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Wachsmuth & Krogmann

[Wachsmuth & Krogmann] image by Jorge Candeias, 30 Dec 2004

The flag is white with a broad 3-sided red border and with very large initials W&K occupying almost the whole of the white area. The caption, guessing like crazy, seems to read "Watsmidt & Kognise".
Jorge Candeias, 30 Dec 2004

It's No. 2083 (Sailing Vessels section) in the on-line 1912 Lloyds Flags & Funnels, i.e. 'Wachsmuth & Krogmann, Hamburg'.
Jan Mertens, 31 Dec 2004

Reederei Warrings

[Reederei Warrings (Shipping Company, Germany)] image by Jorge Candeias, 10 Mar 1999

An East-Friesland-like flag, probably with a family resemblance: black-red-blue horizontal tricolour with a white lozenge, fimbriated black, centred and charged with a black 'W'.
Jorge Candeias, 10 Mar 1999

Reederei Warrings. Brown 1995 shows the flag with a blue "W" in the name of Bernhard Warrings who appears to be the originator of a family group of which Rita Warrings and Harle Warrings Reederei are the last components which I have been able to trace.
Neale Rosanoski, 25 Oct 2004

D.H. Wätjen & Co.

[D.H. Wätjen & Co.] image by Jorge Candeias, 4 May 2004

This time the caption is really illegible, so that "D. H. Watice &  Co." above is nothing but pure guesswork.
Jorge Candeias, 4 May 2004

I read "D.H. Wätjen & Co." out of the caption, and indeed a Google search will find a ship and a shipping company of that name.
Stefan Schwoon, 5 May 2004

A.G. Weser, Bremen

A.G. Weser, Bremen: blue with thin white horizontal edges and... what is this white figure? a ship? or initials in filigrane perhaps?
Jan Mertens, 16 Nov 2003

Wessels

[Wessels (Shipping Company, Germany)] image by Jorge Candeias, 10 Feb 1999

Blue with white inscription 'WESSELS' in italics. The 'W', however, is transformed into a navigating ship through its shape, a wavy line below and light blue additions of several parts typical of cargo ships.
Jorge Candeias, 10 Feb 1999

Wessels Offshore Schleep

[Wessels Offshore Schleep] image by Jarig Bakker, 11 Sep 2005

Wessels Offshore Schleep G.m.b.H & Co., K.G., Emden - BWB flag proportioned c. 1:3:1, in center red "W". ("Schleep" is saksisch for tug)
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 11 Sep 2005

Westfal-Larsen

[Westfal-Larsen] image by James Dignan, 15 Oct 2003

Image from "The dumpy book of ships and the sea" (ed. Henry Sampson, published by Sampson Low, London, circa 1957). Caption: Westfal-Larsen & co.
James Dignan, 15 Oct 2003

Th. Wille

[Th. Wille] image by Jorge Candeias, 6 Jan 2005

The flag is a triangular blue flag with the company's initials in white: "T.W.". And the caption reads "Th. Wille".
Jorge Candeias, 6 Jan 2005

This must be the Th(eodor) Wille in question - we see his gravestone here. Dates 1818-1892. Founded a coffee export firm in Brazil in 1844, back in 1847 and active in insurance and shipping (not only in Germany but also in Brazil: fisheries, first telephone grid in Rio de Janeiro), helped found the well-known Commerzbank, left a fortune to Kiel (his hometown) to be used for education (university etc.).
Jan Mertens, 7 Jan 2005

Heinz Winter

[Heinz Winter] image by Jarig Bakker, 7 Sep 2005

Heinz Winter, K.G., Jork - triband NWN, on white small "H" above large "W", all black.
Jork is a few kms west of Hamburg along the Elbe river.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 7 Sep 2005

Witt & Büsch

[Witt & Büsch] image by Jorge Candeias, 23 Dec 2004

The flag is a red saltire on white, with two initials in the hoist and fly quarters: W and B. I think they are blue, but there are some doubts there. In the caption there are also some doubts, but not many: it's something like Will & Büsch.
Jorge Candeias, 23 Dec 2004

I'm inclined to think it's 'Witt & Büsch' as there are traces (on the net) of such a firm engaged in African colonial trade (with German Cameroun, for instance) and cooperating with Woermann.
Jan Mertens, 27 Dec 2004

Schiffahrtskontor tom Wörden

[Schiffahrtskontor tom Wörden (Shipping Company, Germany)] image by Jorge Candeias, 13 Mar 1999

Quartered per saltire, blue in the top and bottom and white at the hoist and fly, with a red 't' on the hoist field and a red 'W' on the fly field.
Jorge Candeias, 13 Mar 1999

Woermann Line

[Woermann Line] image by Jarig Bakker, 9 May 2004

Image of the Woermann Linie, Hamburg, after Wolter's See und Seefahrt, 1968
Jarig Bakker, 9 May 2004

Woermann Line variant

[Woermann Line variant] image by Jarig Bakker, 9 May 2004

Image of the Woermann Linie, Hamburg, after Wolter's See und Seefahrt, 1968
Jarig Bakker, 9 May 2004