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Historical houseflags:
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The modern period, i.e. after 1990 - In this epriod some
companies drastically changed their flags, other only slightly
adjusted the ideological symbols white the third retained them
alltogther. Entirely new companies emerged as well.
Željko Heimer, 22 November 2004
image by Željko Heimer, 16 June 2001
Atlantska plovidba d.d. Dubrovnik - Sucessor to the 1880
company Dubrovacka plovidba, the company since 1955 uses the
present name, and virtually the same flag: red over blue with
white anchor between company initials.
See also: Houseflags
(1945-1990).
Željko Heimer, 22 November 2004
image by Željko Heimer, 22 November 2004
Mediteranska plovidba d.d., Korcula - The flag is red with
blue bordered white lozenge containing golden company initials.
The company was established 1955 as Korculansko-pelješka
plovidba. Specialized in refrigerated freight in the
international navigation but also tourist and cargo coastal
shipping. In 1986 owned 9 ships. Since early 1990's uses the flag
above. Before that the flag was similar with the white lozenge
containing a red star instead of the initials.
Sources: Josef Nüsse: Ships and Flags.
Vladimir Isaic: Pomorski obicaji i tradicije, Adamic, Rijeka,
2001. My observation and photos of ships on Adriatic, summer
2004.
Željko Heimer, 22 November 2004
image by Željko Heimer, 15 June 2001
After 1990 the star was dropped and in its stead were set
tricolour initials of the company LP. Both flags apear to be in
ratio 3:5~.
Željko Heimer, 15 June 2001
Lošninjska plovidba d.d., Mali Lošinj - The flag is
blue with two white thin horizontal stripes in the middle and
white disk with tricolour company initials. The company for
international and coastal transport was established in 1956
included beside shipping also shipbuilding and tourism. In 1986
maintained fleet of 21 merchant ships (including 5 ro-ro ships).
In 1962 integraded the company Kvarner (est. 1954). In early
1990's replaced the star with the company initials.
Sources: Josef Nüsse: Ships and Flags.
Vladimir Isaic: Pomorski obicaji i tradicije, Adamic, Rijeka,
2001. Pomorski leksikon, Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod
"Miroslav Krleža", Zagreb, 1990.
See also: Houseflags
(1945-1990).
Željko Heimer, 22 November 2004
image by Željko Heimer, 15 June 2001
Jugoslavenska linijska plovidba
changed name in 1992 (says Josef Nüsse: Ships and Flags,
I think it must have been before) to Croatia Line and adopted a
logo-like flag - white with blue slanted rectangle with white
stylized ship (maybe a lymphad or galley would be best heraldical
term, if any). First flag seems to be 1:2, while the modern
version is close to 3:5~.
Željko Heimer, 15 June 2001
The date of 1992 as the name change is also given by Lloyds
who also give this date as the change of the country name from
Yugoslavia.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 January 2004
The 2nd flag for Croatia Line appears to have a short career
as Lloyds give the company as being in financial difficulties in
late 1999 and they do not appear to have survived.
Neale Rosanoski, 10 November 2004
Croatia Line d.d., Rijeka - The flag is white with squewed
blue field with white stylized sailing ship. Until 1992 the
company was known as Jugolinija (or Jugoslavenska
linijska plovidba) established in 1947 and used entirely
different flag.
Sources: Josef Nüsse: Ships and Flags.
Vladimir Isaic: Pomorski obicaji i tradicije, Adamic, Rijeka,
2001.
Željko Heimer, 22 November 2004
Variant (?)
image by Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2006
Brown 1995 shows a slightly different
version.
Neale Rosanoski, 10 November 2004
Croatia Line, Rijeka; on white a wide blue fly-diagonal,
charged with a white ancient sailing ship.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies
of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2006
image by Željko Heimer, 22 November 2004
It seems that all those companies had some
"shorthand" name for informal use beside the official
long name, and this one probably used name Jadrolinija (unless it
was Jadroplov and the modern company of this name above is the
sucessor). Today there is a very vivid shipping company situated
in Rijeka named Jadrolinija. The flag I saw hoisted at the
company headquarter in the center of Rijeka, as well as on
several ships in harbour in summer 1999: White flag with the
company emblem in the middle consisting of red vertical lines
forming a lozenge-like shape and blue initial J, and in hoist
upper corner a red bend and a blue bend in lower fly corner.
Ratio 2:3~.
Željko Heimer, 16 June 2001
The 2nd flag is presumably the one adopted upon becoming
Croatian. Brown 1995 shows a version in the name of their
subsidiary Jadrolinija Cruises Ltd. with the diamond being shown
as wholly red but this can be put down to the impossiblilty of
showing the design of 19 red and white vertical stripes in small
images.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 January 2004
The house flag of Jadrolinija is white banner with the company
emblem in the middle consisting of red vertical lines forming a
lozenge-like shape and blue initial J, and in hoist upper corner
a red bend and blue bend in lower fly corner. Until 1990's used different flag with five-pointed
star. The company was known also as Adriatic Line and Javno
Poduzece "Jadrolinja" P.O. It was established in 1947
after nationalization of the company Jadranska plovidba of
Sušak. In 1996 organized as an action society, in the 2001
operating 48 ships and over 1500 employees.
Source: Author's observation on company headquarters in
Rijeka, 1999 Vladimir Isaic: Pomorski obicaji i tradicije,
Adamic, Rijeka, 2001.
Željko Heimer, 22 November 2004
image by Željko Heimer, 4 November 2003
Vodomar d.o.o. - The companywas established in 2001
headquartered in Rijeka. The flag is blue with a yellow lozenge
containing a blue leter V.
