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by Phil Nelson, 2000-Sep-19
Source: Colin Stewart and John B. Styring: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963 [ssy63].
Thordén Lines, Uddevalla.
Ole Andersen, 2000-Sep-19
by Phil Nelson, 2000-Sep-20
Source: Colin Stewart and John B. Styring: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963 [ssy63].
Thore-rederierna, Jonstorp.
Ole Andersen, 2000-Sep-20
by Phil Nelson, 2000-Sep-21
Source: Colin Stewart and John B. Styring: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963 [ssy63].
From Gothenburg.
Phil Nelson, 2000-Sep-21
The watch manufacturer Timex was (don't know if it still is) owned by Fred. Olsen family, best known for their shipping activities - see their house flag at Fred. Olsen.
Jan Oskar Engene, 2000-Sep-21
Editor's note: it still seems unclear, whether this shipping company had anything to do with the watch manufacturing company by the same name. If any reader of this page knows, please contact us (e-mail on top of page)!
by Phil Nelson, 2000-Sep-18
Source: Colin Stewart and John B. Styring: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963 [ssy63].
A/B Tirfing (Axel Broström & Son, Gothenburg)
Mark Sensen, 2000-Nov-21
See also Broströms
by Phil Nelson, 2000-Sep-23
Source: Colin Stewart and John B. Styring: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963 [ssy63].
I assume that the company is in fact Rederiaktiebolaget Transatlantic, given
the letters R-A-B-T.
Ole Andersen, 2000-Sep-23
by Phil Nelson, 2000-Sep-23
Source: Colin Stewart and John B. Styring: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963 [ssy63].
by Phil Nelson, 2000-Sep-23
Source: Colin Stewart and John B. Styring: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963 [ssy63].
http://w1.435.telia.com/~u43505985/SHIPP1.HTML shows this flag with a much thicker T, and with a truly strange field colour, but I assume it is a scanning artifact (intense light + enamel).
Ole Andersen, 2000-Sep-23
by Phil Nelson, 2000-Sep-23
Source: Colin Stewart and John B. Styring: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963 [ssy63].
http://w1.435.telia.com/~u43505985/SHIPP1.HTML has this much more like a yellow cross on blue - Phil's image looks more like a blue saltire on yellow.
Ole Andersen, 2000-Sep-23
The flag should have the yellow
"cross" more off centre, a bit like the Swedish national flag. I have seen
this flag up close at the Museum of Sea History (Sjöhistoriska Museet) in
Stockholm.
Elias Granqvist, 2001-Mar-31
Waxholms Ångfartygs AB (Sweden) - Vertically divided swallowtail, yellow and blue with a large, massive, black "W" over all.
Jorge Candeias, 2001-Mar-28
This company have passenger lines from Stockholm out in the archipelago,
e.g. to the town of Vaxholm, which used to be spelled "Waxholm". A short
form of the company's name is Waxholmsbolaget.
Elias Granqvist, 2001-Mar-29
In a site found by Joe a while back: here there's a flag attributed to a Wilhelmsen Steamship Line, a white flag with a blue W, centered.
Jorge Candeias, 2 June 2002
So, the Brazilian web site is in error in labelling it Swedish.
However, the company has a Swedish connection. In recent times Wilhelmsen cooperates with the Swedish shipping company Wallenius. This company is known as Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines (which was the company that operated the Tampa, the ship that picked up some shipwrecked people off Indonesia and had some difficulties with the Australian government over where to land them). I am not sure, but I think the house flag of Wallenius Wilhelmsen is the very same blue W on white.
Jan Oskar Engene, 5 June 2002