House flags of Swedish Shipping Companies (13)

image by Phil Nelson
Source: Colin Stewart and John B. Styring: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963 [ste63].

The company appears to have ceased operations in the mid 1970s. However Brown, 1978 and 1982 [lgr82], shows a flag of 3 blue and 2 white horizontal bands with the middle blue broken by white with this bearing a blue "N" with the connection, if any, not known.
Neale Rosanoski, 5 August 2003

Nordö Link

Originally known as Rederi A/B Nordö changing name by the early 1990s. It is not clear whether this is the Rederi A/B Nordic going back to at least the early 1950s which was based Kalmar and then Oskarshamn with in the early 1970s a company of this name but with a new fleet appearing based Malmö. Acccording to the Collectors Corner cap badges, Nordö of Malmö had a blue swallowtail with a yellow couped cross which is supported by Josef Nüsse who shows such a flag under the title of Nordoe-Line whilst also showing the flag shown here by FOTW for Nordö-Link so appears that the Malmö company, if not connected to the earlier company, had a flag change. My view of the Nüsse flag for Rederi A/B Nordö Link is that the colour is a very dark blue, not black.
Neale Rosanoski, 5 August 2003

Nordship Group

image by Jarig Bakker, 24 October 2005
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World [lgr95]

Saltsjöbaden - horizontal Blue-White-Blue flag; in center red italic "N". (Saltsjöbaden is a port a bit SE of Stockholm)
Jarig Bakker, 24 October 2005

The image at the company website shows a more pronounced arrowhead on the "N".

Nordship operates first of all The Baltic with cargos containing principally steel, biomass fuels and forest products.

Rederi AB Nordship is part of the group Engco Invest AB situated in Gävle. Other companies that are part of this group are the ship broker companies AB P J Haegerstrands and Stefan Trybom AB in Gävle, plus HML Shipping AB, Söderhamn Shipping AB in Söderhamn and Ivar Lundh & Co AB in Stockholm.

Phil Nelson, 25 December 2005

The name originated in 1976 when a pool of 8 small Swedish shipping companies formed to compete with the German and Dutch companies that dominated the Baltic and North Sea trades. The ships are noted as sailing under a common flag and this is no doubt the source for the reference in Brown. The pool appears to have been initiated by Stefan Trybom A/B and in 1985 Jacob Engwall, a member of the pool, gained control of Trybom and was in turn succeeded by his son Torsten who in 1988 was behind the founding of Engco Invest A/B who became full owners of Stefan Trybom A/B and another Gävle company, A/B P.J. Haegerstrand. In the 1990s the operation of the Nordship pool came under Stefan Trybom A/B and this no doubt explains why the flag is shown on the Josef Nüsse site under that name. Then in 2001 Rederi A/B Nordship was formed being controlled by Engco Invest A/B though Trybom were still involved as managers for part of the fleet until around the end of 2004. As noted the upward stroke of the "N" ends in an arrowhead and in fact, as shown by both the website and Nüsse, the letter is far broader than the Brown depiction.

Affiliate: P.J. Haegerstrand

The associate company A/B P.J. Haegerstrand, formed in 1859 and one of the oldest companies in Gävle, was also involved in its early days in ship owning. The flag appears as a logo on the company site (www.haegerstrands.se) being blue with a gold horizontal oval bearing the black [they look black to me but there is a chance that they are also dark blue like the flag field] letters "PJH" with the flag being flown by the sailing ship "Peru" which is shown in their gallery of their historic vessels.
Neale Rosanoski, 8 July 2006
image in this post contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 8 July 2006

Novator
Rederi A/B Novator

image by Jarig Bakker 26 November 2005
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World, 1995 [lgr95]

O.A. Brodin

The source might have the wrong Brodin in that the flag books show it being Erik O. Brodin. There does appear to be a connection between O.A., G. and Erik O. though, with them basically all operating in the same period which seems to have started around the beginning of the 20th Century. All three are mentioned in Lloyds 1937 telegraphic addresses with O.A. and G. at the same address and Erik 2 buildings down the road. However the ships by the beginning of World War II at the latest all seem to under Erik who operated mainly through Rederi A/B Disa and Rederi A/B Poseidon. By Lloyds 1970 he had been succeeded by Lars Brodin and the following year they were taken over by Salenrederierna.
Neale Rosanoski, 8 July 2006

