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image by Phil Nelson
Source: Colin Stewart and John B. Styring: Flags, Funnels and
Hull Colours, 1963 [6].
I assume that the company is in fact Rederiaktiebolaget Transatlantic,
given the letters R-A-B-T.
Ole Andersen, 23 September 2000
Originated 1904 as Swedish South African Lines with the
letters being "SSAL" in place of "RABT". Lloyds
confirm that the correct name is Rederiaktiebologet Transatlantic. In 1998
they were acquired by Bilspedition A/B and later lost their identity.
Neale Rosanoski, 5 August 2003
image by Jarig
Bakker, 11 August 2005
Source: http://kommandobryggan.se/Bryggan/Rederi.htm
Dark blue flag, yellow saltire, in all quarters
white "SSAL".
Jarig Bakker, 11 August 2005
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image by Phil
Nelson
Source: Colin Stewart and John B. Styring: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours,
1963 [ste63].
http://w1.435.telia.com/~u43505985/SHIPP1.HTML
shows this flag with a much thicker T, and with a truly strange field colour,
but I assume it is a scanning artifact (intense light + enamel).
Ole Andersen, 23 September 2000
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image by Jarig Bakker, 12 August
2005
Source: http://kommandobryggan.se/Bryggan/Rederi.htm
(part of Transoil)
- yellow flag, black disk charged with yellow (sort of) "K". This firm
originated from Stora Kopparbergs Berslags AB; Kopparberg is a town and län
(now Dalecarlia) in Western Sweden.
Jarig Bakker, 12 August 2005
The name was an oil and gas brand name originated 1947 by
a joint venture between the mining company Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags
A/B and the shipping company Rederi A/B Transatlantic [through their
subsidiary Rederi A/B Transoil] producing Koppartrans Olje A/B and
Koppertrans Rederi A/B. Shell took a 50% interest in 1958 and then
full control in the mid 1960s. The emblem is a "K" formed as a
stylized gryphon with a red flame extending as a tongue representing
the eternal flame on an oil field. The brand was probably more
familiar of land through gas stations and the logo can best be seen at
Gas Signs. By the early 1970s the brand
had disappeared but has been resurrected as a clothing design brand.
Loughran 1979 [2] shows the flag under Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags as
owners of the "Stora" in the early 1960s.
Neale Rosanoski, 18 May 2006