"Vodomar" is the Croatian name of a bird known in
English as kingfisher, tough I would say hat the name was
established as combiation od the prefix "vodo" - having
to do with water and sufix "mar" as in
"maritime". At least, certainly there is intentional
assocation to this words.
Source: <www.vodomar.com>,
located by Dov Gutterman.
Željko Heimer, 4 November 2003
image by Željko Heimer, 8 January 2004
Brodospas d.d., Split - The flag is blue-white-blue triband
with withe disk overall containing red annulet with dark blue
link rings. Brodospas was founded in 1947 with task to clear
Croatian ports, shipyards and sailing routes of numerus
navigational obstacles from the World War II. The company
continued with tasks of the maritime search and rescue with her a
fleet of specialised ships also after the privatisation in early
1990's. Neal Rosanoski pointed me to the company site
where the emblem is shown with the central charge being black.
The flag is not shown, but probably the flag also follows this.
Source: Vladimir Isaic: Pomorski obicaji i tradicije,
Adamic, Rijeka, 2001.
Željko Heimer, 22 November 2004
Neale Rosanoski pointed me toward the web site of the shipping
company at <www.brodospas.net>.
We previously show their flag with the links in the emblem as
dark blue, white the site show them as black. In my source (Isaic
2001 [isa01]) the colour is indeed
very dark blue, but it may be only the printing matter.
Željko Heimer, 8 January 2004
image by Željko Heimer, 16 June 2001
Yellow flag with blue emblem. It is hard to say is this is a
vertical hoisting flag (e.g. a table flag) or if the actual flags
used is higher then long. It may even be that the scan is
"wrongly" turned, as maybe the spiral part of the
emblem might suggest the letter J.
Željko Heimer, 16 June 2001
Josef's collection of table flags normally equate to the
actual houseflags but sometimes there are variances [usually the
addition of wording] and this would appear to be one such. Brown
1995 show a normal rectangular version as the houseflag.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 January 2004
Jadroplov, Split (Jadroplov International Maritime Transport,
Split) - The flag is yellow with blue emblem in the middle. The
flag is apparently higher then long, though some sources show it
in the traditional horizontal layout. (It seems that this
vertical flag is also hoisted along the shorter side as if it was
the usual normal. Until 1990's the company was named Jadranska Slobodna Plovidba and
used black flag with star in white lozenge. The company was
established in 1947 in Rijeka, and the seat was moved to Split in
1956. In 1962 included also the Split company Opca plovidba. It
specialises in cargo transport.
Sources: Josef Nüsse: Ships and Flags.
Vladimir Isaic: Pomorski obicaji i tradicije, Adamic, Rijeka,
2001.
Željko Heimer, 22 November 2004
Variant (?)
image by Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2006
Jadroplov, Split - yellow flag, blue curl over a wave.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies
of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2006
image by Željko Heimer, 27 June 2008
In the Croatian maritime museum in Split, that I visited in
2005, I have been kindly shown by custodian Mrs. Tudor several
flags from the museum depot. One was quite recent aquirement to
the Museum. The flag of the shipping company Splitska plovidba
d.d. from Split. It is a white rectangular flag with
two thin horizontal stripes running along the middle of it, the
ower one being pale blue and the upper one dark blue. The upper
stripe forms a "wave", a circular protrusion next to
the hoist encircling two red squares. The flag was sized
approximately 30×60 cm.
At the same time, the Museum also had a table flag, of similar
design, triangual, however, with some differences - the
"lower" stripe is here silver (gray), the
"curl" is separated from the rest of the stripe running
from the fly to the hoist (similarly as it is divided from
"entering" back into the stripe), and along the top
(the bas of the triangle) it includes an italic dark blue
inscription SPLITSKA PLOVIDBA d.d. fibriated white where it
crosses the stripes.
am not sure in which relation this company is with the one similarly named during the
socilaist period that used a blue flag with red star within a
white ring...
Željko Heimer, 27 June 2008
image by Željko Heimer, 22 November 2004
Blue flag with white stylized letter S (with hatchek).
Željko Heimer, 16 June 2001
This company appears to have ceased by 2000.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 January 2004
Slobodna plovidba d.d., Šibenik - The flag is blue with
white stylized letter Š (sh), initial leter of the name of
the city of Sibenik. This company appears to have ceased by 2000.
Sources: Josef Nüsse: Ships and Flags,
Vladimir Isaic: Pomorski obicaji i tradicije, Adamic, Rijeka,
2001.
Željko Heimer, 22 November 2004
image by Jorge Candeias, 16 March 1999
Swallowtail vertically divided in a plain white filed in the
hoist side charged with some saint riding a horse and with a
spear, all in light blue and a horizontally striped field in the
fly with red-white-light blue stripes from top to bottom. Sorry
for the poor riding saint, but that was the best I could do from
the original drawing in <www.seanet.co.uk>
which was located by Dov Gutterman on 26 Febuary 1999.
Jorge Candeias, 16 March 1999
Tankerska Plovidba is situated in Zadar, and if that is so the
saint is most probably St. Grisogono (St. Krs<evan in
Croatian), the patron saint of Zadar.
Željko Heimer, 18 March 1999
In Louda's 'European Civic Coats of Arms', 1966 the saint is
called Chrysogonus (somehow he reminds me of St. George)
Jarig Bakker, 18 March 1999
The flag is swallow-tailed, ratio 1:2, with hoist square being
white with blue picture of a haloed horseman riding to hoist
holding a spear (St. Grisogon, patron of Zadar) and the fly part
being divided horizontally in red-white-blue. See also: Jugoslavenska Tankerska Plovidba - Zadar.
Željko Heimer, 15 June 2001
The flag of Tankerska plovidba Zadar (shipping house) at <www.morsko-prase.hr>.
Željko Heimer, 26 Febuary 2004
