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Sache, 26 April 2021
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Sache, 26 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
John Bacon, Ltd. (#631, p. 67), a Liverpool-based company, as white with a blue
"B".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/32/
Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
![[W. Badcock houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfbad.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of W.
Badcock (#718, p. 71), a Cardiff-based company, as red with a white "B".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/36/
Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
![[Baltic Steamship Co Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~jbain.gif)
image
by Ivan Sache
James Baines & Co.: (UK): red swallowtail with a black? dot.
Ivan Sache, 5 September 2005
![[Bain, Gardner & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfbga.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 1 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Bain,
Gardner & Co. (#1497, p. 108), a Glasgow-based shipping company, as diagonally
divided (per bend) white-blue with the counter-colored letters "B" and "G" in
the respective triangles.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#73
Ivan Sache, 1 May 2021
![[Baker & Grant houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfb&g.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 28 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Baker
& Grant (#1042, p. 86), a Grimsby-based company, as horizontally divided
blue-red-blue, charged in the center with the white letters "B & G".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/51/
Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021
![[Balgownie Steam Trawl & Fishing Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfbgt.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
FV "Balmedie" (A113) was built in 1906 and owned by Balgownie Steam Trawl &
Fishing Co. based in Aberdeen. She was requisitioned in August 1914 and
converted to a minesweeper during the 1st World War. In service in
Mediterranean, sank following a collision in the Dardanelles, Turkey.
The
Wrecksite
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?236532
Lloyd's Book of House
Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Balgownie Steam Trawl & Fishing
Co. (#429, p. 57) as white with a red lion rampant.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#22
Ivan Sache, 24 April 2021
![[W.D.C. Balls & Sonhouseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfbal.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
W.D.C. Balls, a North Shield-based company, was already mentioned in 1878,
having purchased a ship "W.D.C. Ball" from John Redhead's shipyard (South
Shield).
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house
flag of W.D.C. Balls & Son (#1871, p. 126) as horizontally divided
blue-red-white-red-blue.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#91
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
![[Baltic Steamship Co Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~bsc.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, "the house flag of the Baltic Steamship Co. Ltd, Liverpool.
A blue swallow-tailed pennant with a white diamond bearing the red letter 'C'.
The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist
and is machine sewn. A rope and toggle is attached."
Jarig Bakker, 4 August 2004
Baltic Steamship Co. Ltd. Operated by A. Coker & Co. Ltd.
Neale Rosanoski, 19 May 2005
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the same house flag (#1865,
p. 125).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#90
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
![[Baltic Trading Co Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~btc.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, "the house flag of the Baltic Trading Co Ltd, London. A
black rectangular flag with a white diamond bearing a crossed hammer and torch
and the letters 'BT Co' in red. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre
bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn."
Jarig Bakker, 4 August 2004
![[Baltic Trading Co Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~b552.gif)
![[Baltic Trading Co Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~b347.gif)
images by Rob
Raeside
Baltic Trading Co. Ltd. Two previous flags are shown.
Talbot-Booth between 1937
and 1944 shows white with the red letters "BT" towards the respective sides and
enhanced over "C" and Brown 1943 and 1951 (Wedge, 1951) showing a
golden field with the same lettering but spread closer to chief and base
respectively
Neale Rosanoski, 19 May 2005.
![[C.R. Davidson & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfrbb.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "R.B. Ballantyne & Co." (#98, p. 41), a company based in
Glasgow (Scotland), as horizontally divided blue-white-blue with the blue
letters "R.B.B." in the middle of the white stripe.
Ivan Sache, 12 March 2008
![[Balle & Stansfield houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfb&s.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Balle
& Stansfield (#722, p. 71), a North Shields-based company, as red with a white
shield inscribing the red letters 'B & S".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/36/
Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
![[Baltic Trading Co Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~bamb.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, "the house flag of the Bamburgh Shipping Co. Ltd,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. A rectangular flag divided with pale blue over yellow and a
red castle in the centre. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre
bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn. A rope and two Inglefield
clips is attached.
The shipping line was founded in 1956 as a subsidiary of the Sheaf Steam
Shipping Co. who owned 51% of the capital, the remainder by the British Iron &
Steel Corporation. The company ran ore carriers and bulk carriers in the iron
ore trade with North Northumbrian names. The company was sold to Ben Line in
1976."
