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House Flags of Hong Kong Shipping Companies 4

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Ocean Base Co., Ltd.

[houseflag of Ocean Base Co., Ltd.] image by Jorge Candeias,


Ocean Tramping Company Ltd

[houseflag of Ocean Tramping Co Ltd] image by Ivan Sache

Yellow flag with a red T inside a red O in the middle.

Source: Josef Nüsse
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2002


Original flag noted as white with a blue ring or "O" enclosing a blue "T".
Neale Rosanoski, 23 January 2003


Original flag
[Ocean Tramping] image by Jarig Bakker, 23 December 2005
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World [lgr95]

White flag, blue circle, blue "T".
Jarig Bakker, 23 December 2005


Oriental Overseas Container Line Ltd

[Oriental Overseas Container Line]
image by Jarig Bakker, 25 January 2006
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World [lgr95]

[Oriental Overseas Container Line]
image by Ivan Sache

Yellow flag with a red flower with white stamens in the middle. The flower has five petals, five long stamens on hte median of each petal, and five groups of two shorter stamens each placed between the long stamens. all the stamens converge into a small central white disk.

The 1993 flag is yellow with OOCL in red in the middle. A flower is placed in the middle of the second O. The flower is similar to that described above but with a different axis and different colours: petals are yellow and stamens are red.

Source: Josef Nüsse
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2002


Correct name is Orient Overseas Container Line. Loughran 1979 shows the 1st flag with a white field but in Brown 1982 he shows the yellow version.
Neale Rosanoski, 23 January 2003


There are some political meanings in this flag, since the flower on this flag is a plum blossom, stylized in the RoC-TW style-- Plum blossom is the alternative emblem of RoC-TW. Historically, the founder of OOCL, C.Y.Tung (1912-1982), was heavily aligned with the Taiwanese cause. C.Y. Tung established the China Lines in 1935 and moved to Taipei in 1949, while the OOCL was established in Hong Kong a few years after that. Until mid-eighties both companies were held by the Tung family, first C.Y. Tung then to Chee-Hwa Tung (Yes, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, PRC -- surprised?). Chiang Kai-shek had seen them for a number of times, and he always regarded the OOCL THE shipping company of the Republic of China. The head of China Lines is, in fact, Chee-Hwa Tung's brother-in-law.

The OOCL shifted their preference towards the PRC side because the company was in crisis in the mid-eighties, the Taiwanese failed to give them any help, but it was the PRC (plus HSBC) which gave them enough help for them to pass it...

China Lines has officially merged into the OOCL, called OOCL Taiwan.
John Ma, 31 August 2002


Oriental Steamship

[Oriental Steamship] image by António Martins-Tuválkin , 11 December 2005

The new and rapidly expanding shipping company Orient Steamship is located in Hong Kong.

Founded by brothers John and Philip Koo in 2002, operating two bulk carriers and chartering another one plus a tanker.

The house flag is horizontally divided red above white, a large letter ‘K’ in the middle counterchanged. The initial obviously refers to the family name.

In fact the website’s ‘History’ section details the maritime activities of the Koo family (Tai Chong Cheang Steamship Co. in mainland China since the beginning of 20C, later Valles Steamship in Hong Kong, 1949).
Jan Mertens, 11 December 2005

(Ed: Valles is presently located in Canada)


The "K" letter is a serifed capital (typeface "Georgia"?)
António Martins-Tuválkin , 11 December 2005


Peninsular Shipping Co., Ltd.

[Peninsular Shipping] image by Jarig Bakker, 23 December 2005
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World [lgr95]

White flag, blue "PS".
Jarig Bakker, 23 December 2005


Prompt Shipping Corp., Ltd.

[Prompt Shipping Corp.] image by Jarig Bakker 16 November 2005
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World, 1995 [lgr95]

Five horizontal stripes White-Red-Blue-Red-White, proportioned c. 1:1:2:1:1.
Jarig Bakker, 16 November 2005


SeaUnion Shipping Co., Ltd.

[SeaUnion Shipping Co Ltd houseflag] image by Jorge Candeias