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House Flags of German Shipping Companies (l)

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F. Laeisz, Hamburg

image by Ivan Sache, 14 Jan 2004

Following the link found by Joe Mc Millan - The Mystic Seaport Foundation, we can reach the 1911 Lloyd's flagbook, whose full title is (after the scan of the cover): 'Lloyd's book of house flags and funnels of the principal steamship lines of the world and the house flags of various lines of sailing vessels', published at Lloyd's Royal Exchange. London. E.C.
On p. 133, we have: #2030. F. Laeisz, Hamburg. The flag is white with red letters F L. The company still exists.
Ivan Sache, 14 Jan 2004

F. Laeisz with stars

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 August 2008

Reederei F. Laeisz, Hamburg
Description of flag: It is a plain white flag with red serifed capitals “FL” in its centre. In the canton are 3 red 5-point stars in triangular constellation (one above two). The company today uses the flag without stars.
Source: I found an image of this flag on the website of J.Nüsse.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 August 2008

This page (in German) explains the stars as representing three branches of the firm: commerce, insurance, and shipping.
This company page shows the house flag bearing the stars.
Jan Mertens, 18 Aug 2008

Hermann R. Lassen

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Mar 2007

Hermann R.Lassen was an agent in the beginning but became corresponding owner of a ship of Rickmers in 1887. The Lassen company sold its last ship in 1907 and since then Lassen worked as ship-broker.This company exists still today having the name: "Lassen & Co. Reederei Agentur G.m.b.H.".
The shipping-company used a red flag with a white diamond touching the edges with a black serifed capital "L".
Source: Jürgen Meyer: "Hamburger Segelschiffe von 1795-1945"; ISBN 3-89225-400-1; Hamburg 1999; p.150ff.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Mar 2007

Walter Lauk

image sent by Jan Mertens, 1 Jul 2006

This is the Hamburg-based Walter Lauk companies. Here is the website, English version: Founded in 1982 and initially dedicated to in-harbour transport, the combined firms are now active in inland shipping, container trucking, agency services in four German harbours, and not related to transport, rather to the loads product control.

As related on the company site, Walter Lauk operates one tugboat and one pushboat plus nine open barges and eight covered ones in the various harbours plus thirty vessels (ten of which are under contract) on the inland waterways. In this last respect, agricultural products are a very important load which ties in with product control activities such as sampling, analysis, certifying, etc.

Link to an article (in German) about father and son Lauk, in a playful mood: They note, among other things, the need for in-harbour shipping to bypass the local traffic jams lorries get caught in.

Seen right away on the home page, the house flag is divided red-blue along a descending diagonal with large white serifless letters "W" on the lower red triangle, "L" on the upper blue one. Interestingly, attachment hardly shows the white dividing line clearly visible on the truck's side ("About us" section) and in the flag in front of the company seat, enlarged extract of photo. (Photo too dim for editing, ed.)

Again the white stripe in a drawing on this page: only this time the flag is enclosed in a blue border we have seen is not there in reality. Some photos on the internet show the tug "Jörg" with the white-stripe flag on the funnel. (No idea about the second flag in front of the company seat? is it the container division?).
Jan Mertens, 1 Jul 2006

LEA Shipping

image by Ivan Sache, 7 Jul 2005

Here is another house flag: quarterly per saltire, left and right triangles white, upper and lower ones blue; in the middle, a white blue-rimmed oval containing red letters ‘LEA’.
‘Lea Shipping’ (or “Lea Schiffahrtsges, Hamburg”) in the page title actually refers to the ‘Leo Adams’ shipping company, Hamburg.
On the other hand, ‘Lea Schiffahrts GmbH’ and ‘Leo Adams Reederei’ were perhaps two distinct, but related, companies?
Jan Mertens, 5 Jul 2005

Leda Schiffahrt

image by Jarig Bakker, 16 Oct 2005

Leda Schiffahrt, Leer - white, a shield with the East-Frisian colors between black "LS".
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 16 Oct 2005

Reederei Lehmann

image by Jarig Bakker, 3 Jan 2006

Reederei Lehmann G.m.b.H., Lübeck - white flag, blue circle, red two-towered castle.
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

Leonhardt & Blumberg

image by Jorge Candeias, 22 Dec 2004

The flag is white with a narrow red saltire under a black cross with the same thickness and a white square occupying the intersection (would have been hollowing it if instead of white appeared the red intersection of the saltire's arms). German national colours, a striking and if not unique at least rare design, great stuff. But the caption is very hard to read. The same thing happens whenever it includes lots of letters. Guessing more than reading, I came up with two surnames: Leinhardt & Blumberg.
Jorge Candeias, 22 Dec 2004

Leonhardt & Blumberg, Hamburg.
Jarig Bakker, 22 Dec 2004

Libra

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 May 2007

Libra: It's a blue flag with a white "L" in its centre. The angle between both bars is 66 2/3^o.
The company seems to be part of the Chilean company CSAV. This is also valid for Norasia, which uses the same logo as CSAV.
Source: Image spotted at companies doorplate at Hamburg Herrengraben 3 on 16 March 2007.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 May 2007

Lübeck Linie

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 June 2007

Lübeck Linie - The company was located in Lübeck.
Description of flag: It is a white flag with two horizontal red stripes. At the hoist both stripes have double width. So the stripes are forming some kind of "LL".
Source: Arnold KLUDAS: Die Geschichte der deutschen Passagierschiffahrt (5 Bde.), Hamburg 1986; Reprint Laibach Slovenia-Buch Nr. 03617-8; flagchart p.224.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 June 2007