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House flags of Peruvian shipping companies

Empresa Naviera Santa SA
Compañía Peruana de Vapores S.A.
Naviera Universal SA Uniline

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Empresa Naviera Santa SA

image by Ivan Sache, 24 Mar 2001

Empresa Naviera Santa SA (Lima). White flag with two red triangles placed along the hoist and along the fly, but not touching each other. E (white), N (red), and S (white) are placed horizontally in the first triangle, main field, and second triangle, respectively. Image after a photo of an actual flag, from Joseph Nüsse’s website.
Ivan Sache, 24 Mar 2001

Compañía Peruana de Vapores S.A.

Josef Nuesse’s site has a flag with three letters: http://flags.seeleute.net/36.htm identifying the firm as Compañía Peruana de Vapores S.A. (CPV) and showing a real “Peruvian” sun on a broad lozenge. No doubt the little disk was meant to portray a sun in the 1930 versions. (Funnel: yellow with a black top, a red band with a yellow diamond separated from said top by a narrow yellow band.)

So the diamond seems to have become a broad lozenge. And one letter has been dropped, reflecting no doubt a change in the firm’s name. The line was founded in 1906, was really a state company, and closed down in 1990 as the government wanted to stimula