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Houseflags of Norwegian maritime companies (S)

Sigval Bergesen
Simon Mokster
Skibs A/S Karlander
Sogn og Fjordane
Solstad Rederi A/S
Det Söndenfjelds-Norske Dampskibsselskab
Star Shipping
Stavangerske Damp
Sunbusseeme

Sigval Bergesen

by Jarig Bakker
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, 1926 [wed26]

Stavanger - white swallowtail, black anchor
Jarig Bakker, 22 Janurary 2004

Simon Møkster

image by Jarig Bakker, 14 January 2006
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World [lgr95]

Stavanger - per saltire red and white flag; on white black "SM".
Jarig Bakker, 14 January 2006

Skibs A/S Karlander

image by Jarig Bakker, 23 January 2006
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World [lgr95]

Oslo - horizontal White-Red-White flag, white "K".
Jarig Bakker, 23 January 2006

Sogn og Fjordane

by Jan Oskar Engene

The ferry company of Sogn og Fjordane has a swallow tailed field with a white rectangle with a blue saltire in the middle.
Jan Oskar Engene, 20 November 1995

The flag of Fylkesbåtane developed from a Norwegian flag signaling system introduced in the early 1800's. This required ships to fly a white flag with a letter corresponding to the town where the ship was registered. The letter for Bergen was X, which is still seen on the Fylkesbåtane flag. The white field soon had borders added, mostly in red and blue, in all sorts of variations. The red borders on the flag of Bergen are an inheritance of this signaling system.
Jan Oskar Engene, 20 March 1996

Solstad Rederi A/S

image by Jarig Bakker, 14 January 2006
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World [lgr95]

Skudeneshavn - Spanish style Red-White-Red swallowtail, on white blue "S".
Jarig Bakker, 14 January 2006

Star Shipping

image by Ivan Sache
Source: http://www.starshipping.com/

The company is based in Bergen and operates 70 ships. The flag is horizontally divided blue-white-blue (1:2:1) with two blue stars in the white stripe.
Ivan Sache, 1 December 2003

Det Söndenfjelds-Norske Dampskibsselskab

Söndenfjeldske

image by Jarig Bakker
Source: http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/sonden.htm

Oslo - Red, an eight-pointed blue star, fimbriated white, in the centre (brochure dating from 1930, passenger transport).

by Jarig Bakker

image located by Jan Mertens; FOTW version by Ivan Sache
Source: Lloyds Flags & Funnels, 1912

This company – founded in 1854 - is still active, but in another capacity i.e. offshore supply vessels and sub-sea contracting: http://www.dsnd.com/

As you can see, the flag is still there although the fimbriation, certainly, is much smaller.

DSND Inc., as it is now called, has collaborated with Halliburton Subsea to form a new company called Subsea 7 (subsea engineering): http://www.subsea7.com/

DSND is based on the Cayman Islands but still active, for instance, around Norway. Supplementary information here: http://www.under-water.co.uk/2001/052000about4.htm

From the website:

The company DSND has with effect from Monday 12 July 2004 changed its name to SIEM OFFSHORE. The company’s web site can be accessed by the following link: www.siemoffshore.com.

Although the logo is rather pleasing, recalling a Viking sail, it does not come near an old and hallowed flag.
Jan Mertens, 11 June 2005

Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskab (DSD) ASA

by Ivan Sache
Source: http://www.dsd-asa.com/

The company was founded in 1855 as the Stavanger Traders' Association. It was initially a local ferry company and it is today a subsidiary of Folke Hermansen AS. The flag is horizontally divided red-white-red-white-red (2:1:2:1:2) with a blue triangle placed along the hoist and charged with a white star.
Ivan Sache, 2 December 2003

by Jarig Bakker
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, 1926 [wed26]

Stavanger - like Puerto Rico, with 6-pointed star.
Jarig Bakker, 4 February 2005

Sunbusseme

by António Martins

This company was operating its ships under Norwegian registry and had the Norwegian flag hoisted on the rear staff. Two other flags were hoisted from cables in midship, the Danish flag in starboard and the Swedish in the port side.
António Martins, 21 October 1999

Sundbusserne is no longer running Norwegian colours. They flagged over to the Swedish ship registry and they are are flying Swedish flag since September 2001.

A passenger ship traditionally fly small national flag of the port city she left and the port city she is heading for at some high point midships, usually the mast.
Morten Øen, 20 December 2001