House Flags of German Shipping Companies (a)

Last modified: 2006-11-04 by jarig bakker
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• Albrecht & Co.
• Förderverein Salondampfer Alexandra e.V.
• Alster A.G.
• C. Andersen
• Apollo Shipping
• Heinrich F.C. Arp
• Artus Danziger Reederei (no image)
• Atlantic Reederei R & W Joch

• Chr. F. Ahrenkiel Hamburg
• Argo
• Atlantic Tank Rhederei

• House Flags of German Shipping Companies
• House Flags of Shipping Companies
• Germany

Albrecht & Co.

The flag is vertically divided in two parts with a narrow black stripe separating them. The hoist part is a horizontal tricolour of white, blue and red a-la russian. The fly part is white with a large, red, A initial, centered. The caption reads, if I'm not very mistaken, Albrecht & Co.
Jorge Candeias, 4 Dec 2004

See the on-line 1912 Lloyds Flags & Funnels, No. 570, giving as the name 'Mineralölwerke Albrecht & Co., Hamburg' - a mite more information here: "now Deutsche Shell AG". In any case, the firm was involved in oil transport. (With a Russian angle?)
Jan Mertens, 5 Dec 2004

Förderverein Salondampfer Alexandra e.V.

Cycling towards the Danish-German border, I saw a ship on the Kiel canal belonging to the shipping company Förderverein Salondampfer Alexandra e.V., whose only purpose is to preserve and sail the Salondampfer Alexandra, Flensburg. Its house flag is per saltire yellow over blue.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 Aug 2001

Alster A.G.

This flag is blue with some kind of bird with spread wings in the center and 4 stars, looking suspiciously 6-pointed, in the corners, all white.
My image can't be considered anything but the sketch of a reconstruction, since the original image is so blurry and I couldn't find another source for this flag or for the central bird. I can't say weather it's an eagle, a seagull, or even a pigeon, for that matter...
The caption, though, is almost clear: seems to read something in the lines of Alsher A. G.
Jorge Candeias, 14 May 2004

C. Andersen

C. Andersen, Hamburg - 5 horizontal stripes of red and white; blue diamond, with in the corners 4 white 8-pointed stars; in center white "CA".
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 23 Feb 2005

Apollo Shipping

Dov Gutterman reported the link of Apollo Shipping GmbH & Co.KG - ASG and wavy lines on white.
Santiago Dotor, 6 Nov 2003

Heinrich F.C. Arp

The problem is that this flag is unclear and its caption is even more unclear. It's a triangular flag with a red border around the top and bottom and a narrow vertical stripe near the fly, also red (creating the shape of an A). In the larger white area there's some sort of abbreviation that I cannot make out. The caption is huge, occupying two lines of tiny little letters. Of course, it's totally blurred and all I can do is guess. Could the top line be "Hesmeth & C. Argo"?
Jorge Candeias, 6 Jan 2005

Cleverly done, this flag. I couldn't read all of the caption but it seemed like Heinrich ... Arp... something... The letters inside the 'A' were unclear, too. A Google search for "reederei arp" led to this faint trace. The fourth ship is the "Maike" owned by 'Reederei Arp & Thordsen'.
I checked the on-line 1912 Lloyds Flags & Funnels and there was No. 1433: i.e. 'Heinrich F.C. Arp (S. Öllgaard & Thoersen), Hamburg. 'Thoersen' seems to be correct, there are more traces now; the complete name of the firm would then be: 'Heinrich F.C. Arp Dampfschiffs-Reederei (S. Öllgaard und Thoersen)'.
Jan Mertens, 7 Jan 2005

Artus Danziger Reederei

Atlantic Reederei R & W Joch

Atlantic Reederei R & W Joch K.G., Hamburg - white flag; in bottom fly blue "A"; in canton horizontal black over white over red stripes.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 15 Sep 2005