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by Joseph McMillan
Source: Josef Nuesse's website Reedereiflaggen: House Flags of Shipping Companies.
by Joseph McMillan
Source: Josef Nuesse's website Reedereiflaggen: House Flags of Shipping Companies.
by Joseph McMillan
Horizontal black-white-red with a thin yellow
horizontal stripe on the middle of the white. From
http://www.alianca.com.br.
Dov Gutterman, 15 January 1999
According to the company website,
Companhia Aliança de Navegação was founded in 1951 by a German
immigrant named Carl Fischer, who had arrived in Brazil in 1928 and
entered the fruit business. Aliança was originally limited to
coastal trade, since Lloyd Brasileiro, the government-owned line, had
a legal monopoly over the transoceanic traffic. Aliança was allowed
to enter the foreign trade in 1967 and now serves Europe, the U.S.
east coast, the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, and both coasts of
South America. It has 5 vessels totaling 178,000 deadweight tons,
employs 283 people, and had revenues of US hf180,000,000 in 1999.
I would speculate that Fischer's German origins would account for the
black-white-red horizontal tricolor that serves as the field of the house flag.
Joseph McMillan, 26 March 2002
by
Al Fisher
Flag from www.dgagency.com/Amazon.html (no longer on-line).
Dov Gutterman, 11 February 1999
by Jorge Candeias
This name translates as the Cabotage (i.e., coastwise shipping) Company of Pernambuco.
The flag can be described as dark blue charged in the center by a white
panel, in turn charged in the center by a dark red panel and a saltire
overall, also dark red. The company initials, CCP, are black and centered
on the red panel. Not bad a flag, methinks.
Source: Chart of house flags
circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 3 August 2002
Despite the presence of Pernambuco in the name, actually based in
Santos, São Paulo. Operated one ship of 5,000 gross tons, according to Lloyd's Register 1949-50.
Joseph McMillan, 28 October 2002
by Jorge Candeias
Carneiro is a common Portuguese surname (meaning "male sheep"), so it's
basically Carneiro's industrial company. The flag is a green and white
horizontal triband, with the company initials: C, in white, in upper hoist,
I, in green in the center, and L, in white, in the lower fly.
Source: Chart of house flags
circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 30 June 2002
by
Joseph
McMillan
Source: Josef Nuesse's website Reedereiflaggen: House Flags of Shipping Companies.
by Joseph McMillan
From E. C. Talbot-Booth, Merchant Ships 1949-1950 (New York: McGraw Hill and London: Sampson Low, 1949):
Rio de Janeiro - Service to most Brazilian ports plus the United States and Europe. Managed by
Pereira Carneiro. Steamship owners since 1907, controlled by Cia
Carbonífera Rio Grandense. The flag was blue with a white diagonal
stripe, upper hoist to lower fly, inscribed in red letters CCN.
Joseph McMillan, 29 October 2002
by Jorge Candeias
Flag from www.grupolibra.com (no longer available).
Dov Gutterman, 20 January 1999
Very dark green, a white lozenge with a red "A" centered.
Jorge Candeias, 4 February 1999
by Joseph McMillan
Sources: Brown's Flags and Funnels (1951); Stewart and Styring (1963); U.S. Navy H.O. Pub 100. This company is apparently defunct. Joseph McMillan, 29 June 2001
According to E. C. Talbot-Booth, Merchant Ships 1949-1950 (New York: McGraw Hill and London: Sampson Low, 1949), Costeira was founded in 1891. Talbot-Booth shows the flag with a normal cross paty rather than the straight-edged one above. Flaggenbuch 1905 (1909 supplement) shows the cross as four isosceles triangles that don't quite meet in the middle.The Companhia Nacional de Navegação Costeira operated coastal voyages
between Rio and northern Brazilian ports (e.g., Natal, Fortaleza, Recife, Salvador). The ships were apparently quite luxurious, at
least in first class, described in one account I found as um grande playground, with voyages considered a vacation in themselves. The
line was nicknamed "Itas do Norte" from the names of the ships, all of which began with the prefix "Ita-." Supposedly the original owner
was a man named Laje, which is a Portuguese word for "stone" [actually "flagstone"] and ita means
"stone" in Tupi. Readers of Jorge Amado's novel Gabriela, cravo e canela
(Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon) may recall that it was an Ita ship that
carried the protagonist, Mundinho Falcão, back and forth from Rio to
Ilhéus, the grounding of which provoked the dredging of the port that was
an important part of the background of the story. Costeira was nationalized at some point before 1942,
then merged in 1966 with the
government-owned Lloyd Brasileiro to form
"Companhia de Navegação Lloyd
Brasileiro e da Empresa de Reparos Nacional 'Costeira', S.A." In other words, Costeira apparently
became the ship repair arm of Lloydbras.
Lloydbras itself was abolished in 1998.
Joseph McMillan, 28 October 2002
And do Norte (meaning "northern") in the nickname Itas do Norte because the harbors served were
northern Brazilian cities. Adding to the trivia, a well-known Brazilian traditional tune goes:
Peguei um Ita do Norte(Morar and Pará do rhyme in most Portuguese-Brazilian dialects.)
e vim p'ró Rio morar:
Adeus, meu pai, minha mãe,
adeus, Belém do Pará!
Henrique Lage (not Laje, but still a pun because of the same sound) was one
serious industrial magnate--shipbuilding, salt refining, first aircraft factory in Brazil, port and river navigation development,
mining, benefactor of the military academy, close friend of President Getúlio
Vargas (dictator of Brazil beginning in 1930), you name it. And founder of the Costeira Line. His estate is now the Rio de
Janeiro Botanical Gardens, otherwise known as Parque Lage.
Joseph McMillan, 29 October 2002
by Jorge Candeias
The flag shows 7 white and red horizontal stripes with a blue "C" in a white
canton. The C stands almost certainly for Coutinho, a relatively common Portuguese surname.
Source: Chart of house flags
circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 4 June 2002
Listed in Lloyd's Register 1949-50 as operating three vessels totaling about 900 tons.
Joseph McMillan, 28 October 2002
by Jorge Candeias
Diaz Irmão can be a name, but it's more likely that it means "Diaz and Brother," so this company's name
can probably be translated as "Diaz, Brother and Co." Diaz is a Spanish name, by the way.
The flag is blue over white with large countercharged initials "SCN" in the centre.
Funny thing, these letters bear no resemblance to the company name.
Source: Chart of house flags circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 5 June 2002
by
Joseph
McMillan
Source: Josef Nuesse's website Reedereiflaggen: House Flags of Shipping Companies.
According to the DOCENAVE and
Vale do Rio Doce company websites,
DOCENAVE, or Navegação Vale do Rio Doce, S.A., was formed in 1962 and
is the shipping arm of the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), a huge, formerly
state-owned
company (privatized in 1998) with mining, industrial, forest product, transport
and port operations interests in Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo,
Pará, and Maranhão states. CVRD itself was created in 1942 to
implement the Brazilian government's takeover, under a U.S.-UK-
Brazilian agreement, of American and British iron mining and railroad
interests in Minas Gerais as part of the Allied war effort. DOCENAVE
claims to be one of the 10 largest transoceanic shipping companies in
the world. Most of its operations are conducted through a Liberian-
flagged subsidiary, SeaMar. Including both foreign and domestic
services, DOCENAVE and its subsidiaries operate about 24 ocean-going
vessels (plus eight tugs), 10 of them under the Brazilian flag.
Routes connect Brazil to the U.S. east and west coasts, the
Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, and the Far East,
carrying primarily ferrous and non-ferrous ores, oil, and grain.
Joseph McMillan, 26 March 2002