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William H. Whitlock, Jr., New York (by 1846-1853)
William Whitlock operated a line of packets from New York to Le Havre. The
company was merged into the Union Line of Havre Packets in 1853. The flag was a
red swallowtail with a white six-pointed star bearing a black W.
Source: chart of "Private Signals of the Merchants of New York"
Joe McMillan, 4 December 2001
William W. Whitlock Jr. The The Mystic Seaport Foundation site shows two alternatives, one being a rectangular red flag with a 5 pointed white star bearing a black "W" and the second a red tapered swallowtail with a white 6 pointed star and no letter. McKay in "South Street" gives yet another alternative with the swallowtail version shown by Joe deleting the "W".
Neale Rosanoski, 27 April 2005
Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company, Newark, New Jersey (later San Francisco)
(1900-present)
Weyerhaeuser is one of the largest lumber and paper companies in the United
States. It began operating its own shipping between the US east coast and the
Pacific northwest in 1923. It continued to do so until 1968, after which it
relied on chartered ships to carry its products. In 1981, the company
established a subsidiary, Westwood Shipping, to manage long-term charters, but I
do not know if it still uses the last of these Weyerhaeuser flags:
image by Joe McMillan
Source: Wedge (1951) shows a blue flag with a
white W inside a white ring.
image by Joe McMillan
Sources:
Stewart (1953) and
US Navy's 1961 H.O. show flag as blue with a
yellow disk bearing a WS monogram, the W in blue and the S in white fimbriated
blue.
Source Stewart & Styring (1963) shows flag blue with the modern corporate logo in yellow, a triangle with another triangle issuing from its base forming the outline of an arrowhead or pine tree.
Joe McMillan, 4 December 2001
Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co. I have my doubts about the Brown 1951 flag going by the funnel design for around that period which is shown on a photo on the company website. It shows an ornate "W" and I suspect that the flag would be in line. The site states that the "tree in a triangle" emblem was adopted in 1959.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 April 2005
Williams & Guion Black Star Line, New York
This firm was established by the 1840s and began running a Liverpool line in
1851. Along with Grinnell and Minturn and the Black Ball Line, it was one of the
most important U.S. companies bringing Irish immigrants to New York. The flag
was blue with a white lozenge bearing a black star. The same flag (sometimes
with a six-pointed star) was later used by the British-flagged Guion Line of
steamships under same the ownership as the American-flagged line of sail
packets. (The reason for putting the steamers under the British flag was that
until 1912 only US-built ships could be placed under US registry, and the
leading steamer technology during this period was being produced in Glasgow.)
Source: chart of "Private Signals of the Merchants of New York"
Joe McMillan, 4 December 2001
The clipper ship Adelaide (built 1854 and NOT the 1864 clipper ship "City of
Adelaide" used on the Australian run) sailed the Liverpool to New York run for
Williams & Guion. An image of an 1856 Currier & Ives print of this ship is
available on the web at:
http://haleysteele.com/hs_root/auctions/auction.cfm?id=156 You'll
notice that the ship is flying the blue and white Williams & Guion flag as shown
here.
Mardon Erbland, 11 March 2005
Williams & Guion. The painting lead by Mardon helps provided that the artist was being accurate. If the Jack flown at the foremast can be deemed correct then the houseflag is likely to be also. I make this point because there are differences of opinion about the houseflag and I understand that artists did not always worry about the accuracy of their flag portrayals especially when they were such a small feature. Loughran (1979) for example notes that some authorities recorded a burgee, i.e. swallowtailed flag, with a 5 pointed star, but he is emphatic that this is incorrect with the flag being rectangular and the star of 6 points. The Mystic Seaport Foundation shows the 5 pointed star rectangular flag version but notes that one of its references has a 6 pointed star. They also show that Williams & Guion operated a second line on the Liverpool run, the Patriotic Line with a diagonal white and blue flag.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 April 2005
J. S. Winslow & Co., Portland, Maine (by 1884 to at least 1918)
J. S. Winslow ran sailing schooners, some with as many as six masts, between
Norfolk, Virginia, and New England, carrying coal from the mines in West
Virginia. One of the company's ships, the five-master Addie M. Lawrence, braved
the German U-boats of World War I to transport ammunition to Europe from
America. The flag was white with a blue W.
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905
Joe McMillan, 4 December 2001
The Mystic Seaport Foundation site, quoting for the Regular Line, shows a white flag with a broad yellow border bearing a red star in hoist and yellow star in fly [above left] whilst Loughran (1979), who uses the incorrect spelling of "Windsor" has a similar flag but with the red star in base and the yellow in chief [above right]. Possibly the variations, if existing, were used for the different services.
Nathaniel Winsor. Going by the clipper card of "Dashing Wave", which is the
one I assume is referred to, the red star is placed towards the hoist and it is
not clear whether there is anything else in the fly. This could support the two
star design for there are other variations shown using this number.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 April 2005
Private Signals of the Merchants of New York
confirms Neale's comments about this flag.
Joe McMillan, 16 August 2005
US shipping lines house flags - 'X, Y, Z' continued