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image by Jorge Candeias
Empresa Comércio e Navegação Fluvial means "Trade and River Navigation
Corporation". João Luís da Silva is, again, a name. The flag is a
red-white-red horizontal triband, with a white triangle at hoist, charged
with a red star, and containing the initials "E.C.N.F." in the white
stripe, in red. Without these initials, this would be a good flag.
Source: Chart of house flags
circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 2 June 2002
image by Jorge Candeias
Companhia Brasileira de Navegação do Rio Amazonas - This name can be translated as "Brazilian Company
of Navigation of the Amazon River." The flag is white containing a couple of anchors disposed in saltire.
Source: Chart of house flags
circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 4 June 2002
This is now the Pará-state-owned Empresa de Navegação da Amazônia, S.A. (ENASA), using the same
flag. Viewable at the company website, in the upper left corner of the page.
Joseph McMillan, 4 June 2002
ENASA is owned by the state of Pará and serves Amazon river ports
between Belém and Manaus. It was founded in 1852 as the Companhia
de Navegação e Comércio do Amazonas, a private firm subsidized by
the imperial treasury. In 1872, it was sold to British investors and
became the Amazon Steam Navigation Co., Ltda., still subsidized by
the imperial government as a means of developing the Amazon
hinterland. The Brazilian federal government nationalized the
company in 1940 and combined it with the port authority of Belém and
other ports in Pará to become the Serviço de Navegação e
Administração dos Portos do Pará, or SNAAPP. SNAAPP was broken up
in 1967, with the state ports authority becoming separate from the
shipping line, which was renamed ENASA.
Source: Pará state
government website
Joseph McMillan, 26 March 2002
image by Jarig Bakker, 14 October
2005
Loughran (1979) shows this flag of Empresa
de Navegacoa do Amazonica S.A. (ENASA), Para as white; in center two red
anchors in saltire; at hoist top slanting underlined blue "ENASA".
Jarig Bakker, 14 October
2005
image by Joseph McMillan
The name means "Hope" Maritime Enterprise. The flag was blue with a red saltire between the
letters E, E, M, N all in white, all within a yellow border. The "N" on the
flag probably stands for either navegação or nacional.
Source:1909 suppplement to the Germany Navy's 1905 Flaggenbuch
Joseph McMillan, 11 February 2003
image by Jorge Candeias
This is a flag attributed by the source to the government of the state of Espírito Santo,
though hasn't got the slightest resemblance to the state flag.
It's a green flag with a
national-flag-like lozenge in the center, in white, bearing two interwined letters, T and C,
in black. This might be related to the state motto (Trabalha e Confia).
Source: Chart of house flags
circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 5 June 2002
As for the initials T-C, I could generate a number of guesses
(Transportes Capixabas, for example, capixaba being the adjective
for something having to do with Espírito Santo), but without evidence
they are just guesses.
Joseph McMillan, 28 October 2002
I note from Lloyd's Register 1953 that the Government of the State of Espírito Santo is shown as owners of the
Itacoya of 180 tons built 1929 so I guess there is nothing wrong with
their having their own house flag. Presumably having a company to run it
was not considered necessary although having complete livery for such a
small setup is unusual. The vessel was disposed of by 1958.
Neale Rosanoski, 22 December 2002