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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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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 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
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