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![[Jan]](../images/s/se~jan.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 15 August 2005
Source: http://kommandobryggan.se/Bryggan/Rederi.htm
blue flag, white fly diagonal, at hoist top a white
5-pointed star.
Jarig Bakker, 15 August 2005
![[Joh Gorthon]](../images/s/se~gorth.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker
Joh Gorthon & Gorthon, O. Sten & Gorthon, Stig.: White with a blue circle in the centre containing two intertwined yellow stylised Gs (one reversed). I'd guess by the name, colours, and design that this is Swedish. Gorthon Rederier - Lloyd's description: White Ground; blue disc with yellow device based on G.
I have not found any source which shows the horizontal white line in the base on the emblem which is, according to Talbot-Booth, the same as the cipher of King Olav. Formed 1921 and according to Lloyds known as Gorthons Rederi A/B until 1987 when it became Gorthon Lines A/B, changing in 1995 to B&N Gorthon Lines A/B and then changing back again in 1997 to Gorthon Lines A/B. However post WW2 they themselves