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![[AFEA Line]](../images/h/hk~afea.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker 16 November 2005Blue flag, intertwined red "AF".
Jarig Bakker, 16 November 2005
![[Associated Bulk Containers]](../images/h/hk~angle.gif)
image by Ivan Sache
Blue flag with a white symbol in the middle. The symbol is basically made of a white ring divided by a white cross. Parts of the ring are omitted.
Source: Josef Nüsse
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2002
This is indeed an accurate description, but I'm sure that this symbol is
meant to be a stylized "Ć", for "AE", the initials of the company name.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 May 2006
![[Associated Bulk Containers]](../images/h/hk~abc.gif)
image by Ivan Sache
Blue flag with a vertical red rectangle in the middle and the letters A B C placed horizontally in the middle, B being in the red rectangle.
Source: Josef Nüsse
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2002
My impression of the flag in Josef's site is that the blue is darker. The
company is a P&O subsidiary so that a shade of royal blue seems likely.
Neale Rosanoski, 23 January 2003
![[Ben Line Agencies flag]](../images/h/hk~bla.gif)
image by Jorge Candeias
White with a thick red border and a black anchor.
Jorge Candeias,, 27 March 2001
The flag is that of the British company William Thomson & Co. who date
from 1820 and operated mainly through Ben Line Steamers Ltd. with fleet names
usually starting with "Ben". The current operations are under Ben
Line Group Ltd., still based in Edinburgh. The anchor is dark blue although
the origin of this image comes apparently from the Hong Kong agency company
formed in 1987 and their website shows it as black, I would think probably in
error. Griffin 1895 shows a black foul anchor which would seem incorrect on
two counts. A variation was used by Ben Line Containers Ltd. who were formed
in 1972 as a joint venture with Ellermans, the anchor being replaced by a
black arrow bent into 3 sides (like the ACT design] with that to fly being
empty and within this the black letters "BLC". Ellermans were later
bought out and presumably the company was absorbed back into the group.
Neale Rosanoski, 23 January 2003
![[Blairdale Shipping]](../images/h/hk~bs.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker 16 November 2005White over green; in center red shield charged with
white "B".
Jarig Bakker, 16 November 2005
By 1980 Lloyds was showing the Hong Kong company of
China Merchants Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., initially with vessels being
operated by COSCO. Later in the 1980s
Hong Kong Ming Wah Shipping Co.
Ltd. appears and this probably explains the CMSNC omission in the
first half of the 1990s in Lloyds Shipowners but they do appear still
in Lloyds Shipowning Groups as a subsidiary of China Merchants
Holdings Co. Ltd. and operating the fleet through subsidiaries Hong
Kong Ming Wah, Huawei Offshore Shipping Transport Co. Ltd. etc. all of
which appear to have their own liveries.
Neale Rosanoski, 9 August 2007
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![[Douglas Steamship houseflag]](../images/h/hk~dougl.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship
Companies, 1926 [wed26]
Hong Kong - white flag, red Maltese Cross, charged with a blue square.
Jarig Bakker, 3 February 2005
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 January 2007
Source: Beschulte.de (archived website
This logo is a green disc illuminated from the top hoist
simulating a three dimensional sphere with three red inter-parallel shells
over the hoist-side half of the northern hemisphere
António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 January 2007
![[Fairmont Shipping Ltd.]](../images/h/hk~fairs.gif)
image by Ivan Sache
White flag with a red arrow-shaped symbol in the middle.
Source: Josef Nüsse
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2002