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House Flags of German Shipping Companies (b)

Other "B" companies:

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Baltische Reederei

image by Jarig Bakker, 14 Dec 2004

Baltische Reederei, Hamburg - a white saltire between (top and bottom) yellow) and (right and left) blue; in the center a white disk charged with a black "B"; flag bordered white.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 14 Dec 2004

Baum & Co

image by Jarig Bakker, 6 Nov 2003

Dov Gutterman reported the link of Baum & Co., (Nordenham) - A canting flag (German Baum meaning tree). Flag is blue with a white diamond neraly touching all sides, charged with a green tree, with "&" on its stem and below the tree capitals CO, all blue.
Santiago Dotor, 6 Nov 2003

Behnke & Sieg

image by Jorge Candeias, 24 Dec 2004

The flag is quartered per saltire in blue an white, with black serifed initials in the white quarters (hoist and fly): B and S. The caption is simply not legible. Guessing like crazy, I came up with something in the lines of Behnda & Sipg.
Jorge Candeias, 24 Dec 2004

It's Behnke & Sieg, Danzig as shown in the on-line 1912 Lloyds Flags & Funnels as No. 13. In fact, it's one of the table flags Josef Nuesse would like to add to his collection.
Jan Mertens, 25 Dec 2004

Bischoff Gruppe

image by Jorge Candeias, 7 Feb 1999

White with dark red triangles above and below, relatively narrow, linked by a central disc also dark red. At the hoist and at the fly, the black letters "B" and "C", respectively; on the disc the sign "&" in white.
Jorge Candeias, 7 Feb 1999

Bischoff Gruppe appears to have originated as Bremer Reederei Bruno Bischoff & Co. GmbH with a couple of subsequent variations noted in Lloyds before becoming Bruno Bischoff Reederei Gmbh & Co. K.G. in 1981. By the late 1990s it had become a subsidiary of the Icelandic company Samskip H/F and this appears to have coincided with their dropping the naming system of their vessels which previously all had the 1st name of "Bremer".
Neale Rosanoski, 3 Jan 2003

Bismark Linie

image by Jorge Candeias, 3 Jan 2005

The flag is a swallowtail, horizontally bicoloured, blue at the top and yellow below, with a red seriffed B in the center of the flag (excluding the tails). And the caption reads "Bismark Linie".
Jorge Candeias, 3 Jan 2005

B. Blumenfeld

image by Jarig Bakker, 10 Feb 2005

B. Blumenfeld, Hamburg - green - white - black triband; white disk, charged with two hammers in saltire and B^DB, all black.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 10 Feb 2005

J.M. Blumenthal

image by Jarig Bakker, 1 Feb 2005

J.M. Blumenthal, Hamburg - white flag with red stripes; in center black "B".
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 1 Feb 2005

J.F. Braeunlich

image by Jorge Candeias, 29 Nov 2004

I'm not sure about the caption *and* the details of the flag. For certain, it's only that that flag is red with a white lozenge, black letters inside the lozenge and in the two corners of the top. But practically all letters are uncertain. In the lozenge, I'm pretty confident that the two first ones are a J and an F, but that confidence vanishes when we begin talking about the last one. I suppose it's an H, but that's it.
Regarding the letters at the top, they are all very far from being certain. Some coincidences, though, have led me to believe them to be the initials of this company, and those are, according to the caption, "SDG".
And SDG is the only thing understandable in that caption. The first word is totally blurred, the second might have some similarities with "Dusgha" and the third might be "Ges", which is some sort of abbreviation. And that's it.
Jorge Candeias, 29 Nov 2004

Surely this is the Stettiner Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft J.F. Braeunlich - see here (company history *passim*): House flag in black and white photo on this page, left one in eleventh row here - plus large image in colour (but no 'additional' letters) top of this page, whereas here we see a coloured post card showing a flag with 'additional' letters on this webpage.
On this Lloyd 1912 page it's No. 1333 aka 'Stettiner Dampfschiffs Gesellschaft J.F. Braeunlich, G.m.b.H., Stettin'. The letters in the upper corners are there allright, they simply complete the J.F.B. company initials. This originally German company had a long life (see site mentioned in previous message) but, as we know, changed countries.
Jan Mertens, 30 Nov 2004

Bremen Südamerika Linie

[Bremen Sudamerika Linie GmbH & Co KG (Shipping Company, Germany)]

image by Jorge Candeias, 29 Apr 2002

Bremen Südamerika Linie GmbH & Co KG - a German company that links Europe and Brazil - particularly northwestern Brazil and the Amazon basin - and is represented in Portugal by Garland Navegação. Its logo consists of a flag that can be described as that of Bremen with a blue triangle based at the fly and with the third angle vertically centered at about 2/12ths of the length. The triangle is charged with the sigla BSL in white. There is always the possibility that the real flag is something different than this, but I am sending along what I suppose is the company flag.
Jorge Candeias, 29 Apr 2002

Briese Schiffahrts K.G.

image by Jarig Bakker, 30 Sep 2005

Briese Schiffahrts K.G., Emden - white flag. the firm's logo. (black-red-blue are the East-Frisian colors)
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 30 Sep 2005

Brinckmann & Albers

image by Jorge Candeias, 10 Jan 2005

The flag is red with a white lozenge touching the edges and black initials "B&A" in the center. And the caption seems to read "Brickmann & Albers".
Jorge Candeias, 29 Apr 2002

F. M. Bruhn

image by Jorge Candeias, 3 May 2004

Another one from my old files, but now the caption is clear: the name of the company is F. M. Bruhn. The flag is, again, blue and, again, contains a white star, only this time with 5 points and bearing a red "B" within..
Jorge Candeias, 3 May 2004

Buss shipping company

image by Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Dov Gutterman spotted the link of Buss shipping company: flag: white, in center narrow black stripe, interrupted by blue "S".
Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Carl Büttner

[Carl Buttner (Shipping Company, Germany)]

image by Al Fisher

A pinkish (possibly red?) flag with initials "C.B." and a five-pointed star on each corner, all white.
Santiago Dotor, 10 May 2005

I saw on a stage of the Tour de France a red flag with the white letters C.B. and a white star in each corner. It looks like the house flag of a shipping company, but it is probably not. I guess it refers to a competitor with initials C.B. and> four wins (not in the Tour de France, most probably).
Ivan Sache, 13 Jul 2005

That is the house flag of German company, Carl Büttner.
That leaves the question: why???
Jan Mertens, 14 Jul 2005

Either they have a team in the race or a group of Büttner employees was in the cheering section and wanted to let the world know. No big mystery. If a bunch of Mongolians was on holiday there they might easily have displayed the Mongolian flag, especially after a few rounds of fermented mare's milk. I've seen various flags displayed at the Boston Marathon and, when Pedro Martinez played for the Red Sox, Dominican flags were a hot item at local shops and at the ball park.
Albert S. Kirsch, 14 Jul 2005