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Sabon Logistics

[Sabon Logistics] image by Eugene Ipavec, 3 Dec 2006

A Dutch forwarder not easily encountered on the web (try www.sabon.nl), Sabon Logistics BV is specialized in inland shipping.  Now established at Papendrecht on the Oude Maas River, quite near Dordrecht in fact.

See this Vlootschouw page concerning the vessel ‘Kiliya’ for the company logo, middle of page: Five green stripes, left aligned and pointed at the right side, gradually getting smaller, bear a yellow initial each, reading from top to bottom ‘SABON’. The house flag is blue with the logo in the hoist, as seen on ‘Spes Nova’
(Binnenvaart page).
Jan Mertens, 1 Dec 2006


Salahadji

[Salahadji houseflag] image by Jarig Bakker, 30 January 2005

Scheepvaart en Petroleum Maatschappij Salahadji, Amsterdam (Shipping and Petrol Co Salahadji) - white flag with blue/yellow saltire; in center white diamond, blue "FH". The Salahadji was an old ship of the Shell-group - I have no idea what "FH" represents. Salahadji is a little port in SE Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 30 January 2005


Salka

[Salka houseflag] image by Eugene Ipavec, 22 May 2006

Salka Handels- en Transportmaatschappij BV has an unusual logo – to say the least – shown on this Vlootschouw page.
Almost halfway down, it appears to be a heap of variously coloured bits reminding one of jigsaw puzzle pieces – having a black foul anchor (brown rope) and a white scroll bearing ‘SALKA’ in black letters as the more common elements.
Let me add that the various pieces have different forms and are coloured bright green, fuchsia, blue-green, dark blue (purplish on Vlootschouw), and yellow.
This is the company website, showing a white flag with the logo and throwing in an orange pennant for good measure:
One of many similar firms located at Zwijndrecht, Salka presents itself as your partner for waterborne transport of polluted earth, dredgings, and various materials for recycling.  In addition there is the sand and gravel business.
Besides two owned vessels Salka can count on some forty chartered barges of various kinds all of which are certified for the transport of above mentioned materials

Salka is said to mean ‘surprise’ in Latin (it does?) and yes, I am surprised!
Jan Mertens, 20 May 2006


Sanara, Rotterdam

[Sanara houseflag] image by Jarig Bakker, 15 Sep 2005

Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95] Sanara B.V., Rotterdam - white flag, at hoist vertical outlined "SANARA", at bottom fly red blob, white "S".
Jarig Bakker, 15 Sep 2005


Sauer Bevrachtingen

[Sauer Bevrachtingen houseflag] image by Jarig Bakker, 21 Jul 2006

Yesterday I saw in the Oude Houtmanhaven in Amsterdam a ship with the flag of Oranje Verzekeringen and an unknown flag: horizontal VWV, a white hoistdiagonal reaching half flaglength, charged with vertical aligned "SAUER" in black.
Jan Mertens assured me that it was "Sauer Bevrachtingen" (Chartering), Rotterdam BV., Zwijndrecht. No presence on the web (yet). The colors are the colors of
Rotterdam of course.
Jarig Bakker, 21 Jul 2006


Scaldis

[Scaldis houseflag] image by Jarig Bakker, 25 Feb 2006

Here is a house flag of a Dutch company in Belgian colours: Scaldis Lijn, owned by Hudig & Pieters, Rotterdam.  Found on a Kennedy, Hunter & Co.’s
agencies list, date unknown.
Flag divided horizontally red-yellow-red, bearing the word SCALDIS in large black letters on the middle stripe.
‘Scaldis’ is Latin for the Schelde river; when people mention the river they usually mean the Western branch of the river leading to Antwerp, Belgium.
(Incidentally, both river mouths are Dutch territory).
Jan Mertens, 4 Feb 2006


Scandutch

[Scandutch houseflag] image by Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005

Jan Mertens reported this link with mainly Dutch houseflags. ScanDutch - white flag, red rotor with three blades.
Loughran's "A Survey of Mercantile Houseflags and funnels", 1979 lists this as Scanservice (1969-72); ScanDutch (1972- ); Consortium.
Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005


Scheepvaart- en Steenkolen Maatschappij

[Scheepvaart- en Steenkolen mij.] image by Jarig Bakker, 19 Oct 2003

N.V. Scheepvaart- en Steenkolen Maatschappij, Rotterdam (Shipping- and Coal Society).
Houseflag: seven equally wide horizontal stripes of blue and red, with in the center of the three central stripes a white diamond charged with S.S.M.
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 19 Oct 2003


