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image by Ivan Sache, 27 November 2003
The company was founded in Marstal by Jan Fabricius in 1984. It operates 22 cargo, reefer and container ships and one tug. The flag is white with two thin light blue stripes on the top and bottom and the light blue monogram of the company in the middle. This monogram is made of the interlaced geometrized letters J and F. Company website: http://www.fabricius-shipping.dk/
Ivan Sache, 27 November 2003
image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000
based on Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963
image by Ivan Sache, based on Joseph Nüsse website
Light green flag with a blue ring encompassing a blue four-pointed star on
which is placed a green square with a blue border and the blue letters RS in the
middle.
Ivan Sache, 16 November 2002
Rohde Nielsen AS (Copenhagen, Denmark) - Blue with white company logo
(RN and wavy line) - see flag at headquarters.
http://www.rohde-nielsen.dk/rohdeeng/cprofile.htm
Dov Gutterman, 17 October 2003
image by Jarig Bakker, 29 November 2005
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of the United Steamship Co., Copenhagen. A
rectangular blue flag with a white cross formy pattée. The flag is made of a
wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn."
Brown (1951) has: Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab,
København.
Jarig Bakker, 2 September 2004
DFDS Scandinavian Seaways (Passenger Vessels), Copenhagen - blue flag, white
cross formy.
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 29 November 2005
Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S. More precisely Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S which led to the current name of DFDS A/S being adopted in 1970.
The flag is a dark blue and apparently still applies although another flag appears on the Josef Nüsse site of white with the white cross paty appearing on a blue circle in the hoist accosted with the red legend of "DFDS" over "SEAWAYS" and the flag base consisting of a biband of light over dark blue which would refer either to the DFDS Seaways Service instituted in 1971 or possibly the subsidiary DFDS Seaways A/S formed in 2000. It is in line with the vessel colour scheme but may not have been actually used at sea.
A similar flag, but with the cross appearing within a white ring on a blue angled panel and the legend being blue and "DFDS" over "TOR LINE" shows on the company site for DFDS Tor Line A/S which was formed in 1998.
Again on the Nüsse site such a flag shows, but without the "DFDS"
reference, and this appears to relate to the fact that the company was
originally Tor Line A/B of Sweden [though is now based in Norway] formed in 1966
with a white flag bearing a black and white target emblem above 2 blue wavy
lines of sea, the Nüsse flag presumably adopted
after the company was acquired at some point by DFDS and the website version
adopted after the 1999 name change to DFDS Tor Line A/S. (It is now somewhat
difficult to allocate such groups to one specific country without losing the
thread).
Neale Rosanoski, 27 April 2004
Scandlines operates ferries in the south Baltic sea; I don't know if it is
based in only one country, or in all three (or even more) countries of Sweden,
Germany, Denmark. The biggest ferry seems to be from Putgarten, on Fehmarn in
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, to Rødby, on Lolland island in
Denmark (and back of course), taking about 50 minutes. Also the ferry from Heldingør in Denmark to Helsingborg in Zweden is run by Scandlines. More
information can be found on the Danish homepage of the company
http://www.scandlines.dk/DKFront/Front_DK where I also got the logo. The
flag is a white field with the company logo in the center.
Jarig Bakker, 3 August 2003
image by Ivan Sache, based on Joseph Nüsse website
White flag with a red three-bladed propeller in the middle.
Ivan Sache, 16 November 2002
A white flag, three blue wavy bars.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels (Wedge 1926)
Jarig Bakker, 19 December 2004
The current incarnation of the SFDS appears only to exist to operate the M/S
Helge, which flies Red, a White double-bladed axe with details in Blue. I
don't know what happened to the original SFDS, but the building of the
SFDS (still showing the Axe above the door) is hired by the unrelated shipping
company T&C Thor Chartering A/S.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 August 2001
image
by Jarig Bakker, 21 October 2005
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Skou International A/S, Copenhagen - blue flag, white "S".
Jarig Bakker, 21 October 2005
A red flag, white blue swallowtail, white shield with red saltire cross, over all stylized blue "A". Same type of "A" was
used by the Danish Asiatic Company after 1802.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels (Wedge 1926)
Jarig Bakker, 19 December 2004
Svendsen & Christensen. Dated from 1898 with Lloyds 1904 showing a narrow
swallow-tailed long pennant and the normal swallow-tailed version by 1912. At
some stage prior to WW2 [my earliest mention is for 1939] they began trading
through A/S D/S Vendila and post WW2 this is [basically as they vary the title]
the name listed in Lloyds with the flag being shown also under this name by
Brown 1958 and Stewart 1963. By 1963 the fleet was no longer and Vendila was
acquired by Dannebrog Rederei A/S and presumably traded in their colours until
being merged into the associate Weco-Shipping I/S in 1972.
Neale Rosanoski, 29 January 2005
Svenson & Jesperson, Copenhagen - red flag, divided per white hoist diagonal;
at hoist top and fly bottom white 5-pointed star
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels (Wedge 1926)
Jarig Bakker, 20 January 2005
Svenson & Jesperson. Correct name as shown by Brown (Wedge 1926),
supported by Lloyds (1911), was Suenson &
Jespersen. Lloyds dates them at least 1916 and operating still in 1937. Brown
1929 shows the livery in a change to the name of M.N. Suenson but this may not
be correct.
Neale Rosanoski, 10 February 2005
image
by Jarig Bakker, 21 October 2005
Source:
Loughran (1995)
The company is the Scandinavian branch of the Svitzer-Wijsmuller group, founded
in August 2001 by the merging of Svitzer (Denmark) and Wijsmuller Bros (Baarn,
The Netherlands). The group is itself part of the A.P. Moller (Maersk) group. It
operates today the most powerful tug fleet in the world. Svitzer was founded in
1833 and owns today the towage and salvage companies Roda Bolaget (Sweden) and
Esvagt A/S (Denmark). Wijsmuller was founded in 1906 as Wijsmuller Bureau. Company website:
http://www.svitzerwijsmuller.com/
Ivan Sache, 27 November 2003
A/S Em. Z. Svitzer (Brondby). The flag is
white and the cross blue (as per
the website
for a shot of the actual).
Neale Rosanoski, 11 September 2001
A poster from 1950 showing its wide ferry network shows the flag to be Red
with a Yellow two-bladed axe.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 August 2001