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House flags of Argentine shipping companies

Last modified: 2004-12-28 by antonio martins
Keywords: compañía argentina de navegación | mihanovich | m | ncla | sud atlántica sociedad anónima de navegación | anchor (blue) | sa | lozenge (white) | ultramar | remocaldores ultragas ltda. | u | ring (black) |
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Compañía Argentina de Navegación Dodero

Dodero house flag
by James Dignan, 08 Oct 2003

Source: [sam57]
James Dignan, 08 Oct 2003

Blue, a white saltire, in the center a white disk with a blue D. (D for Dodero, I assume.)
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 18 Oct 2003


Compañía Argentina de Navegación Mihanovich Ltda.

CANM house flag
by António Martins, 26 Dec 2004

Compañía Argentina de Navegación (N. Mihanovich Ltda.), formed by Nicholas Mihanovich — it eventually became Compañia Argentina de Navegación Mihanovich Ltda. and adopted a diagonally quartered flag of white (chief) and blue bearing the letters "C" (chief), "A" (fly), "N" (hoist) and "L" (base) all counterchanged.
Neale Rosanoski, 08 May 2003

Compañía Argentina de Navegación / N. Mihanovich Ltda. (previous flag)

CANM old house flag
by Ivan Sache, 24 Mar 2001

From the plate [llz33] shown in Znamierowski [zna00]:

#375. Cia. Argentina de Nav. (N. Mihanovich Ltda.) - Buenos Aires
Shipping lines: Buenos Aires - East coast of South America Steam cargos: 23; Steam passenger boats: 25; Motor passenger boats: 6; River boats: 104; Tugboats: 43; Motor cargos: 11; Steam tugboats: 71; Motor tugboats: 7; plus various cattle transportation boats etc. Tonnage of the passenger boats: ca 50,000 Reizt. brutto.
Red flag with a white M in the middle.
Ivan Sache, 24 Mar 2001

Information in Spanish on this subject is here:

Jan Mertens, 06 Dec 2003


CIAMAR — Compañía Argentina de Transportes Marítimos SA

CIAMAR house flag
by Ivan Sache, 21 Aug 2002

CIAMAR is Compania Argentina de Transportes Maritimos SA, based in Buenos Aires. The company is still active. The flag is 4:7, with a geometric patterns difficult to describe. The main element of the flag is a central red rectangle bearing the company acronym in white. (Source: Joseph Nüsse’s website)
Ivan Sache, 21 Aug 2002


Sud Atlántica Sociedad Anónima de Navegación

CSAV house flag
by Ivan Sache, 24 Mar 2001

From the plate [llz33] shown in Znamierowski [zna00]:

#376. Sud Atlantica Soc. Anon. de Nav. - Buenos Aires
Shipping lines: Buenos Aires - La Plata, Brazil Cargo and passenger steamboats: 8 Tonnage: ca 10,000 Regt. brutto.
Red flag with a white lozenge nearly touching the edges of the flag. A blue anchor in the middle with S and A, in blue, on either side of the anchor, respectively.
Ivan Sache, 24 Mar 2001

Sud Atlantica Sociedad Anonima de Navegaçion [sic!]: Operated pre WW1 with Lloyds 1904 [llo04] indicating that it was operated by Miguel Mihanovich, it appears to have ceased operations around 1930. Talbot-Booth in his 1936 books [tbb36] shows the flag under Compañia Sud-Americana de Vapores in error.
Neale Rosanoski, 08 May 2003

In the 1930 Larousse Commercial house flag pages [hok30] this flag — red with white diamond, its four points touching the flag’s edges; in the diamond, a blue upright anchor (without rope) accompanied by blue letters S and A, left and right of the stock respectively — is misidentified as that of Cia SudAmericana de Vapores, Valparaiso.
Jan Mertens, 29 Oct 2003 and 01 May 2004


Grupo Ultramar

Ultramar house flag
by António Martins, 01 May 2004

Ultramar Group is a port agency serving shippers in ports in Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. The site shows the company's house flag, per saltire white and blue with a blue ring surrounding a white disk on the center, and the letter U on it in blue.
Joe Mcmillan, 02 Jul 2001

It seems that the Ultramar HQ is in Argentina.
António Martins, 01 May 2004

The World Salvage Directory (http://www.marine-salvage.com/wsd_int.htm) of the International Salvage Union (ISU) lists the member companies and show the house flag of some of them (on each individual company page, linked from the directory). The flag of Remocaldores Ultragas Ltda. is divided per saltire blue-white-blue-white, with the letter "U" in blue enclosed in a blue circle, in the middle.
Ivan Sache, 24 Jun 2001

The page http://www.marine-salvage.com/companypages/ultragas.htm shows this flag crossed with the ICS signal flag Zulu.
António Martins, 01 May 2004

variant

Ultramar house flag
by António Martins, 01 May 2004

At http://www.ultramargroup.com/, the ring is black and the "U" is blue: Apart from the color difference, the ratio is slightly more oblong (5:8 instead of ~2:3), and the ring and "U" are thinner.
António Martins, 01 May 2004


RUA — Remolcadores Unidos Argentinos

RUA house flag
by António Martins, 26 Dec 2004

The houseflag of this Argentinian tugs company is triangle — white with blue border, charged with bold red R. See: http://www.rua.com.ar/.
Dov Gutterman, 08 Aug 2003