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Romanian shipping lines

Compania de Navigaţie Maritima
Mihei Shipping & Trading
Navrom Shipping
Romania Prima Soc. Nationala de Nav. Marit.
Serviciul Maritim Român
Societatea Anonima Romana de Navigatiune pe Dunare (SRD)

Compania de Navigaţie Maritima

by Jorge Candeias

Mihei Shipping & Trading

by Jarig Bakker

Mihei Shipping & Trading (Constantza, Romania) - Blue with two narrow yellow stripes cut in the middle for placing a yellow M. Company website: http://www.mihei.ro/.
Dov Gutterman, 24 October 2003

Captain Andrian Mihei founded Carmar shipping (http://www.carmar.ro - no flag found, just a logo) in 1990; he created in April 1993 the new company Mihei Shipping and Trade Ltd and was the first Romanian private ship-owner of a dry cargo vessel 3025 dwt 'Irina M'. At present the company has two vessels, apparently mainly active in river transport.
Jarig Bakker, 24 October 2003

Navrom Shipping

by Jarig Bakker, 28 December 2005

Navrom Shipping, Constanza - horizontal blue - yellow - white - red; in center of blue a standing anchor between "NR", all yellow.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 28 December 2005

Romania Prima Soc. Nationala de Nav. Marit.

by Jarig Bakker

Romania Prima Soc. Nationala de Nav. Marit., Bucharest - horizontal triband RBR, proportioned c. 1:3:1; in center yellow "R".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies [Wedge 1926]
Jarig Bakker, 15 February 2005

Serviciul Maritim Român

by Jarig Bakker

Image based on Brown's Flags and Funnels (1951)

Serviciul Maritim Român, Bucharest: blue with a red canton bearing yellow letters SMR, a yellow emblem near the fly edge consisting of an crowned yellow anchor (funnel: white with narrow black band at the top). The red canton is 1/3 of the flag's height and 1/2 of the flag's length as far as I can see. The crowned anchor in
the fly almost fully occupies 1/3 of the flag, at the fly's end. There is also a small circle centered on the anchor I cannot identify, it may be part of an artistically twisted cable or perhaps a post horn?

The following site, The Romanian Postal-History Web Page, has some info on this firm:

"The S.M.R.: In 1895, based on the law adopted on 7.06.1888, the Romanian Maritime Service (= Serviciul Maritim Român or S.M.R.) was established to provide sea transport to and from the Levant. On the continent, S.M.R. had direct connection with the Paris - Ostende - Bucharest - Constanta express train, the rapid train from Berlin and the Romanian express trains. The first Constanta - Constantinople route was opened on 26.09.1895."

Jan Mertens, 26 October 2003

The Mystic Seaport Foundation website (flag no. 1794 on p. 87 of chapter "House Flags and Funnels of Steam Vessels") shows the canton occupying a full quarter of the flag.
Jan Mertens, 22 December 2003

The Maritime Timetable link to a brochure (valid till? or from? 30 June 1937 - click to enlarge):
http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/smr37a.jpg shows the house flag. Now here's a direct link to No. 1794 in the on-line 1912 Lloyds Flags & Funnels: http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/initiative/Impage.cfm?PageNum=87&bibid=11061&ChapterId=8 and the emblem is on the right! A mistake, or perhaps an earlier version? All this concerns not the emblem itself (crowned anchor and decorative ribbons as far as I can see, possibly a screw behind the anchor in Lloyds), only its position in the flag.
Jan Mertens, 13 January 2005

Societatea Anonima Romana de Navigatiune pe Dunare (SRD)

image located by Jan Mertens, 28 May 2007

The SRD or ‘Societatea Anonima Romana de Navigatiune pe Dunare’ was a Romanian shipping company, shares of which appear in auctions now and then, but usually without house flag. Now however it has shown up - direct link to such an offer, a 1937 share: http://www.okazii.ro/catalog/. The tiny photo in the lower right corner is clickable and is the source of the image above. The flag field seems to be completely yellow but on inspection a darker central horizontal stripe appears (which colour? blue??); in any case the company initials ‘SRD’, heavily stylized and intertwined, in white, appear in the centre.

The German scripophily auction site HSHW recently had the same share on offer and helpfully informs that above firm (stl “Romanian Danube Navigation Co. Ltd", jm) was founded in 1914, the result of a merger of several companies, building up a fleet of about 120 vessels: towboats, tankers, tugs, passenger ships for local lines, etc. including cross-border transportation. Seat was Bucharest; the company does not seem to have survived WWII.
Webpage (see Auction XXIII – Page 5 - No. 361): http://www.historische-wertpapiere.de/
Jan Mertens, 28 May 2007