Bamburgh is a town in Northumberland, just south of the Scottish border.
Jarig Bakker, 4 August 2004
![[Belfast Steamship Co. Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~bank.gif)
image
by Jorge Candeias, 24 April 2002
This is a company that serves the South Pacific islands but is, at least originally, a
Scottish company. A couple of websites include information on this company, namely
www.freightertravel.hb.co.nz/shippinglines/bankline.htm
and ships.utopia.co.nz/Willowbank.html.
The Scottish origins are very evident in the flag, which could be described as a
Scottish flag with an arm of the cross removed and half of the field turned red. In other more vexillological words, it's a diagonal bicolour
(lower hoist - upper fly) red over blue with a white diagonal band throughout.
Jorge Candeias, 24 April 2002
The "Bank Line" is part of the "Andrew Weir Shipping Co. Ltd." founded in 1885 and
established in London. The "Bank Line"
was formed by Andrew Weir in 1905 and since that time has been operating regular
services between Europe and the South Pacific. Another subsidiary of
"Andrew Weir" is "McAndrews", a ship agency organization
that provides services throughout the Iberian Peninsula. Its regional offices
are located in Spain and Portugal. It was established in 1770 by William
McAndrews as a shipping and trading company.
Aingeru Astui Zarraga, 25 April 2002
The "Bank Line" is part of the "Andrew Weir Shipping Ltd." founded in 1885
and established in London. The "Bank Line" was formed by Andrew Weir in 1905 and
since that time has been operating regular services between Europe and the South
Pacific. Recently the Andrew Weir website noted that Andrew Weir Shipping (AWS)
has signed an agreement to sell The Bank Line (South Pacific) service to The
China Navigation Co Ltd (CNCo), the deepsea shipping arm of the Swire Group.
Phil Nelson, 12 October 2003
See also
National Maritime Museum example.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg,
3 May 2019
Bank Line. More accurately this is the flag of Andrew Weir Shipping Co. Ltd.
with Bank Line being an original alias, "bank" being the common suffix used for
their ship names, before the formation in 1905 of The Bank Line Ltd. under which
most of the ships were then registered. In 1989 this latter company changed name
to Andrew Weir Shipping Ltd. and thus the Bank Line "service" reference reverted
to its original position and it is this service only which has been sold to
China Navigation, the ships involved remaining under Weir as owners and managers
and likewise with the flag. During their operations Weir have operated several
service lines and one, the India-Africa Line which originated from the 1932
takeover of the India Natal Line, had its own flag which was blue with a narrow
diagonal biband of white over red from upper hoist to lower fly.
Neale Rosanoski, 9 February 2004
![[Andrew Weir Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~macaw.gif)
image located
by Aingeru Astui Zarraga, 26 April 2002
The logo with the crown and a pair of hands holding the ship belongs to "Andrew Weir Shipping Ltd.". The one of the McAndrews is most simple.
Larousse Commercial Illustré (1930) shows Andrew Weir & Co. (Bank Line),
London: diagonally divided red-blue (upward slant, lower hoist to upper fly), a
thin white stripe between upper hoist corner and lower fly corner), the stripe's
width being about one eight of flag height. The logo shown here of 'Andrew Weir
Shipping Co. Ltd.' and similar flag of 'Bank Line': see the
latter one for more information on the company names.
Jan Mertens, 28 May 2004
See also:
![[Shah Line houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfaba.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 10 April 2008
Everybody called him King Alf. He founded what was at one time Grimsby’s
biggest fleet of trawlers, became chairman of Cleethorpes Council and even
contested Grimsby’s Parliamentary seat. But Alfred Bannister was not always king
of all he surveyed – for his story began with him leaving school and heaving
bricks in a Cleethorpes brickyard.
However, young Alfred soon found the call
of the sea more compelling than building houses and by the time he was 14, he
was sailing as a cook on a fishing smack. In less than seven years, he was
skipper.
Two years later, he commanded his first trawler and in the
following 12 years became a joint skipper-owner. It was a job he loved – one
which saw him set up an unequalled (at the time) record by landing six catches
in one spectacular week. From Monday to Saturday, Bannister came in on the tide
landing his catch of “dogs” and sailing again on the same tide.
