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House Flags of Brazilian Shipping Companies, I-L

Leite & Cia
Levi & Cia
Libra
Lima, Raimundo Vieira
Lloyd Brasileiro
Lloyd Nacional

J. A. Leite & Cia (Amazonas)

by Jorge Candeias

The surname is Portuguese (and means "milk"). The flag is a blue-white-blue horizontal triband, with a white disc in the center, fimbriated red, containing a red 5-pointed star and a letter in each of the spaces between the points of the star, composing the whole acronym (JAL&C). This flag is probably influenced by the flag of Amazonas: same colors, same overall structure, and a star.
Source: Chart of house flags circa 1950 at www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 30 June 2002

B. Levi & Cia. (Amazonas)

by Jorge Candeias

The flag is a dark blue saltire on white, and the initials (BL&C) are distributed through the quadrants formed by the saltire. It's eventually another coincidence, but Levi is a common Jewish surname, and the flag has the Israeli colors.
Source: Chart of house flags circa 1950 at www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 30 June 2002

Libra (Rio de Janeiro)

Companhia de Navegação Libra

by Joseph McMillan

The flag of Companhia Libra de Navegação (originally Linhas Brasileiras, whence the acronym Libra) as shown on the company website, is white with a cross formed of four mirrored letters "L", the one in upper fly red and the others blue.
Joseph McMillan, 15 June 2001

Raimundo Vieira Lima

by Jorge Candeias

The flag is vertically divided in yellow and white, the yellow smaller than the white (though not much and, at least in the source image, not using a common ratio) with a dark blue star centered where the panels meet. This star is probably related with the star in the flag of Pará.
Source: Chart of house flags circa 1950 at www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br
Jorge Candeias, 4 June 2002

Listed in Lloyd's Register 1949-50 as operating two vessels totaling about 600 tons.
Joseph McMillan, 28 October 2002

Lloyd Brasileiro (Rio de Janeiro)

Companhia de Navegação Lloyd Brasileiro (Lloydbras)

by Ivan Sache

Znamierowski shows on page 244 a plate of houseflags of North and South American shipping companies, dated 1933. The original source is Lloyd Reederei-Flaggen der Welt-Handelsflotte [Lloyd Houseflags of the World Merchant Fleet], (1933):

#373. Cia. de Nav. Lloyd Brazileiro - Rio de Janeiro
Cruzeiro flag with