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House flags of Peruvian shipping companies

Empresa Naviera Santa S. A.
Compañía Peruana de Vapores S. A.
Naviera Universal S. A. Uniline

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Empresa Naviera Santa S. A.

image by Ivan Sache, 24 Mar 2001

Empresa Naviera Santa S. A. (Lima). White flag with two red triangles placed along the hoist and along the fly, but not touching each other. E (white), N (red), and S (white) are placed horizontally in the first triangle, main field, and second triangle, respectively. Image after a photo of an actual flag, from Joseph Nüsse’s website.
Ivan Sache, 24 Mar 2001

The basic design, per saltire red and white, is identical to the 1825-1822 national flag of Peru.
António Martins, 08 Dec 2005

Compañía Peruana de Vapores S.A.

Josef Nuesse’s site has a flag with three letters: http://flags.seeleute.net/36.htm identifying the firm as Compañía Peruana de Vapores S.A. (CPV) and showing a real “Peruvian” sun on a broad lozenge. No doubt the little disk was meant to portray a sun in the 1930 versions. (Funnel: yellow with a black top, a red band with a yellow diamond separated from said top by a narrow yellow band.)

So the diamond seems to have become a broad lozenge. And one letter has been dropped, reflecting no doubt a change in the firm’s name. The line was founded in 1906, was really a state company, and closed down in 1990 as the government wanted to stimulate privatization.

Jan Mertens, 27 Oct 2003

Compañía Peruana de Vapores y Dique del Callao (previous version)

image by Ivan Sache, 31 Aug 2002

The single house flag from Peru in the 1930 Larousse Commercial house flag pages [hok30]: The Cia Peruana de Vapores y Dique del Callao is shown as having a red flag with a white diamond (height about 1/3 of the flag’s own height) having a little yellow disk in the middle and white letters in the four corners: CPVD.
Jan Mertens, 27 Oct 2003

This flag is #378 at [llz33]: Red flag with a white “square lozenge“ in the middle. A “Peruvian sun” in a square lozenge within the white one. C, P, V, and D, in white, in the first “quarters”, respectively. Shipping lines: Peru - Chile - Ecuador - North America Cargo and passenger steamboats: 7; tonnage: ca 29,990 Regt. brutto.
Ivan Sache, 31 Aug 2002

Naviera Universal S. A. Uniline

image by Ivan Sache, 31 Aug 2002

Naviera Universal S. A. Uniline (Lima). Flag quartered red-white-white-red, with N, in white, in the first quarter and U, in white, too, in the fourth quarter. Image after a photo of an actual flag, from Joseph Nüsse’s website.
Ivan Sache, 31 Aug 2002