^{This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website}

House Flags of German Shipping Companies (f)

Other "F" companies:

See also:

Fairplay Tugs

image by Jorge Candeias, 20 Feb 1999

Fairplay Tugs or Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffs-Reederei GmbH - White with a centred device consisting of a large red four-pointed star charged with a smaller blue 4-pointed star, rotated 45 degrees relative to the larger one.
Jorge Candeias, 20 Feb 1999

This is interestingly similar to the houseflags of Borchard Lines Ltd. and Lucy Borchard Shipping Ltd.. Any idea of the reason for such similarity? Were these three once the same company?
António Martins, 18 Sep 2001

See for a similar star this website. Founded by harbour worker Carl Tiedemann in 1879, a service and towing company, Hamburg. In 1895, a towboat called 'Fairplay' takes up service and two years later, Richard Borchardt joins the firm. In 1900 the firm is called 'Stauerei und Bugsiererei Carl Tiedemann' (Stevedoring and Towing Company CT), later renamed 'Fairplay Steam Tug Office'. Surviving two world wars and considerable technological changes, the firm still exists as a major player in the maritime services business, logistics etc.
Familiar names crop up here, for Fairplay itself see here, with its own star. Richard Borchardt founded F. in 1905, took over BBB, Rostock and also URS (Antwerp) together with Smit International, this year.
Jan Mertens, 13 May 2004

Fairplay Tugs - (Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffs-Reederei GmbH). The full name of the company is Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffsreederei Richard Borchard and the following history has been gleaned from "Hamburg Tugs" by Michael Dollenbacher and Reinhard H. Schnake: "Originated from the tug company Pauls & Blohm formed 1877 which merged 25.11.1905 with Carl Tiedemann as Schleppdampfschiffsrhederei Carl Tiedemann und Pauls & Blohm with Richard Borchard, who had joined Carl Tiedemann in 1897, becoming a partner then in 1924 he bought out the others and in 1926 renamed the company Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffsreederei Richard Borchard, succeeded on his death as owner and manager 12 Jan 1930 by wife Lucy, then 8/1938 ownership was transferred to a trust due to laws prohibiting Jews from owing businesses with the Borchards shifting to London where they established Fairplay Towage Co. Ltd., the original company being returned to Lucy Borchard and son Kurt in 1949 with in 1950 Fairplay Towage Co. Ltd. being dissolved, Lucy dying 4 Feb 1969 succeeded by son Kurt". There is thus a connection with the various Borchard companies and explains the use of the family emblem by Borchard Lines Ltd. and Lucy Borchard Shipping Ltd.
Neale Rosanoski, 18 Oct 2004

Feldmühle

image by Eugene Ipavec, 24 Mar 2008

Feldmühle is the firm which took over the Koholyt shipping company in 1930. Feldmühle is a very well-known name in paper production, see this webpage and following pages.

What I had not seen right away was the company’s very own house flag, also shown in the 1928 Flaggenbuch, part II, no. 424 (page 42/99).
National colours of that period i.e. black-white-red: quarterly divided black (top, bottom) and white (left, right); a large white disk in the centre - enclosed by a red rim - bearing a black letter ‘F’ (no serifs).
Caption: Feldmühle, Papier- und Zellstoffwerke Aktiengesellschaft (i.e. Feldmühle, Paper and Cellulose Factories Co. Ltd), Stettin.
For the moment I do not know when shipping activities started nor when they were stopped.
Jan Mertens, 23 Mar 2008

F.W. Fischer

image by Jarig Bakker, 23 Feb 2005

F.W. Fischer, Rostock - blue flag; in center yellow 5-pointed star; in corners yellow "FWFR".
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 23 Feb 2005

Fisser & Doornum

image by Jarig Bakker, 27 Sep 2005

Fisser & Doornum, Hamburg - green flag, white diamond, red circle containing three more or less upward pointing arrows, all red.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 27 Sep 2005

Flechsig Shipping and PragerShip

image by Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Dov Gutterman spotted the link of Flechsig Shipping and PragerShip: flag: horizontal blue - white - blue, proportiones 1:2:2; in center red "FP", fimbriated pink.
Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Flensburger D.G. 1869

image sent by Jan Mertens, 24 Sep 2006

Difficult to decipher as the original image is – the local shipping museum in Flensburg confirmed the design ('Flensburger Dampfschiffahrt Gesellschaft' or Flensburg Steam Shipping Co.)– what we really needed was an image such as the above.
Still on offer at Beste Auktion (German auction site), it has a page of its own: identifying it as belonging to ‘Lloyd Reedereiflaggen der Welthandelsflotte’ (i.e. Lloyd shipping company flags of the world’s merchant fleet) published by Brinkmann’s cigarette factory, Bremen, in 1932 (album).

A similar image (same source) is found here, belonging to ‘Flaggen ,die über Meere Völker verbinden’ (i.e. Flags linking peoples across the seas) published by Massary’s cigarette factory, Berlin, in 1930 (album).

So the house flag is white with black initials FDG and the year 1869 in the corners, the Flensburg city arms – with mural crown – in the centre. In the image found by Jorge the initials and year were put right into the flag’s corners and so did Lloyds 1912. After WWI – if we may believe the later images – these were more evenly distributed.
Jan Mertens, 24 Sep 2006

Flensburger Fischereiverein von 1872

The house flag of the shipping company Flensburger Fischereiverein von 1872 is blue, ca. 1/7 yellow at the hoist(?) and ca. 1/3 yellow circle with 3 abstract blue fish swimming flyward.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 Aug 2001

Flensburger Schiffbaugesellschaft

image by Jorge Candeias

Flensburger Schiffbaugesellschaft mbH & Co. KG: A blue flag with a thin yellow saltire, centred on it a large yellow disc bearing the blue letters F (top) and SG (bottom); a hoist stripe, vertically striped blue-white-red.
Santiago Dotor, 10 May 2005

Flensburg Stettiner Dampfer Linie

image by Jorge Candeias, 6 May 2004

This time, the flag is blue with a red cross pattée. The caption seems to read something in the lines of "Reuse Sirt Dampf Ge.", but this includes, again, a huge dose of imagination.
Jorge Candeias, 6 May 2004

That is probably "Flensburg Stettiner Dampfer Linie", of Otto Weide, Flensburg.
Jarig Bakker, 6 May 2004

Forde Reederei

image by Jarig Bakker, 3 Jan 2006

Forde Reederei G.m.b.H., Flensburg - blue flag, yellow standing anchor.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 3 Jan 2006

Reedereigruppe Freese

image by Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Dov Gutterman spotted the link of Reedereigruppe Freese: flag: blue; in center turned, left bottom white "H", top right white "F". That is: Heinz Freese, Drochtersen.
Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Frigga A.G.

image by Jarig Bakker, 28 Jan 2005

"Frigga" A.G., Hamburg - blue flag, white shortened saltire; white disk, red "F".
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 28 Jan 2005

Herhard Frommann und Söhne

image by Jorge Candeias, 13 Mar 1999

Reederei Herhard Frommann und Söhne GBR: Light blue with a white cross throughout fimbriated black. A white square lozenge fimbriated black in the center of the cross with the letter 'F' in black.
Jorge Candeias, 13 Mar 1999