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by Željko Heimer, 27 March 2004
The 1930 "Larousse Commercial" lists this company as
Italian, based as it was in Fiume, but we all know that Fiume is
now Rijeka, Croatia.
"Adria" S.A. di Navigazione Marittima has a blue flag
with a red saltire (the arms equal to 1/5 of the flag's width),
over all a yellow anchor (without rope) which bears a letter A,
also yellow: its apex has been flattened to run parallel to, and
immediately below, the anchor's stock. Incidentally, the A rests
completely within the saltire, you could say it sits astride on
it. The anchor itself takes up about 1/3 of the flag's length and
almost completely fills up the flag's width. Funnel: black.
See also previous flag below, showing an earlier, pre-WWI version
(technically, a Hungarian house flag).
The blue in the 1930 flag could refer to Italy, whereas the
central emblem survived in a adapted form. I believe the firm
helped to make up a new company to be called Adriatica
di Navigazione.
Jan Mertens, 31 October 2003
In "All about Ships and Shipping", 1938 I found
about the same image, with minor differences: the legs of the
"A" are in blue; the anchor takes 2/3 flagheight, and
there's a yellow 5-pointed star in the top.
Caption: "Adria", Soc. Anon. di Nav. Marittima (I
sailed by one of their ships from Palermo to Tunis in 1965).
Jarig Bakker, 31 October 2003
I did see a very small yellow speck on the 1930 image... I
thought it was due to bad printing...
Jan Mertens, 31 October 2003
My deductions, which are only guesswork, are that it
originated as the Austro-Hungarian company shown by Griffin 1895
as Adriatic Hungarian Sea Navigation Co. or Adria-Hungarian Sea
Navigation Co., by Lloyds 1904, 1912 and Reed 1912 as Royal
Hungarian Sea Navigation Co. "Adria" Ltd., and by
Merchant Ships 1942 as the Hungarian company Adria Regia Ungarica
which after WWI became the Italian Adria company [i.e.
"Adria" Società Anonima di Navigazione Marittima]
which merged into Società Anonima di Navigazione
"Tirrenia" in 1938.
For the "Previous Flag" four sources show flags
differing slightly in each case. Griffin 1895 has the emblem in
black outline on the white oval comprising a foul anchor with
above it a crown and below a scroll. Lloyds 1904 shows basically
the same except it is in red and the crown looks more like a
mitre and touches the top of the anchor and there is a suggestion
(possibly imagination) that a red "A" surmounts the
anchor stock with the scroll shown as red with white print.
Lloyds 1912 shows a blue anchor but the crown and scroll look
more like printing blots or possibly misprinting of the anchor
cable [I am working from an actual edition which I assume is also
clearer than the web version], and I presume that fairly enough
they have been ignored when producing the previous flag shown as
what they actually are only becomes clear when comparing with the
other sources. Finally Reed
1912 gives a larger oval touching top and bottom which is
basically the same with the red "A" appearing to exist
and the scroll being red with black letters. None of the scrolls
can be read of course.
Neale Rosanoski, 24 March 2004
The item atop the emblem would be, most probably the St.
Stephen's crown (I think it is a safe guess), but I decided to
ignore it for the moment, just as I did with the scroll (that
would read, no doubt either "ADRIA" or
"FIUME"). Anyway, the details for the emblem were of
little significance for the books of the kind we use as sources
here (they were meant for recognizing purposes and not to be
fully faitful), and we would probably need to get hold of a real
flag or at least some other material containing the Adrial logo
(like the headers of writing paper or the time tables). Anyway,
it seems to me that the letter A and the cable was red, while the
anchor was blue.
Željko Heimer, 27 March 2004
Previous Flag ?
by Željko Heimer, 27 March 2004
After looking at the Lloyd's 1912 on the Net, I found the
drawing of the previous company of the same name (it's listed
under number 188 there).
Željko Heimer, 26 December 2003
The post 1918 flag of the S.A. di Navigazione Maritima
"Adria" - Fiume is blue with red saltire and overall an
anchor and a letter A topped with a yellow five-pointed star. My
image is prepaired based on Larousse Commercial, 1930 (thanks to
Jan Mertens) and "All about Ships and Shipping", 1938
(thanks to Jarig Bakker).
This only makes the assumption of the crown above the pre-1918
emblem more probably - the five-pointed "star of
freedom" was the emblem of Fiume that replaced the Hungarian
emblems "as a mater of default", if I am not much
mistaken.
Željko Heimer, 27 March 2004
by Jorge Candeias, 5 Febuary 1999
A white-red vertical bicolour with the lion of St. Marcus
centered.
Jorge Candeias, 5 Febuary 1999
The flag of this maritime company based in Venice , Italy (as
can see also from its flag) is based on
http://www.adriatica.it/inglese/index.html (defunct) and can be
seen here.
Dov Gutterman , 16 January 1999
Formed 1932 by the merger of several companies as Compagnia di
Navigazione Adriatica with subsequent changes leading to the
current title of Adriatica di Navigazione S.p.A.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 April 2003