Then he took
the plunge and launched out on his own as trawler owner and fish merchant.
By the start of the First World War, he owned 33 trawlers and a prosperous
merchanting business. But he still loved the sea and partially fulfilled his
urge to return by having a yacht built, powered by a Rolls Royce engine which
was taken from his car.
The Bannister fleet suffered badly in the First World
War. In one week alone, five vessels were lost in North Sea minefields.
Bannister died in 1931 and his executors ran the business until 1945 when his
son Fred and nephew Jack took over.
In the mid-Fifties, the Bannister
fleet numbered nine ships – among them the "Andros" which was at the time the
oldest trawler sailing from Grimsby. It was built in 1899.
https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/nostalgia/king-alf-ruled-waves-940519
Grimsby Live, 19 December 2017
The link to Lloyd's has to be updated
to
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#14
Ivan Sache,
22 April 2021
![[Barclay, Curle & Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfbcu.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 1 May 2021
1818 The company was founded by Robert Barclay at Whiteinch, Glasgow, Scotland.
1861 Robert Barclay the founder died.
1880s The yard built its first steel
steamer and continued making steel barques. the yard also made steam yachts.
1884 Incorporated as a limited company Barclay Curle and Company.
1900s The
newer yard began making ever larger liners and cargo-liners, and liner companies
from around the world became regular customers.
1912 Swan, Hunter and Wigham
Richardson took over Barclay Curle and Co Ltd which became a subsidiary.
1968
The company ceased building ships in its Glasgow yard, but continued as a naval
engine builder (Sulzer Brothers) until transferring production to naval weapon
systems (Sea Dart/Wolf Missiles) in the late 70's, finally becoming an
industrial estate in the mid 80's. As part of the Seawind Group, the company
retains facilities in Birkenhead, Merseyside, and at Appledore, Devon.
Grace Guide's to British Industrial History
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Barclay,_Curle_and_Co
Lloyd's Book of
House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Barclay, Curle & Co.,
Ltd. (#1577, p. 112), a Glasgow-based shipping company, as blue with a white
lozenge touching the edges of the flag, in the center the red letters "BC".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#77
Ivan Sache, 1 May 2021
![[Charles Barrie & Son houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfden.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 30 April 2021
Barrie had come ashore in 1881 and quickly built up a fleet of sailing barques
trading to Calcutta. He doubled his fleet in 1883 by buying four sailing ships
at favourable prices from Donald Currie's Castle Mail Packets, Currie being keen
to shed his sailing ships in favour of steamers.
Barrie's four-masted barques,
"Lawhill" and "Juteopolis" were completed at the Caledon yard of W.B. Thompson &
Company in 1891 and 1892, and were unique in having their topmasts fitted to the
after side of the lower masts - a personal requirement of Captain Barrie.
Although a moderate value and stable product such as jute was still suited to
the typical hundred-day voyage of the sailing clippers, the opening of the Suez
Canal began to allow steamers onto the route. Indeed, the world's very first
Conference system was created in 1875 as the Calcutta Steam Traffic Conference,
in order to regulate freight rates and operators, and assure a degree of
protection for jute suppliers in Bengal and consumers in Britain.
Barrie sold
his two crack barques at the turn of the century in order to build up his Den
Line of Steamers. The first steamer was built for him locally by Gourlay
Brothers in 1893 and given the name "Invertay". She was of modest size and her
capacity was considerably less than most of his barques - clearly, she was a
trial with the new technology. However, times were changing and rather than
bales of raw jute coming into Dundee, Bengal was now exporting manufactured
gunnies, a higher value product that warranted passage via Suez aboard a
steamship. Barrie realized that he too had to shed his sailing ships if he was
going to keep pace with the trade, and he set about building up a fleet of
steamships. These all had the prefix "Den of"; the first, "Den of Airlie"
delivered in 1895, was designed with a comfortable and economical cruising speed
of 10.5 knots. The steamers all carried Indian crews working under Scottish
officers.
