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[Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei] image by Eugene Ipavec, 11 Aug 2008 See also:

Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei

Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei Föhr-Amrum GmbH.
Description of flag #1: It is a black over white over red horizontal tricolour. Within the white stripe are black, dotted, unserifed capitals “W.D.R.”
Source: I saw an image of this flag in Hamburg March 2008 in a Cigarette-Album about  Llloyds Flags. The source is dated probably in the 1930's.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Aug 2008

Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei - variant

[Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei - variant] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Aug 2008

Description of flag #2: It is a black over white over red horizontal tricolour. Within the white stripe are black, dotted, unserifed capitals “W.D.R.”. The canton is a yellow over red over blue horizontal tricolour.
The tricolour is the same as German merchant flag before WWI. The canton however shows a East Frisian tricolour. I believe, that the canton was added not earlier than 1945 but I don’t know exactly.
Source: Time-table of the company.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Aug 2008