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House Flags of German Shipping Companies (d)

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Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft

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Danziger Rhederei

image and scan by Jorge Candeias, 9 Dec 2004

This flag is a white over red bicolour, with two large blue initials T and R in the center and a third, smaller, letter between them, also in blue. I suppose this is a "&", but I'm far from being sure. The caption, once more, is very hard to read. Half-reading, half-guessing, I came up with "Turiger Rh. A. G.", but this is probably wrong.
Jorge Candeias, 9 Dec 2004

I read Danziger Rhederei A.G.
Jan Mertens, 11 Dec 2004

Deppe Lines

image by Jarig Bakker, 5 Nov 2003

From a Google cache (news flash from 24 Sept.) we learn that:
"Deppe Line will withdraw from liner shipping effective 31 October. To confirm with the FMC status of vessel operator, the Hamburg-based H. Schuldt-owned carrier formally chartered a ship (lately a 3,000 TEU unit) from its long-standing partner Lykes Lines (CP Ships).
Deppe, which had its roots in Belgium (Armement Deppe) used to offer space on three weekly box services between N. Europe and the US East Coast and Gulf, including Mexico."

I do not know anything about the degree of relationship between Deppe Lines (DE) and Armement Deppe, but anyway, here goes:
Company website: The Delta points to "Deppe", surely, and the choice of colours may not be accidental.
A quick look did not reveal anything on withdrawing from the shipping business... But if the flag waves on, who are we to complain?
Jan Mertens, 5 Nov 2003

Detjen

image by Jarig Bakker, 6 Nov 2003

Friedrich A. Detjen G.m.b.H. & Co., Hamburg - Dov Gutterman reported the link of Detjen - flag: white with red bordered white diamond charged with black capital D. At the history page of that site the black thingies at top and bottom on a Macromedia Flash image are replaced by black shadows underlining the flag flying. On that same history page is another houseflag: white with a vertical chevron with in the center a capital D. It's black and white, though...
Santiago Dotor, 6 Nov 2003

Deutsch-Australische Dampf Gesellschaft

image by Jorge Candeias, 23 Dec 2004

I would't call this design striking, but it's definitely interesting: a sort of red and black saltire on white, where the saltire is formed by two overlapping diagonals, the one that runs from top hoist to bottom fly disposed above the other one, and both divided in two halves, the hoist half red and the fly half black. The caption is another nightmare. The first word looks like "Olick", OSLT, the second one seems to be "Rusit", or "Dusit", the third is completely unreadable, but seems to begin with a D, and the third one might be the "Gem." abbreviation.
Jorge Candeias, 23 Dec 2004

It's the Deutsch-Australische Dampfschiff(ahrts)-Gesellschaft, Hamburg. The flag can be seen on a pdf file from the 1902 Brockhaus encyclopedia. No Australian angle as far as I can see, only the (then) German national flag colours.
Jan Mertens, 24 Dec 2004

Deutsche Bundesbahn Ferries

[State Flag, State Ensign and War Flag (Germany)]

image by Marcus Schmöger

As far as I know, German ferries in the Baltic Sea in the past wore the state ensign, not the civil ensign, as they belonged to the Deutsche Bundesbahn (federal railways).
Ralf Stelter, 14 Feb 2001

Deutsche Bundesbahn Ferries. The current Deutsche Bundesbahn dates from the 1990 merger of Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany) and Deutsche Bundesbahn - Hannover according to Lloyds Groups though I don't know how correct the latter title is as previously both Lloyds and German sources show it as Deutsche Bundesbahn Bundesbahndirecktion Hamburg [shown by Lloyds in the 1950s as Deutsche Bundesbahn Eisenbahndirecktion Hamburg]. This latter had its own flag as shown by Die Deutsche Handelsflotte 1957 of white with a black "winged" reverse triangle of the black, red and gold colours with the point being between the black letters "D" and "B" [see below] and was the bigger of the 2 West German rail ferry companies. The other was Deutsche Bundesbahn Bundesbahndirektion Münster but its sole small ferry "Wangerooge" seems to have finished prior to the merger and there is no indication of what, if any, flag it used.
Neale Rosanoski, 13 Oct 2004

Deutsche Bundesbahn Eisenbahndirecktion Hamburg

image sent by Neale Rosanoski, 13 Oct 2004

Deutsche Levant-Linie

image by James Dignan, 13 Oct 2003

Image from "The dumpy book of ships and the sea" (ed. Henry Sampson, published by Sampson Low, London, circa 1957).", captioned: Deutsche Levant-Linie.
James Dignan, 13 Oct 2003

German - Continental Ports - Mediterranean and Black Sea. Houseflag: Red and White, quartered diagonally, with DL in White on Black Disk in centre.
Jarig Bakker, 13 Oct 2003

Deutsche Nah-Ost Linie

image by Jarig Bakker, 4 Sep 2005

Deutsche Nah-Ost Linie, Hamburg - white flag, the firm's logo.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 4 Sep 2005

Deutsche Orient Linie

image by Jarig Bakker, 10 Feb 2005

Deutsche Orient Linie, Stettin - white flag, white saltire bordered red and black; in center black diamond contoured white; white "DOL".
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

Deutsch Ost-Afrika Linie

image by Jorge Candeias, 10 Jan 2005

Image from "The dumpy book of ships and the sea" (ed. Henry Sampson, published by Sampson Low, London, circa 1957).", captioned: Deutsch Ost-Afrika Linie.
James Dignan, 8 Oct 2003

German East-Africa line, Hamburg. - Shipping company. Started 19 Apr 1890 by the companies C Woermann, F. Laeisz, August Bolten and Hansing & Co in connection with the acquisition of the "German East Africa" colony. Beginning in 1891 weekly trips from Hamburg by the Mediterranean to Bombay-Zanzibar (1892). In 1914 its fleet consisted of 22 steamers with approx. 110000 BRT. After 1920 reconstruction. 1941 bought the cigarette manufacturer Hermann Reemtsma and passed it on later to Hamburg tank shipowner John T. Essberger. Since then the German East Africa line has operated German Africa lines.
Sourse: this webpage.
Phil Nelson, 8 Oct 2003

H. Diederichsen & Co.

image by Jorge Candeias, 30 Dec 2004

The flag is blue with a white bolrder in three sides, leaving the hoist side out, and a white initial "D" in the center. The caption has an initial, H. and a long word, which I guess is "Dlederidars".
Jorge Candeias, 30 Dec 2004

It's No. 28 in the on-line 1912 Lloyds Flags & Funnels, i.e. 'H. Diederichsen & Co., Kiel'. (In this picture, the 'D' is slightly more elaborate.)
Jan Mertens, 31 Dec 2004

Peter Döhle Schiffahrts KG

image by Jorge Candeias, 18 Feb 1999

Red, with a narrow white lozenge and two very narrow horizontal white stripes along the top and bottom edges of the flag. In the lozenge, the letters 'PD' in black bold capitals.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Feb 1999