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by Ivan Sache, 13 September 2003
The flag of Amber Bay
Shipping Ltd. can be seen at <www.amberbay.lt>.
Jan Mertens, 23 August 2003
The house flag of the Lithuanian shipping company "Amber
Bay Shipping Ltd.", based in Klaipeda, is shown on the
company website, as reported by Jan Mertens
The flag is divided per saltire, the upper and lower triangles
being green and the two lateral triangles being white. A yellow
disc charged with a black V letter is placed in the middle of the
flag.
Klaipeda (formerly known as Memel) is the third biggest city in
Lithuania (c. 200,000 inhabitants) after Vilnius and Kaunas. It
is located on the Baltic Sea, on the opening of the Kurski Bay
(Kurskij zaliv). The Bay is nearly completely separated from the
Baltic Sea by a thin stripe of land (Kurskaja kosa). The southern
part of the Bay belongs to Russia (Kaliningrad enclave).
I wonder if Amber Bay could not be a nickname for the Kurski Bay,
since most yellow amber is to be found on the coasts of Poland,
Russia (Kaliningrad) and Lithuania.
The colours of the flag of the Amber Bay Shipping Ltd. might
recall the green and yellow stripes of the Lithuanian n
