I agree that the red is ordinary
but point out that the black is actually blue. Not sure whether
the flag exists but the design appears on the funnel so prospects
are likely. Don't know about the connection with Costa Crociere
S.p.A. as that company is now part of Carnival Corporation and
that group is only involved in cruise shipping.
Neale Rosanoski, 7 January 2004
There is a drawing of the flag at <www.gapgroup.com>.
Jan Mertens, 2 April 2004
image by Jarig Bakker, 5 January 2006
Costa Crociere S.p.A., Genoa - yellow flag bordered blue, blue
""C"".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of
the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 5 January 2006
image by Jarig Bakker, 26 October 2003
At home I have a stout "Larousse Commercial
Illustré" (a kind of trade encyclopedia) published in
Paris, 1930. It has four pages in colour illustrating house
flags; a note identifies it as the work of Sandy Hook.
In this book, I found "Cosulich" (Trieste - different
from Fratelli Cosulich): three
horizontal stripes, the upper and lower one themselves
horizontally divided red-white-red, the central one diagonally
divided: upper and lower triangles green, the left and right ones
white bearing a black C and T, respectively. The horizontal
division is 4:7:4. The letters are at the extreme end of their
respective triangles, where they have most space. The two RWR
bands on the Cosulich flag have horizontal divisions. (Funnel:
red-white-red, black at the top).
Jan Mertens, 26 October 2003
This is the same as Fratelli Cosulich.
I presume that the "P" shown in the fly is incorrect as
the text mentions "T", and this version indeed is
one I have missed spotting as it is shown by Brown 1926 who then
in 1929 changes the letter to an "L".
"T" is also shown by the Lloyd Reedereiflaggen
cigarette card collection of 1933 but this probably originates
from Brown 1926. On the assumption that "T" signifies
Trieste its use is logical whereas the meaning of
"L" is not clear but apart from Brown 1929 its use is
also given by Reid-Corson and Bonsor in their books on the North
Atlantic passenger trade although as the latter two do not
specify where their information originates from this may not be
proper support.
Jan's source does differ from most others though in the basic
format as they show a further white band top and bottom between
the central green-white diagonal quarters and the red bands. See here.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 January 2004
image by Jarig Bakker, 24 January 2005
Soc. Triestina di Nav. "Cosulich", Trieste - top and
bottom two red and two narrow white stripes; green center; at
hoist and fly white triangle charged with black "C" and
"T" respectively.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign
Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26].
Jarig Bakker, 24 January 2005
image by Jorge Candeias, 10 Febuary 1999
9 red and yellow horizontal
stripes with two vertical tripes at the hoist in opposite
colour. I'm not sure about the yellow, since the original image
had a black transparent colour, making the flag together with the
background. Please correct if wrong. It's a very Bremen-like flag for an italian company,
isn't it?
Jorge Candeias, 4 Febuary 1999
My impression is that it was red and white.
Al Fisher, 4 Febuary 1999
Following Al's information, I turned the yellow into white.
Now, this is a Bremen flag I find it
weird.
Jorge Candeias, 10 Febuary 1999
The flag can be seen at the company site: <www.cosulich.it>
Dov Gutterman, 20 January 1999
The corrected colors - red and white, are the right
ones. Iti s not Bremen colors but Austrian. Cosulich
started its life as Austro-American under the Habsburgs and only
became Italian by the stroke of a pen in 1919 when Trieste went
to Italy after WWI and Austria lost her seacoast.
Charles Dragonette, 10 July 2000
Originated 1857 and in 1903 formed Societ? Anonima Unione
Austriaca di Navigizione ,also known as the Austro-Americana
Line, being Austrian at this point. The flag is uncertain being
shown by Lloyds 1904 and 1912 with the hoist similar to the flag
above except the numbers of bands in the hoist "check"
is shown as 12 whilst Reed 1912 only shows 10 and Bonsor in the
North Atlantic Seaway makes no mention at all of this design, with the main field
consisting of 8 narrower horizontal bands in 2 groups of 4 of
red-white in chief and white-red in base with the groups
separated by a wider band taking about 1/3 the flag and
consisting of diagonal quarters of red-white with the white
quarters each bearing a black "A". Again Bonsor varies
by having the two groups each of 3 red and 3 white (and does not
clarify whether the lower group has red on the base or white) and
gives the letters as being red. After WW1 on becoming part of
Italy the company became "Cosulich" Societ? Triestina
di Navigazione in 1919 with a change in the flag with the hoist
"checks" done away with and the central band becoming a
diagonal quarter of green-white with the black letters
becoming "C" and "L". In 1/1932 it was
merged into Italia Flotte Riunite. In 1946 the current company of
Fratelli Cosulich S.p.A. was formed reviving the name and using a
variation of the flag format.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 April 2003
image by Paul, 25 December 2002
Name: "Corrado," Societa di Navigazione.
Circa: early 1950s.
Source: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours by Colin Stewart
c.1956.
Note: Due to 4-color printing, exact shades are
difficult to determine.
Paul, 25 December 2002
"Corrado" Società di Navigazione. Formed 1927 and
operated until c.mid 1970s.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 April 2003
image by Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Corsica Ferries (Italia), S.r.l., Livorno - horizontal triband
of blue and yellow; in center yellow disk, blue moor's head.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of
the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
