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Gribel (German Shipping Company)

Rud. Christ. Gribel, Stettin

image by Jorge Candeias, 5 Dec 2004

Rud. Christ. Gribel
Rud. Christ. Gribel variant

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Rud. Christ. Gribel

The flag consists of a vertical blue and white bicolour, charged with large white capitals, fimbriated in black: "R.C.G." But I can't read anything in the caption.
Jorge Candeias, 5 Dec 2004

That's Rud. Christ. Gribel, Lübeck. Wolter's See und Seefahrt, 1968, has a flag vertical blue-white with sans serifed countercharged letters.
Jarig Bakker, 5 Dec 2004

Rud. Christ. Gribel variant

image by Jorge Candeias, 5 Dec 2004

Recently, in presenting the ‘Seedienst Ostpreussen’ house flag, one of its founding members i.e. the Gribel company, was mentioned. This firm was based at Stettin, now Szczecin. A link to a poster proposing winter sailings to Reval (now Tallinn) and Helsingfors (Helsinki).
The house flag is vertically divided blue-white and bears the counterchanged letters RCG. It is also shown as No. 748 in the on-line 1912 Lloyds Flags & Funnels: i.e. ‘Rud. Christ. Gribel, Stettin’ but adds a dot after each letter (‘RCG’ stands for Rudolf Christian Gribel).
See this page (click advertisement in upper right corner) for an impressive list of destinations (1910). We learn that the firm was established in 1773. As to the firm's history, I have found very little. On the web there are accounts of vessels commandeered to serve as hospital ships at the end of WWII but I was unable to determine when Gribel stopped, or had to stop, its activities.
Jan Mertens, 19 Jun 2005