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Dutch Houseflags of Shipping Companies [n]

Naess Shipping
Nautiek
Nederland
Nederlandse Tank- en Paketvaart Maatschappij
Netherlands Government
Netherlands Maritime Agencies
Van Nievelt, Goudriaan
Nile Dutch Africa Line
NISHM
NIT
Northsea Ferries
NPRC
NSM

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Naess Shipping

image by Jarig Bakker, 14 Oct 2003

Naess Shipping (Holland) B.V. (Diemen, NL); founded 1973 - Red. White diamond bordered black with "N"
Source: Company website.
Dov Gutterman, 14 Oct 2003

Nautiek

image by Jarig Bakker, 19 Oct 2003

N.V. Reederij "Nautiek", Rotterdam
Houseflag: five equally wide stripes of white and red; in the center of the central three stripes a white diamond fimbriated black, charged with black letter "B".
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 19 Oct 2003

Operated by W. Böhmers Scheepvaartbedrijf. In the mid 1970s the last vessel (they all had “Böhmer” family names) is shown in the ownership of Zeerederij H. Nefkens and operated by Böhmer Schepen B.V.
Neale Rosanoski, 7 Jan 2004

Nederland

image by Jarig Bakker, 29 January 2001

Houseflag of N.V. Stoomvaart Maatschappij "Nederland", Amsterdam.
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 1 Feb 2001

Nederlandse Tank- en Paketvaart Maatschappij

image by Jarig Bakker, 01 February 2001

Houseflag of Nederlandse Tank- en Paketvaart Maatschappij, Amsterdam.
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 1 Feb 2001

Netherlands Government

image by Jarig Bakker, 10 Jan 2005

Netherlands Government, Rotterdam - orange flag, at 1/3 flagheight three equally wide horizontal stripes of red, white and blue.
(I think something went wrong here. The funnel-colors are yellow with a
RWB ribbon; the only funnel like that I found for the Terschelling ship-owner (and later Rotterdam multi-shiponair) Doeksen; AFAIK there is no other houseflag like that...)
Source: Scott, R.M., The Caltex book of Flags and Funnels, Capetown, Caltex Africa Ltd. (1959).
Jarig Bakker, 10 Jan 2005

The flag is confirmed, though shown with the triband slightly lower so that the red and white only are in upper half, by an article, which is probably in De Blauwe Wimpel, by L.L. von Münching. The date of it appears to be 1960, the pages are 236-238 and it appears that it was used by emigrant ships to and from Indonesia post WW2.
Neale Rosanoski, 22 Jan 2005

Netherlands Maritime Agencies

image by Jorge Candeias, 14 March 1999

Houseflag of Netherlands Maritime Agencies (Rotterdam) / Marco Shipping Netherlands.
Horizontal tricolour of greyish green - dark red - blue with white letters shifted to the hoist in each stripe. From top to bottom: "nfa", "nma" and "msn".
Jorge Candeias, 14 March 1999

Source: Company's website.
Dov Gutterman, 21 February 1999

Van Nievelt, Goudriaan

image by Jarig Bakker, 22 Oct 2003

Van Nievelt, Goudriaan & Co's Stoomvaart Maatschappij., N.V., Rotterdam - blue with a five-pointed white star in the center; in
the corners white letters VNGC.
Source: houseflagchart attached to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 22 Oct 2003

Nile Dutch Africa Line

image by Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005

Jan Mertens reported this link with mainly Dutch houseflags. Nile Dutch Africa Line - white flag; in center blue "nds"; in bottom blue "NILE DUTCH AFRICA LINE".
Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005

NISHM

image by Jarig Bakker, 30 Jan 2005

In Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1951, [wed51] is N.V. Nederlandsch-Indische Steenkolen Handel-Maatschappij (Dutch-Indian Coal Trading Company), Amsterdam - quartered green and red; white diamond, black "N.I.S.H.M."
Jarig Bakker, 30 Jan 2005

NIT

image by Jarig Bakker, 28 January 2005

Nederlandsch Indische Tankstoomboot Maatschappij, The Hague - red over blue; white diamond, yellow "N.I.T.".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 28 January 2005

Northsea Ferries

image by Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005

Jan Mertens reported this link with mainly Dutch houseflags. Northsea Ferries - slanting vertical stripes blue - white - bright blue - white, with on bright blue the firm's logo.
Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005

NPRC

image by Jarig Bakker, 21 May 2006

The NPRC or Nederlandse Particuliere Rijnvaart Centrale ("Dutch Central for Private Shipping on the Rhine" – 'private' meaning having a transport vessel of your own) has its main office at Zwijndrecht near Rotterdam, Netherlands and branch offices in a number of European countries.

As the name says, it is an organization representing Dutch, and also Belgian, private shippers transporting dry bulk goods on inland waterways.
Most information is gleaned from the NPRC website:
“Since its foundation in 1935, NPRC’s primary task has been to look after the interests of its members (and as such, it) enters into long-term transport agreements with mainly larger clients. Clients often choose NPRC because of its proven ability to offer maximum certainty in transport assignments, chiefly thanks to its large and varied fleet of vessels. For its members, NPRC offers the advantage of a choice from a variety of cargoes. This saves the barge owner him/herself having to devote time to acquiring cargoes (…). Every member can take advantage of the structured system giving them a say in rotation for achieving a fair distribution of cargoes.”
"The activities of the NPRC consist of: ship affreightment - special transports - container transport - storage and transfer - mass and bulk transport.”

As shown on the introductory page (I don't count a simplified version on a map of the head office’s new location), the house flag is bright red, vermilion even, with a white descending diagonal bearing the initials ‘NPRC’ in dark blue – it seems to be really blue, not black – and three dark blue silhouettes of a approaching vessel on the upper fly. These silhouettes are shown very large on the home page.

See also this photo of the ‘Vector’ on the Binnenvaart site, where we see the flag in use.
Jan Mertens, 26 Apr 2006

NSM

by Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2005

Nationale Stoomvaart Maatschappij, Rotterdam - horizontal triband RWB, proportioned c. 2:3:2; on white "NSM" in black.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2005