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N.V. Amsterdamse Olie Transport Maatschappij, Amsterdam - a most intriguing
flag: blue with a green disk bordered with a yellow cable, charged with
some device in yellow and red.
(description and explanation: beats me!)
Source: houseflagchart attached to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel",
April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 22 Oct 2003
N.V. Nederlandse Pacific Tankvaart Maatschappij, Den Haag.
houseflag: Blue with in the center a white disk, fimbriated black,
charged with a red five-pointed star, over which in black letters
"CALTEX".
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached
to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 20 Oct 2003
Nederlandse Pacific Tankvaart (Caltex). I think you will find that there
is no black edging to the white disc i.e. it is the normal Caltex Petroleum
Corporation flag. One of the misleading tricks is for some sources to separate
some colours by use of black lines and as they are not consistent with
this format one is left unsure whether the lines are part of the design
or not. The same comment applies to Shell Tankers.
Neal Rosanoski, 6 Dec 2003
Adapted from this
website: ESSO Tankvaart Maatschappij - white with the old Esso logo,
and in a vertical row at the hoist red letters ETM
Jarig Bakker, 23 Oct 2003
N.V. Petroleum Industrie Maatschappij, Den Haag.
Houseflag: white with on the hoist in a vertical row red capitals PIM;
in the fly a blue fimbriated oval with the firm's logo. (I searched on
the Internet but couldn't find a logo like that; however the houseflagchart
of "De Blauwe Wimpel", and "All about Ships & Shipping, 1959" have
the same lettering of the logo.
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached
to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 20 Oct 2003
Petroleum Industrie Maatschappij. Sources tend to offer conflicting
detail with dates and exact names but it seems that the company originated
around the 1890s as American Petroleum Co.,
which despite its name comprised a Dutch and a Belgian branch with a white
flag bearing a saltire of the respective national colours i.e. a triband
of the Dutch from upper hoist to lower fly and one of Belgium from lower
hoist to upper fly, this being surmounted by a white diamond which most
sources show as defined black but Talbot-Booth shows undefined, this diamond
bearing the black letters "APC". Reed 1912 shows the letters as being "A.P.Co."
with the 'o" enhanced and the dot under it but this seems incorrect. After
WW1 the company split into two, probably following the takeover by Standard
Oil Co. of New Jersey. The Belgian branch continued as American Petroleum
Co. Société Anonyme Belge until May 1939 when it became Standard
American Petroleum Co. S.A. and going by Talbot-Booth 1936 & 1937 it
continued to use this original flag. In 1940 its 2 ships were transferred
to the associate Panama Tanker Co.. Post WW2 they resumed becoming Esso
Standard (Belgium) S.A. and continued with the basic flag but replaced
the lettering with the blue "Esso". Around 1970 it became Esso Belgium
S.A. but ceased as shipowners in the middle 1990s and I do not know whether
it continued with its own flag up until then or whether it adopted that
of the Esso Group.
The Dutch branch continued initially as American
Petroleum Co. and adopted a new flag of white with a green bend bearing
a diamond charged with the black letters "APC" and later became Standard
Amerikaansche Petroleum N.V. when it adopted its first variation of
the Esso flag placing the red letters "SAPC" in vertical line in the hoist
before changing by or during WW2 to N.V. Petroleum Industrie Maatschappij.
At the end of the 1950s it became Esso Tankvaart Maatschappij with
another change of flag and continued in shipping until the latter 1980s.
Neal Rosanoski, 6 Dec 2003
Shell Tankers N.V., Den Haag; houseflag: red, with white disk, fimbriated
black, charged with a yellow shell.
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached
to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 20 Oct 2003
N.V. Standard-Vacuum Tankvaart Maatschappij, Den Haag
Houseflag: White with Blue disk, interrupted by a White horizontal
Band with narrow Blue stripes on top and below, charged with Red STANVAC.
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached
to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 15 Oct 2003