![[Manz Line]](../images/c/ca~manz.gif)
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image by Jorge Candeias
based upon an image by Don Ramsey
![[Manz Line]](../images/c/ca~manzb.gif)
image by Jorge Candeias
based upon an image in Brown (1951)
![[Manz Line]](../images/c/ca~manz.jpg)
image by David J. Wiebe, 12 December 2005
The MANZ Line was a Canadian company which was first registered in August 1936
when it took over the existing services of the Canadian Government Line, and it
ceased operations in July 1971.
Don Ramsey, 5 December 2001
The MANZ Line was first registered in August 1936 as a venture between Commonwealth and Dominion Line (later Port Line), the Ellerman and Bucknall Steamship Co., Ltd. and the New Zealand Shipping Company. The MANZ line took over operations of the Canadian government's commercial shipping company as well as 10 ships it had purchased. The company ran from Canada to New Zealand and Australia, first only from western ports and later from eastern Canadian ports.
The flag was presented to the company by Sir Thomas Royden, a director of Port Line who presented the company with the flag of the former Royden Line with a maple leaf in the center diamond.
Although service was interrupted during World War II, it resumed in 1945. In
1947, it purchased its only new vessel since formed in 1936. The company discontinued
service in July, 1971.
Information abstracted from "End of the MANZ Line" by Ian Farquhar, published
in Sea Breezes in March 1972 and forwarded to FOTW by Don Ramsey.
![[Misener Holdings]](../images/c/ca~misho.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 13 December 2005St. Catherine's, Ont. - blue flag; at hoist three crowns, at fly italic "M",
all yellow.
Jarig Bakker, 13 December 2005
![[Montship Lines Ltd.]](../images/c/ca~mntsp.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 January 2014
Montship Lines Ltd.
The company was located in Montreal. The houseflag was
quaetered into red and blue. In the centre was a white disc contweining a blue
initial “M”.
Source: US Navy Hydrographic Office: “Merchant Marine House
Flags and Stack Insignia”, 1st edition 1961; p.3-8
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 January 2014
First Version
![[first N.M. Peterson flag]](../images/c/ca~pat1.jpg)
contributed by Jan Mertens, 27 September 2005
Source:
Boatnerd
Two house flags shown together at Boatnerd: see second row, third picture (earlier version) and same row, first picture (later version):
Both are attached, small and flipped, as
The first version is a white triangular flag with a rounded end, near the hoist is a – rather small - red diamond bearing a white ‘P’. The second version replaces the red diamond by a larger black one, bordered red, and also bearing a white ‘P’. No serifs in both cases. (And no idea when the design was changed.)
Second Version
![[second N.M. Peterson flag]](../images/c/ca~pat2.jpg)
contributed by Jan Mertens, 27 September 2005
Source:
Boatnerd
Photos showing second version:
A bit of history gleaned from these pages:
The grain-handling Paterson firm (N.M. Paterson & Sons, Ltd in full) was founded in 1908, growing into a business addressing all aspects of grain handling, storage, transport, etc. Although transportation on the Great Lakes had started already in 1915, 1926 saw the birth of Paterson Steamships Ltd when 11 steamers were bought from Interlake Steamship. The fleet continued to expand but suffered from war losses as several commissioned vessels were sunk during WWII. Eventually Paterson was to become the second largest fleet on the Great Lakes (1959). Finally in March, 2002 Canada Steamship bought the remaining Paterson ships.
The Paterson seat proper was – and is – Winnipeg while the fleet division was based in Thunder Bay.
The firm has diversified but is of course still food oriented (and family owned)
only the fleet is a thing of the past.
Jan Mertens, 27 September 2005
![[first N.M. Peterson flag]](../images/c/ca~p442a.gif)
![[first N.M. Peterson flag]](../images/c/ca~p88a.gif)
images contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 25 November 2008
Two other versions have been shown. Stewart
1953 [ste53] & 1957 has the white pennant bearing a red diamond frame
enclosing a red "P" (see p88a). This may have resulted from such a logo which
used to appear on their old website. In much the same way the Know Your Ships
2000 edition has a very narrow white fimbriation between the black inner diamond
and its red border as shown in the 2nd version shown by Jan (see p442a). In this
case I suspect that a logo, which is displayed on the white superstructure, has
been the source although another variety is displayed on the same source vessel
Mantadoc where yet another logo
on the black hull varies by having the addition of an extra white
border outlining the red. With the ships all now gone it does not
matter but I note from their current website that yet another version
is now being used. Several ship photos appear at first glance appear
to be flying rectangle versions of the flag but presumably these are
weather worn and have lost their tails. All are too small to be sure
of the diamond colour detail except that black and red do seem to be
involved.
Neale Rosanoski, 25 November 2008
![[Nordic Canadian Lines]](../images/c/ca~nats.gif)
image by
Neale Rosanoski, 29 December 2011
Nordic American Tanker Shipping Ltd. in
1995 show a similar logo panel on the website http://www.nat.bm to Nordic Canadian
(below)
although substituting American colours in the hoist in lieu of Canadian. As the image does not move whether it represents
a flag or not is debatable [the panel does appear on their funnels].
Neale Rosanoski, 29 December 2011
![[Nordic Canadian Lines]](../images/c/ca~ncsl.gif)
image by Jorge Candeias
Headquartered in: Nova Scotia .
