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image by Jorge Candeias
The surname is Portuguese (and means "milk"). The flag is a blue-white-blue horizontal triband, with a
white disc in the center, fimbriated red, containing a red 5-pointed star
and a letter in each of the spaces between the points of the star,
composing the whole acronym (JAL&C). This flag is probably influenced by the
flag of Amazonas: same colors, same overall structure, and a star.
Source: Chart of house flags
circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 30 June 2002
image by Jorge Candeias
The flag is a dark blue saltire on white, and the initials (BL&C) are distributed through the
quadrants formed by the saltire. It's eventually another coincidence, but
Levi is a common Jewish surname, and the flag has the Israeli colors.
Source: Chart of house flags
circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 30 June 2002
image by Joseph
McMillan
The flag of Companhia Libra de Navegação (originally Linhas Brasileiras,
whence the acronym Libra) as shown on the company website, is white
with a cross formed of four mirrored letters "L", the
one in upper fly red and the others blue.
Joseph McMillan, 15 June 2001
image by Jorge Candeias
The flag is vertically divided in yellow and white, the yellow smaller than the white
(though not much and, at least in the source image, not using a common
ratio) with a dark blue star centered where the panels meet. This star is
probably related with the star in the flag of Pará.
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 two vessels totaling about 600 tons.
Joseph McMillan, 28 October 2002
image by Ivan Sache
Znamierowski shows on page 244 a plate of house flags of North and South American shipping companies, dated 1933. The original source is Lloyd Reederei-Flaggen der Welt-Handelsflotte [Lloyd Houseflags of the World Merchant Fleet], (1933):
#373. Cia. de Nav. Lloyd Brazileiro - Rio de JaneiroIvan Sache, 24 March 2001
Cruzeiro flag with the central star larger. Canton divided per saltire white-red-white-red with L and B (in blue) in the first and third (white) quarters, respectively.]
Shipping lines: Brazil - North America, Europe
Cargo and passenger steamboats: 66; Cargo and passenger sailboat: 1; Motor cargos: 4
Tonnage: ca 266,080 gross registered tons
Founded 1890, reorganized 1921, nationalized 1938-
39. Served all of South America plus US, Spain, Portugal, and
elsewhere in Europe. Source: E. C. Talbot-Booth, Merchant Ships 1949-1950.
Joseph McMillan, 29 October 2002
Presidential order (medida provisória) 1592-5, issued on 5 March 1998,
ordered the dissolution of this state-owned company, so I would imagine
it is no longer in business and the flag is no longer in use.
Joseph McMillan, 15 June 2001
All the standard references on house flags from 1951 onward show this flag with the center
star the same size as all the others. Brown's Flags and
Funnels 1926 shows it as in Ivan's image.
Joseph McMillan, 29 June 2001
It appears that all pre-World War II sources show the central star larger, i.e.
Lloyds 1904 and 1912, Brown's Flags and
Funnels 1926 and 1929, and Talbot-Booth 1936.
Znamierowski's source of
Lloyd Reedereiflaggen der Welthandelsflotte
I find is basically derived from Brown 1929. Brown 1943 shows all stars of equal size but
reverses the canton colours from red-white to
white-red with white letters then appearing on the red sectors. Of the post World War II sources,
Stewart 1st edition (1953-1957) shows
black letters, which is probably confusion over the dark blue actual letters, but
more interestingly it is the only book source
to show the 21 star cross to have equal arms, i.e. 10 stars in each vertical and
horizontal arm plus the center star, with all other sources showing eight
in the vertical arms and 12 in the horizontal, plus the center star.
This format cannot be written off, as the flag appearing in the
Josef Nüsse collection shows
this arrangement but with the usual blue letters.
Neale Rosanoski, 22 December 2002
image by Jarig Bakker, 20 February 2006
Lloyd - Libra Navegação S.A., Rio de Janeiro - yellow flag, red and blue
italic "L".
Source:
Loughran (1979)
Jarig Bakker, 20 February 2006
image by Ivan
Sache
Also from Znamierowski's reprint of the chart in Lloyd Reederei-Flaggen der Welt-Handelsflotte (1933):
#374. Lloyd Nacional Soc. Anon. - Rio de JaneiroIvan Sache, 24 March 2001
[Green flag with a yellow saltire. A white disk in the middle with "LN" in red.]
Shipping lines: Brazil - North America
Steam cargos: 9; Steam tanker: 1; Cargo and passenger motorboats: 4
Tonnage: ca 41,200 gross registered tons
Founded 1916 as a subsidiary of Costeira, then
merged with it 1942, according to E. C. Talbot-Booth, Merchant Ships 1949-1950.
Joseph McMillan, 29 October 2002