Oceankompaniet

Five horizontal stripes of yellow and blue, proportioned 2.5:1:1:1:2.
Jarig Bakker, 7 August 2005

O.T. Shipping A/B

image by Jarig Bakker, 12 January 2006
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World [lgr95]

Skarhamn - yellow flag, white disk bordered blue, blue "T".
Jarig Bakker, 12 January 2006

This company appears to date from 1982 as a successor to O.T. Rederierna [it was at the same address] when that company was liquidated as part of Johansson Group bankruptcy with the shipping activities coming under A/B Shipinvest, who were set up for that specific purpose. By the end of the decade it seems to have disappeared. The same flag appears in the British section under OT Africa Line which was an associate of O.T. Rederierna [to what extent is still not clear at this stage] and it appears the flag was originally that of the latter being so ascribed by the cap badge in Collectors Corner.
Neale Rosanoski, 8 July 2006

Otto Hillerström

image by Phil Nelson
Source: Colin Stewart and John B. Styring: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963 [ste63].

Shown under this name pre-WW2, subsequently appearing as Carl Otto Hillerström and Folke Hillerström respectively as separate identities out of the same address and apparently both using this flag. In the early 1970s they combined as Hillerström-Rederierna before ceasing operations.
Neale Rosanoski, 5 August 2003

Oxelösunds Rederi AB (Percy Tham)

Flag: blue burgee bordered white, yellow 5-pointed star.
Jarig Bakker, 17 August 2005

The operator was Percy Tham Aktiebolaget and according to Lloyds 1912 [llo12] and Reed 1912 he also operated Rederiaktiebolaget Sverige under the same livery. The vessel "Mineral" was owned by the Oxelösund company from 1903 until sold 1917. Whether he continued in active shipping I do not know but Tham was still operating in 1937 according to Lloyds telegraphic addresses.
Neale Rosanoski, 8 July 2006

Pal Line (Paltrans) A/B

image by Jarig Bakker, 24 October 2005
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World [lgr95]

Vasteras - white flag, black outlined hanging bell
Jarig Bakker, 24 October 2005

The company website is at Paltrans.se

Originally a subsidiary of B&N Nodsjöfrakt Group. B&N merged with Gorthon Lines and on April 1, 2005 was retitiled to Rederi AB Transatlantic (under the name Transatlantic European Services AB)

Paltrans Shipping AB was started on April 1, 1977 as a small, local shipbroker in Västerås and Södertälje, with three partners. Of the original three there is only one left, Jan Thunberg, the managing director.

Phil Nelson, 25 December 2005

Table Flag

Josef Nüsse shows a table flag, with the name in ornate script which is double sided and probably was only used in this function.
Neale Rosanoski, 8 July 2006
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 8 July 2006

Perl Shipping

Today a Swedish house flag which somewhat mystified Cabinclass.com

We have not (as yet) found any references to the company history which would indicate why their house flag has an "L" on it!

Blue flag with large yellow ‘L’ (serifed).

According to the Kommandobryggan site the name refers to Perl Liljegren, company seat at Karlskrona, and also present at Collector’s Corner although the ‘L’ is thinner there:

I’ve found very few traces of this firm on the net, beyond it being active in the seventies.
Jan Mertens, 13 July 2005

The reference is to Per [not "Perl"] Liljegren of Landskrona who began operating in the mid 1960s being involved originally in one ship partnerships. Perl Shipping Co. Ltd. A/B appears to date from 1970 when he built the "Stolt Castle" and "Stolt Crown" which by their names were obviously chartered to Stolt-Nielsen. By the early 1960s Lloyds stops showing the operations under the Liljegren name and instead lists them under Perl Shipping Co. Ltd. A/B. Per Liljegren was declared bankrupt in 2/1978 and all ships were sold.
Neale Rosanoski, 8 July 2006