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image by Ivan Sache, 29 March 2008
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels
(1912) shows the house flag of "Apcar & Co. (Apcar Line)" (#133, p. 43), a
company based in Calcutta, as divided red-white-red-white by a blue saltire.
Quoting Wikipedia:
"For more than a century the Apcar Family was prominent in commerce and industry
in India.
[...]
Apcar & Co acted as general business agents and insurance brokers and controlled
the Apcar Line. The Apcar Line ran a fleet of five vessels from Calcutta
carrying Chinese coolies and cargo, largely to and from Singapore, Hong Kong and
Amoy (Xiamen), with connections to Japan. Pirates were active, and well into the
twentieth century, the ships had to be armed and sandbagged against attacks.
Apcar & Co also entered the coal business. In 1862 coal seams were discovered
near Raniganj and Asansol. Apcar & Co purchased an extensive stretch of land and
started a mine at Lachipur (4 miles from Asansol). They also opened coal mines
at Charanpur, Faridpur and Borachuck. A large number of Armenians either owned
collieries or worked in various capacities in the coalfields. Seeing the rapid
development of the coalfields, European firms purchased large areas from Apcar &
Co on a royalty basis and started to mine the coal. As a result Asansol became a
large and developed mining district. On 27 February 1912 Apcar & Co, ships,
workshops and mines, were sold to the British India Steam Navigation Company for
Rs 800,000 and absorbed by BISN. Sailings from Calcutta to Japan were still
advertised as being conducted by the Apcar Line into the 1950s. The coal mines
were managed by Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co until 1951."
The biography of
J.C. Clare (1853-1940) mentions that, in 1875-1880, he "served on the opium
steamers of Apcar & Co., Calcutta, trading between Hong Kong and Calcutta."
The Apcar line is briefly mentioned on the British
India Steam Navigation Co. page.
Ivan Sache, 29 March 2008
Bombay & Persia S.N. Co., Ld., Bombay - white with Spanish style green
stripes. Possible connection with the Mogul Line.
Jarig Bakker, 18 February 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, based on National Maritime Museum website
Based on the National Maritime
Museum website, the house flag of the Bombay Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.,
Bombay, is a white burgee with a red five-pointed star in the centre. The flag
is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is
machine sewn.
Jarig Bakker, 5 August 2004
Century Shipping Co., Ltd., Bombay - blue-white-blue triband, red logo in
center.
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 September 2005
by Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Chowgule Steamships Ltd., Bombay - orange swallowtail, white "C".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Damodar Bulk Carriers Ltd., Bombay - red flag, white disk, red "D".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 28 September 2005
by Jarig Bakker, 7 February 2006
Dempo Steamships Ltd., Bombay - blue flag, white diamond, red "D".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 7 February 2006
by Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Essar Shipping Co., Ltd., Bombay - white flag, a blue arrow-like item.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
by Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Everett (India) Pvt., Ltd. is a diversified Indian shipping and travel
company. Its house flag can be seen at
http://everett.co.in/travel_clients.htm.
Ron Lahav, 10 November 2007
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 June 2007
The house flag (flagoid) of the Mumbai based Five Stars Shipping Co. Pte Ltd.
can be found at
http://www.shippingdirectory.info. It is divided per saltire in black
portions (left and right) and red ones (upper and lower), the name-giving five
stars – in white, six-pointed, and resting on two points each – placed in the
centre of each triangle, and one in the flag’s centre.
The accompanying text is derivative, rather see
the company website:
Five Stars Shipping – founded in 1985 – has all aspects of ship management on
offer such as technical and crew management (including training). Most of the
cared for vessels are bulk ships. The site “banner” on top shows a logo
consisting of a blue triangular sail bearing five five-pointed stars in a
diamond pattern, however the ‘Contact us’ section shows a vague impression of
the house flag showing all stars next to each other.
PS: this firm is not to be confused with the Chinese-Australian ‘Five Star
Shipping’ nor the Myanmar 'Five Star Line'.
Jan Mertens, 22 January 2006
by Jarig Bakker, 7 February 2006
Garware Shipping Corp., Ltd., Bombay - yellow flag, red "G".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 7 February 2006
The Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd. (Mumbai/Bombay)
Flag
diagonally divided red-green, with AHB in blue placed on a white rectangle in
the middle of the flag.
Ivan Sache, 31 August 2002
Josef's flag varies from those shown by shipping sources which may indicate changes along the way. The colours are agreed to by the 1966 Liverpool Journal of Commerce sheet but it shows the letters on a white diamond. In support of this version is the fact that it appears as a panel on the funnel as confirmed by photos.
On the other hand Brown 1995 changes the red to orange and reverses the direction of the dividing line to upper hoist to lower fly, again showing a [smaller] white diamond and blue lettering.
