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House flags of Irish shipping companies

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Alliance & Dublin Consumers' Gas

[British & Ireland houseflag] by James Dignan

Source: "The dumpy book of ships and the sea" (ed. Henry Sampson, published by Sampson Low, London, circa 1957).
James Dignan, 11 October 2003

Alliance & Dublin Consumers' Gas Co. Ridley Chesterton in his 1967 Coastal Ships describes an orange flag bearing the coat of arms of the company in black and white.
Neale Rosanoski, 17 June 2004

British & Ireland Steam Packet Co. Ltd

[British & Ireland houseflag] by Jarig Bakker, based on the British National Maritime Museum

The website of the National Maritime Museum describes the house flag of "the house flag of the British and Irish Steam Packet Co. Ltd, Dublin. On a white field, there is a red cross with a green border. The flag is made of nylon fabric, with a cotton hoist and is machine sewn. It has a rope and toggle attached.

Started in 1836, the British and Irish Steam Packet Co. Ltd was a Dublin based company running services to London via Falmouth and Plymouth. It merged with Coast Lines in 1938 and was taken over by the Irish Government in 1965."
Jarig Bakker, 6 August 2004

British & Irish Steam Packet Co. (Coast Lines Ltd): Liverpool, Southampton, Plymouth - Dublin. Dublin-Preston; Manchester.
Houseflag: White, with Red St. George's Cross over Green St. George's Cross.
Phil Nelson, 12 October 2003

Some sources show the green a lot narrower but this seems to be the generally accepted version.
Neale Rosanoski, 17 June 2004

[British & Irish Steam Packet Co. houseflag] by Rob Raeside

Around 1967 a blue flag with a white Gaelic "e" was produced in line with a funnel change but it was never actually used as a houseflag although it was used briefly by the "Leinster" as a stem jack [Loughran (1979)]. In the late 1980s the name changed to B&I Line plc and then in the latter 1990s it became part of the Irish Continental Group having been owned