Seatrade Groningen

[Seatrade Groningen] image by Jarig Bakker, 6 Jan 2006

Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95] Seatrade Groningen B.V., Groningen - orange flag, stylized white "S", black "G".
Jarig Bakker, 6 Jan 2006


Shipdock, Amsterdam

[Shipdock houseflag] image by Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005

Jan Mertens reported this link with mainly Dutch houseflags. Shipdock, Amsterdam - Five horizontal stripes Blue - Orange - white - Orange - blue; on white at hoist "SHIPDOCK" in blue above "AMSTERDAM" in orange; at the hoist a drawing of a dock.
Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005


Scheepswerf Slob

[Scheepswerf Slob houseflag] image by Eugene Ipavec, 22 Apr 2006

Scheepswerf Slob BV or “Slob Shipyard” is a venerable firm established at Papendrecht at the Lower Merwede River, across Dordrecht in fact. Here is the company website (English section available).
We immediately see the circular black-on-orange logo made up of the letters S-L-O-B and an orange flag with said logo flying on a ship, the ‘Sarah’ which is – we learn further on – a “Container Feeder and Dry Cargo Vessel”. This must have been a trial run, I suppose.

Quote from the introduction: “The shipyard is designing and building a great variety of vessels of different type destined for seagoing-and inland shipping, offshore and dredging industry. Moreover complete steel constructions and hulls (called casco’s, jm) for custom built motor yachts are being built.  The yard also carries out refits to all kind of vessels.”
Employing 78 people, the firm was founded in 1947 by Kommer Slob and sold to De Vries Scheepsbouw at Aalsmeer as there was no successor.
Additional information from the on-line Binnenvaartkrant, issue of 11 April 2006.
Jan Mertens, 22 Apr 2006


Piet Smit Sleepdienst

[Piet Smit houseflag] image by Jarig Bakker, 21 Mar 2006, after image on this website.

Piet Smit Sleepdienst BV, a Dutch towage firm, is yet another one taken over by Smit Internationaal as explained in Jansen & Van Heck’s “Duwvaart”, p. 89.
Shown in b/w, its triangular house flag or pennant is described as being white having a red triangle in the upper left corner and a blue one in the lower left corner.
Of simple design and repeating the national colours, this pennant recalls a yachting burgee.
Some history found at this source (it does not show a flag but a funnel and moreover every vessel had its own initial):
Founded in 1877 by Piet Smit Jr as the ‘Slikkerveersche Sleepdienst', starting out with five tugboats and expanding by taking over others.  Later based in Rotterdam, the firm wisely renamed itself ‘NV Nederlandsche Stooomsleepdienst v/h Piet Smit Jr’ (i.e. Dutch Steam Towage Service Co. Ltd formerly Piet Smit Jr) in 1913.  Owned a hundred tugs in 1927.
The company took over Stoomsleepdienst ‘Maas’ in 1969 and changed its name into ‘Piet Smit Sleepdienst’ two years later. Coming upon hard times, the fleet now only counted 23 tugs and cooperation with ‘Nieuwe Rotterdamse Sleepdienst’ began but only to disappear into a greater whole, Smit Internationaal.
There was a related shipyard which went broke in 1988 - and that is the way the world goes.
Jan Mertens, 1 Mar 2006


Smits

[Smits houseflag] image by Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005

Jan Mertens reported this link with mainly Dutch houseflags. Smits - yellow flag; in center a shield with red, white and blue horizontal bars; on red white "M", on blue white "S"..
Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005


Solleveld & Co.

[Solleveld houseflag] image by Jarig Bakker, 28 January 2005

Solleveld van der Meer & van Hattum, Rotterdam - white flag, blue saltire; in center red shield, charged with the firm's initials in white (I think...).
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 28 January 2005


Spliethoff

[Spliethoff's Bevrachtingskantoor BV] image by Jorge Candeias, 12 Mar 1999

Houseflag of Spliethoff's Bevrachtingskantoor BV (Amsterdam).
Quartered per saltire in orange, dark blue, white and red with a black "S" centered.
Jorge Candeias, 12 March 1999

Source: Company's website.
Dov Gutterman, 26 February 1999