A subsidiary was formed in the UK
at the beginning of the 1990s as The Great Eastern Shipping Co. London
Ltd. with Brown 1995 showing their flag as also a diagonal biband of orange and
green, this time divided from lower hoist to upper flag, with overall a back
"G".
India Steamship Co. Ltd. For some reason several sources, including the
latest Browns, show the flag with the point downwards, which is even
more surprising when their funnel images, where the flag [sic] appears
as a band, in all cases is shown with the point upwards.
Neale Rosanoski, 18 June 2004
by Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Havers Lines PVT., Ltd., Calcutta - blue flag, yellow circle, containing a yellow embattled tower.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
by Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Himalaya Shipping Co., Ltd., Calcutta - yellow flag, blue "H"-like item.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, based on National Maritime Museum website
Based on the National Maritime
Museum website, the house flag of the India General Steam Navigation Co. A
rectangular flag quartered in red and blue with a white cross. In the centre is
a five-pointed red star. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting.
It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn.
Jarig Bakker, 17 August 2004
India Steamship Co. Ltd. (Calcutta)
Red flag with a yellow flag in the middle.
Ivan Sache, 31 August 2002
Indian Co-operative Navigation & Trading Company, Bombay - horizontal triband
white-green-white; in center red Maltese cross.
Jarig Bakker, 18 February 2005
Indian Shipping Co., Ltd., Calcutta - red flag, yellow 5-pointed star. (The
star is standing on one point; the funnel has the star on two legs, and Brown
1951 (Wedge, 1951) has that too - see
India Steamship Co. Ltd.).
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 28 September 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 30 November 2006
One of the companies represented by Belgian agent Durot at Antwerp, Indus
Container Line, is established at Mumbai, India. The most I could find on this
firm – not very much in fact – can be read at the Durot website:
http://www.durot.be/services/indus.htm. Apart from Mumbai, the company has
offices at eight other cities in India, not all of them harbours. The only
European ports sailed to are Antwerp and Rotterdam, it appears.
Simply designed, the house flag (flagoid) is light blue bearing an orange
initial ‘I’. Surely this item will turn up sooner or later on a photo or in a
flag & funnel book...
Jan Mertens, 30 November 2006
by Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Jayshree Teas & Industries Ltd, Calcutta - red flag yellow outlined "J".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Bombay - blue flag with the company
logo in center.
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 September 2005
image by António MARTINS-Tuválkin
A slightly different design was given by a flat flag photo in 12 January 2002 by "Jakdustyca":
The shade of blue is darker, the flag ratio is smaller, about 5:8, the outer ring is smaller, the star's tips protrude outside the outer ring, the central disk with "LT" is much smaller, the inner discs are black, not blue, and there is no outer black ring around the central disc.
This is from Joseph Nüsse's site of house flag photos, namely from page http://flags.seeleute.net/118.htm .
António MARTINS-Tuválkin, 8 November 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, based on National Maritime Museum website
Based on the National Maritime
Museum website, the house flag of the Mogul Line Ltd, Bombay, India. A
flag with three white and two green horizontal stripes. The flag is made of a
wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn.
Jarig Bakker, 17 August 2004
Apparently square, with central blue field on a white one edged by a
red-and-yellow border (upper and right border of flag red, other borders yellow,
diagonally divided).
Ocean Sparkle Ltd was founded in 1995. Activities: towage, lighterage and port
management. The firm cooperates with the famous Dutch Wijsmuller group. The
company was the first in India to use steel barges and tugs for cargo lighterage
instead of the traditional wooden barges. It currently owns 12 barges, two
harbor-towing tugs and two ocean going tugs.
Seat: Hyderabad. WebsiteL
http://www.oceansparkle.com/
Jan Mertens, Ivan Sache, 3 April 2004
The Scindia Steamship Navigation Co. Ltd. (Mumbai/Bombay)
Blue
flag with a red swastika placed on a white disc in the middle of the flag.
Ivan Sache, 31 August 2002
Loughran (1995) shows a flag with a smaller
version of the disk and swastika.
Jarig Bakker, 28 September 2005
image by Ivan Sache, 31 August 2002
Source: Indian Princely States
See also:Sirohi was a small but populous 15-gun state: 1,994 sq.mi., with a population
of 216,000 people in 1931. Haynes shows a flag horizontally stripped (with equal
stripes, this time) in orange (saffron?), green, red, blue and white.
Jorge Candeias, 1 May 2002
South India Shipping Corp. Ltd., Madras - blue flag, in center white diamond
charged with blue "SIS".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 September 2005
Surrendra Overseas Ltd., Calcutta - white field, in center "APV".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 September 2005
Texmaco Ltd., Calcutta - white flag, blue diamond, white "T".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 September 2005
Thakur Shipping Co., Ltd., Bombay - blue flag, a stylized trident.
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 28 September 2005
Tolani Shipping Co., Ltd., Bombay - white flag blue top and bottom stripes;
red "T".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 28 September 2005