House flags of British shipping companies (7)

Last modified: 2002-07-05 by rob raeside
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• Palm Line
• Peninsular & Occidental Line
• Peninsular and Oriental (P&O)
• Port Line Ltd.
• Purvis Shipping Co., Ltd.
• Red Funnel Line
• Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons Ltd.
• Southern Line, Ltd.
• Straits Steamship Co., Ltd.
• Swayne & Hoyt Lines

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by Jarig Bakker, 04 Feb 2002

I found the Palm Line house flag in "All about Ships and Shipping", Edwin P. Harnack, (1959 edition).  The scan doesn't show it well, but it is all dark green.
Jarig Bakker, 04 Feb 2002

Quartered per saltire in white, red, yellow and blue.
Jorge Candeias, 23 Feb 1999

Throughout its 150 years P&O has been a premier British shipowner, and in its time the largest in the world. [About the flag:] It has flown the same quartered flag, embodying the royal colours of Portugal and Spain, from its very beginnings.
Jarig Bakker, 22 Jan 1999, quoting from the P&O website.

This image is redrawn from one provided by Ted Harrison, based on a menu card from the shipping line.

by Phil Nelson, 9 April 2000

from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963: note the narrower crosses.

The Port Line was in operation from about 1923 to 1980.

Purvis Shipping Co., Ltd

from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963

Red Funnel Line

a.k.a. Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Public Limited Company

Quartered per saltire in white, green, red and blue.
Jorge Candeias, 23 Feb 1999

The Southampton Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Public Limited Company. Universally known as Red Funnel for short.
Roy Stilling

The Southampton and Isle of Wight RMSP Co Ltd used a diagonally divided flag that was - clockwise from the top - white, green, red and blue.
James Dignan

from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963

Southern Line, Ltd.

from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963

Straits Steamship Co., Ltd.

The old Straits Steamship Company operated out of Singapore. The Company was associated with the Blue Funnel Line (Alfred Holt & Co.) Liverpool. It was operating for around 100 yrs up to the late 1950's when it was bought out by Kepal.
John Bax, 6 July 2001

Flag is blue ground; white cross on red diamond, according to Lloyd's Calendar (1957). Grote Elsevier Atlas (1951) has an image for Straits Lines (Gr. Br.), which I have used to make this image. The funnel in Elsevier's has a thin white line between the black and blue (as on the Blue Funnel funnel).
Jarig Bakker, 6 July 2001

Talbot-Booth (c1934) shows a large diamond with the corners almost touching the edges of the flag, but Stewart (1953), revised by Styring (1963), shows a small diamond with the corners well back from the edges of the flag.
David Prothero, 7 July 2001

Swayne & Hoyt Lines