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image by Joseph McMillan
The name means Salt and Navigation Enterprise. The flag was white with a red band from upper hoist
to lower fly bearing the initials of the firm in white.
Source: 1909 supplement to German Navy Flaggenbuch (1905)
Joseph McMillan, 11 February 2003
image by Jorge Candeias
The first part of the name means something akin to "Saline Enterprise of Fluvial Navigation,"
where saline means exploitation of salt. Delbão Rodrigues is
a personal name. The flag is white with two dark blue triangles in top hoist and
bottom hoist, touching each other and going up to half the length, and with
a red cross of the Order of Christ vertically centered and shifted to the hoist. A great flag.
Source: Chart of house flags
circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 2 June 2002
image by Jorge Candeias
The flag is quartered per saltire in white and red, with black letters N, E, S and A occupying the
quarters.
Source: Chart of house flags
circa 1950 at
www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 2 June 2002
I would read the letters as ENSA, Empresa de Navegação de Santo Antônio.
Ivan Sache, 3 June 2002
image by Joseph
McMillan
Source: Josef Nuesse's website Reedereiflaggen: House Flags of Shipping Companies.
SCANBRAS, evidently a joint venture among Lloyd Brasileiro, Aliança,
and Transroll. Nuesse shows two other variants of this flag, one
with SCAN and BRAS in black and the other with the letters L and A in black
in place of the SCAN and BRAS logos.
Joseph McMillan, 17 June 2001
image by Jorge Candeias
Hans Semper is a name, though not a Portuguese one. German, perhaps? Anyway, the flag has nothing to do with the name, and is just a red star on a white field. Might be coincidental, but these are the major colours of the flag of Amazonas.
Source: Chart of house flags circa 1950 at www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br