As time went on the Den Line diversified into line charters and
some of the "Dens" even had modest passenger facilities. By the Great War the
charter work had become dominant although Den Line was still involved with the
jute trade. It was during the war that the company foresaw the difficulties of a
relatively small shipowner specialising in long-distance voyages. As prices had
soared as the Great War progressed, the Barrie family took the opportunity to
sell its fleet and withdraw from shipowning. An attempt to return to shipowning
was made post-war, when the war reprisal "Santa Clara" was received and given
the old name "Den of Airlie". The venture was not a success and she was sold two
years later; However, the company remained an important shipping and forwarding
agency at Dundee for many years thereafter.
Nick Robins. Scotland and the
Sea: The Scottish Dimension in Maritime History
Lloyd's Book of House
Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Charles Barrie & Son. (Den
Line) (#1388, p. 103), as white with two blue horizontal stripes at the top and
bottom, charged in the center with a red swallow-tailed flag.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#68
Ivan Sache, 30 April 2021
![[T. Baskcomb houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfbkm.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 1 May 2021
A trawler belonging to T. Baskcomb was involved in the Cod Wars: "In August 1899
the Grimsby trawler 'Buzzard' was fined £80 for illegal fishing. The cargo of
fish and the gear were also confiscated. This placed the owner, Mr. Baskcomb,
out-of-pocket to the extent of £500".
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and
Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of T. Baskcomb (#1533, p. 109), a
Grimsby-based fishing company, as triangular, red with a white lozenge.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#74
Ivan Sache, 1 May 2021
![[Ed Bates & Sons houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfedb.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 9 April 2008
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "Ed Bates & Sons" (#213, p. 47), a company based in
Liverpool, as white with a thick red Maltese cross in the middle.
Ivan Sache,
9 April 2008
Edward Bates (d.1896) spent a number of years in India where he established
himself as a merchant in Bombay. In 1848 he left this business in charge of an
agent, returned to England and opened an office in Liverpool as an importer of
Indian produce. He also began a regular service to Bombay with chartered
vessels, and in 1850 he started building up a fleet of sailing ships. Trading
was soon extended to include first Calcutta and then the Far East and, when the
gold rush began, passenger ships sailed direct to Australia and returned via
India or South America.
In 1870 the firm was renamed Edward Bates and Sons.
Edward went to live in Hampshire and the eldest of his four sons, Edward Percy
Bates (d.1899), took over the management of the Liverpool office. The next year
Edward became an M.P. and a regular attendee at the Rouse; in 1886 he received a
baronetcy.
In earlier years Bates had bought steamers and converted them
into sailing vessels, but from 1870 the partners began adding steamers to their
fleet. They continued to acquire sailing ships as well up to 1884, but in 1886
they had a steel-screw steamer built to their own design, which heralded a
change of direction to a smaller number of large modern steamships engaged in
general tramping. The Bombay office was closed in 1898 and the business there
amalgamated with Killick Nixon & Co.
When Edward Percy Bates died in 1899 his
son Edward Bertram Bates (d.1903) succeeded to the title and the management of
the family business. He in turn was succeeded by Percy Elly Bates (1879-1946),
who in 1910 joined the board of the Cunard Company. In 1911 he and his two
brothers joined the board of Thomas & John Brocklebank and exchanged their
largest vessel for half of the Brocklebank family's shares.
By 1916 Sir
Percy Elly Bates was running the Commercial Services branch of the Ministry of
Shipping and his two brothers had gone to the war; as there was no one in the
office to manage their ships they sold them to Brocklebank's. This was the end
of their shipowning activities, but the partnership of Edward Bates and Sons
continued in business as merchants and private bankers. In 1916 Bates and
Brocklebank's both moved their offices into the new Cunard Building and in 1919
Cunard bought all the shares in the Brocklebank Line owned by the Brocklebank
and Bates families. Sir Percy Bates became deputy chairman of the Cunard
Shipping Co in 1922 and was chairman from 1930 until his death in 1946. His
brother Denis (1886-1959) became chairman of Brocklebank's when Sir Aubrey
Brocklebank died in 1929. The remaining Brocklebank shares (owned by the Anchor
Line) were bought by Cunard in 1940.
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/archive/objects/491988.html
National Maritime
Museum
Ivan Sache, 22 April 2021
![[George Bazeley & Sons, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfgba.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of George
Bazeley & Sons, Ltd. (#674, p. 69), a Penzance-based company, as white with a
red disc inscribing white "B".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/34/
Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
British Shipping lines: continued
