Last modified: 2005-09-17 by phil nelson
Keywords: house flag | shipping: sweden |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
See also:
![[Bohuslänska kuste]](../images/s/se~bohus.gif)
by Jarig Bakker,
9 August 2005
Source: http://kommandobryggan.se/Bryggan/Rederi.htm
Blue burgee, yellow disk
Jarig Bakker, 9 August 2005
![[Bohuslänska kuste]](../images/s/se~bonni.gif)
by Jarig Bakker,
9 August 2005
Source: http://kommandobryggan.se/Bryggan/Rederi.htm
Blue tapering swallowtail, yellow lion.
Jarig Bakker, 9 August 2005
![[Rederi Bore]](../images/s/se~bore.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 21
December 2004
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies,
compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Yellow flag, blue rectangle, with yellow diamond,
charged with blue Maltese cross.
Jarig Bakker, 21 December 2004
Broströms flag, pre-1998
![[Broströms]](../images/s/se~brost.gif)
image by Jorge Candeias
Broströms flag, post-1998
![[Broströms]](../images/s/se~bros1.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker
Source: Josef Nüsse
According to "A survey of mercantile houseflags & funnels" by J.L. Loughran (Wolverhampton, 1979) page 48:
"A constant theme in the marks of many of the constituent companies of the Brostrom group of Stockholm, is a pattern of red and blue bands, generally with a company initial in white. An example of this is the houseflag and funnel of Angfartygs A/B Tirfing, formed in 1890, and owners today of giant tankers and bulk carriers. Other companies with similar markings within the group are Brostroms Tender Service A/B, Rederi A/B Motortank, Svenska Orient linien and Angbats A/B Ferm, founded in 1883, and the oldest company in the group. [...] The red stripes are said to represent the metal castings forming the first cargoes of his vessels, and the blue stripes the Gota Alv, down which they beg