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House Flags of German Shipping Companies (l)

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F. Laeisz, Hamburg

image by Ivan Sache, 14 Jan 2004

Following the link found by Joe Mc Millan - The Mystic Seaport Foundation, we can reach the 1911 Lloyd's flagbook, whose full title is (after the scan of the cover): 'Lloyd's book of house flags and funnels of the principal steamship lines of the world and the house flags of various lines of sailing vessels', published at Lloyd's Royal Exchange. London. E.C.
On p. 133, we have: #2030. F. Laeisz, Hamburg. The flag is white with red letters F L. The company still exists.
Ivan Sache, 14 Jan 2004

LEA Shipping

image by Ivan Sache, 7 Jul 2005

Here is another house flag: quarterly per saltire, left and right triangles white, upper and lower ones blue; in the middle, a white blue-rimmed oval containing red letters ‘LEA’.
‘Lea Shipping’ (or “Lea Schiffahrtsges, Hamburg”) in the page title actually refers to the ‘Leo Adams’ shipping company, Hamburg.
On the other hand, ‘Lea Schiffahrts GmbH’ and ‘Leo Adams Reederei’ were perhaps two distinct, but related, companies?
Jan Mertens, 5 Jul 2005

Leonhardt & Blumberg

image by Jorge Candeias, 22 Dec 2004

The flag is white with a narrow red saltire under a black cross with the same thickness and a white square occupying the intersection (would have been hollowing it if instead of white appeared the red intersection of the saltire's arms). German national colours, a striking and if not unique at least rare design, great stuff. But the caption is very hard to read. The same thing happens whenever it includes lots of letters. Guessing more than reading, I came up with two surnames: Leinhardt & Blumberg.
Jorge Candeias, 22 Dec 2004

Leonhardt & Blumberg, Hamburg.
Jarig Bakker, 22 Dec 2004

Lütgens & Reimers

image by Jorge Candeias, 16 Dec 2004

The flag itself offers no doubts: it's vertical triband of white-red-white, with a black seriffed initial centered on each stripe: "L & R". The caption is a bit more doubful but it seems to me to read "Lugens & Raimers".
Jorge Candeias, 16 Dec 2004

"Lütgens & Reimers, Hamburg tugboat company (Hapag-Lloyd ownership -1994)" as presented by Josef Nuesse.
Jan Mertens, 17 Dec 2004