House flags of British shipping companies (1)

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• Borchard Lines Ltd.
• British and Commonwealth Shipping Co. Ltd.
• Brittanny Ferries Truckline
• Bulk Oil Steamship co. Ltd
• Burnett Steamship Co., Ltd.
• Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd.

• House flags of British shipping companies
• House flags of shipping companies
• United Kingdom

The Clan and the Union Castle lines and their associated companies, the Houston, Scottish Shire, Scottish Tanker, Thompson, Natal, and King Lines, were merged in 1956, under the title of the British and Commonwealth Shipping Company Ltd. At the same time a distinctive flag was adopted. It comprises a navy blue swallow-tailed pennant charged with a white-bordered diagonal red cross: on the centerthereof, a large white diamond bearing a red lion rampant. This, it will be observed, is a unique combination of the designs of the Clan and Union Castle house flags. It is worn by all ships in the group and is hoisted superior to their respective house flags.
Source: Carr (1961)
Jarig Bakker, 31 July 2001

Brittanny Ferries Truckline

Yellow with a large black disc centered charged with a narrow grey arc near the edge.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Mar 1999

Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd.

I have a source which shows the Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. houseflag as a regular red-white-blue vertical tricolor with the thistle centered on the white stripe.
Source: Stewart (1953)
Ned Smith, 1 July 2003