Type of ships: Tanker
The source of the image above was
http://www.ncship.com (between 2.12.1998 and 16.4.2000) and shows on site as a moving image without a flag pole. The
correct name of the company is Nordic Canadian Shipping Ltd. and it
appears to be still operating being involved in oil and gas exploration
and development. At the stage that the website was operated they were
part of Canada's first offshore oil production and were involved with the
tankers "Nordic Apollo" and "Nordic Laurita" although the site says that
the vessels were actually chartered to PanCanadian Petroleum. Ownership
of the two ships was as part of Ugland International Holdings plc of the
Cayman Islands through their subsidiary Ugland Nordic Shipping ASA of
Norway and who prior to 1997 had been called Nordic American Shipping ASA
which had formed the subsidiary Nordic American Tanker Shipping Ltd. in
1995 and who show a similar logo panel on the website
http://www.nat.bm
although substituting American colours in the hoist in lieu of Canadian
[see ca~ncs-us.gif] and as the image does not move whether it represents
a flag or not is debatable [the panel does appear on their funnels].
Neale Rosanoski, 29 December 2011
![[Northumberland Ferries Limited]](../images/c/ca~nfl.jpg)
image by Darrell Neuman, 25 September 2016
Northumberland Ferries Limited
- flag displayed in a window in downtown
Charlottetown, PEI.
Northumberland Ferries sails from Caribou Point, Nova
Scotia to Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island.
Darrell Neuman, 25
September 2016
![[Northland Navigation Company]](../images/c/ca~nnc.gif)
image by Phil Nelson
Started in 1944 as the British Columbia Steamship
Company. In 1954, it changed its name and houseflag. It purchased Union Steamship
in 1959. The company discontinued service in 1976.
Phil Nelson, 29 April 2000
![[Pickford & Black]](../images/c/ca~pkfdb.gif)
image by Rob Raeside, 10 December 2013
Flag based on the Mystic Seaport museum Lloyds Book of Flags and Funnels
search page:
http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/ImPage.cfm?BibID=11061&ChapterId=8
(p. 66). Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Eric Odense, 8 December
2013
![[Provmar Fuels Inc.]](../images/c/ca~provm.jpg)
contributed by Jan Mertens, 9 October 2005
This company is listed as a part of Upper Lakes Group Inc. and based in Hamilton, Ontario. Homepage: www.provmar.com.
The company was founded in 1984 as a joint venture of Upper Lakes Shipping and Canada Steamship Lines in view of marine bunkering and based at Hamilton. Details are at the company history page.
The site shows a (possible) house flag or flagoid: A turquoise swallowtail
bears the firm’s name in red capital letters (PROVMAR / FUELS / INC.), the ‘P’
being larger than the others.
Jan Mertens, 9 October 2005
![[Purvis Marine Ltd.]](../images/c/ca~pml2.gif)
contributed by António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 August 2008PML or Purvis Marine Ltd, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario.
Purvis Marine Limited has been in the marine business since 1967. The company now, after 33 years of aggressive acquisitions, owns and operates one of the larger tug and barge fleets on the Great Lakes with a wide variety of floating plant…” meaning tugboats, barges, a cargo ship and – last but not least – a floating dry dock. The firm has a diver and stevedoring crew.
The vessels are in the ‘Our Fleet’ section (right menu), especially the funnel of the tug ‘Avenger IV’. As to preserving the past, see ‘Other Info’ explaining what PML has accomplished e.g. restoring ships.
The logo company site shows the company name beneath
the company initials ‘PML’, serifed, inside a double cartouche (it is also
shown in contrasting colours, mainly white, on dark blue funnels). The
Great Lakes chart shows a blue flag with these initials, in white, inside a
single cartouche the colour of which seems also white.
Jan Mertens, 20 November 2006
![[Les Remorqueurs de Quebec Ltee]](../images/c/ca~rql.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 7 November 2005
Source: Brown’s Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of
the World, 1995 [lgr95]
Montreal - red flag, white oval, black "Q". (Note:
"Remorqueurs" means "tuggers").
Jarig Bakker, 7 November 2005
[Editorial Note: In Brown [lgr95] the name is incorrectly listed as "Les Remorqueurs de Quebec Ltee"]
![[Rigel Shipping Canada]](../images/c/ca~rigl.jpg)
contributed by Jan Mertens, 20 November 2006
Small: Rigel Shipping Canada
Shediac, New Brunswick
The company website states that this Canadian domiciled and registered firm is a joint venture with Rigel Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG of Bremen, Germany, the aim being to provide tanker shipping to Canadian petroleum and related firms.
Founded in 1993, the Canadian Rigel operates three double-hulled tankers (ice-strengthened). Interestingly, in the beginning of this year the company contemplated opening a ferry route between New Brunswick and Labrador but the plan fell through.
Found on the net as a drawing for the house flag (for a photo present on the company site: click top menu ‘Company’ then ‘News’). Quarterly divided: left and right triangles red, upper triangle black, lower triangle blue; a white black-rimmed disk in the centre bearing a white black-rimmed six-pointed star enclosing a black initial ‘R’.
The ‘R’ is really italic as seen on the
funnel
Jan Mertens, 20 November 2006
