![[Thos. and Jon Brocklebank Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~brock.gif)
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by Ivan Sache, 12 March 2006from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963
![[Thos. and Jon Brocklebank Ltd former houseflag]](../images/g/gb~broc1.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021
T & J Brocklebank, Ltd. was founded about 1770. Their first
houseflag was altered in 1820 to the one which flies today at the foremast. The
reason usually given for this is that many of Brocklebank's early vessels were
privateers, whose mainmasts were reserved for the letters-of-marque pennant, so
the houseflag was relegated to the fore. In books it is asserted that
Brocklebank's is the only houseflag worn thus - however Sandbach, Tinne & Co.
did it too.
Source: Loughran (1979) "A Survey of Mercantile Houseflags
& Funnels"
Jarig Bakker, 28 February 2004
See also: British Privateers
Larousse Commercial Illustré (1930) shows Anchor Brocklebank &
Well Lines, Liverpool: vertically divided white-blue, white nearest the hoist.
On FOTW-ws under 'Thos. and Jon Brocklebank Ltd'. The company name Larousse
gives makes more sense if we know that Cunard purchased Brocklebank and Anchor
Line in 1911, followed by the Well Line in 1916.
Jan Mertens, 28 May 2004
The business was founded by Daniel Brocklebank,
who after an early career as a New England shipbuilder and British merchant
retired to shore as a ship owner and shipbuilder, based in Whitehaven. In 1800
he passed the business on to his sons Thomas and John, (the firm was re-named
Thomas & John Brocklebank in 1801). It originally traded with the Americas, but
after the ending of the East India Company's monopoly of trade with India, the
company opened routes to the subcontinent in 1815 and later to the Far East,
starting services to China in 1860. In 1819 Thomas Brocklebank opened an office
in Liverpool which city became the company's main base. The company acquired its
first steamer in 1889, but operated sailing ships until 1906. By this time the
firm were mainly ship owners. In 1919 Cunard acquired the majority holding of
Brocklebank shares, the rest was held by Anchor Lines; however the composition
of the board remained unchanged. The company sustained heavy losses in the First
and Second World Wars and was hit by the trade restrictions that followed the
independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. The temporary closure of the Suez
Canal and containerisation led to the end of trade to India. Cunard sold the two
last liveried Brocklebank ships in 1983 and this marked the end of the company
as a separate entity.
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/179.html
National
Maritime Museum
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the
same house flag (#974, p. 83).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/48/
Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021
![[Bromley Shipping plc houseflag]](../images/g/gb~bsplc.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 11 November 2005
Bromley Shipping plc, Bromley - blue flag bordered white; stylized white "BS".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 11 November 2005
![[Bromport Steamship Company, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~bromp.gif)
image by
Jarig Bakker
Bromport Steamship Company, Limited, Liverpool - blue flag, white 6-pointed
contoured star, with in center white "L", in all corners white "BSCL".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies [Wedge 1926]
Jarig Bakker, 20 February 2005
Bromport Steamship Co. Ltd. The company, which operated from 1916 to 1923, was a
subsidiary of Lever Brothers which presumably accounts for the extra "L".
Neale Rosanoski, 19 May 2005
![[Broomhill Collieries, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfbcl.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 29 April 2021
Several collieries existed in the coastal area near Amble. In 1783 there was a
“colliery and seam of coal” situated on the rocks at Amble Point. A shaft was
sunk in the early 1800s in Hauxley township and named Radcliffe. It closed in
1892 when flooding and fire occured. Togston pit opened a few years later with a
line connecting it to the Radcliffe Colliery line. Another shaft was sunk in
1900, a mile from the original pit at Radcliffe, and named Newburgh. At that
time, the pits, the railways between Broomhill (where another mine existed) and
the coal staithes, as well as Amble harbour and the ships, were taken under new
ownership and the entire business renamed Broomhill Collieries.
The
engines or “tankies” operating on the mineral line from Broomhill to the
staithes at Amble harbour were named after Northumbrian rivers including the
Coquet, and the coal boats or “colliers” were named after local villages such as
Togston. Newburgh closed in the 1920s due to severe flooding. A shaft sunk at
Hauxley in 1926 survived until the late 1960s and some miners were transferred
to Shilbottle and Whittle. A drift mine sunk at Radcliffe closed in 1962. With
coal production in decline, the last shipment left Amble harbour in the late
1960s, followed by the demolition of the staithes.
https://bailiffgatecollections.co.uk/about-us/our-area/coal-mining/
Bailiffgate Collections
The company was registered on 1 November 1900,
for the purpose of taking over as going concerns the businesses of three other
companies, the Broomhill Coal Company (Limited), the Radcliffe Coal Company
(Limited), the steamers of the Broomhill Shipping Company (Limited), and of
purchasing all the debentures of the Warkworth Harbour Commissioners.
https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Broomhill_Collieries
The Stock Exchange
Year Book 1908
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the
house flag of Broomhill Collieries, Ltd. (#1143, p. 91) as blue with the white
letters "B.C.L.".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#56
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2021
![[Joseph Brown & Sonhouseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjbr.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 27 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Joseph
Brown & Son (Northfield S.S. Co., Ltd) (#856, p. 77), a Liverpool-based company,
as white with a blue cross, charged in the center with a red disc inscribing a
white smaller disc.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/42/
Ivan Sache, 27 April 2021
![[Wm. Brown, Atkinson & Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfbat.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Wm.
Brown, Atkinson & Co., Ltd. (Sea Steamship Co., Ltd.) (#481, p. 59), a
Hull-based company, as triangular, vertically divided in 16 stripes, in turn
blue and white.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#24
Ivan Sache, 24 April 2021
![[John Bruce & Co houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfbru.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
"Mr John Bruce, who has died at his home in Helensburgh, was senior partner
of John Bruce and Co. (Shipping) Ltd., shipowners, Glasgow, until his retirement
a few months ago. He was 69.
Mr Bruce, a native of Helensburgh, was a former
chairman of the Clyde Steamship Insurance Association; a director of the Glasgow
and Clyde Shipowners' Association, the Glasgow Shipowners' Benevolent
Association; and the North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association. He
was also a member of the committee of Lloyds and the Chamber of Shipping. [...]
"The Glasgow Herald", 4 July 1961
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19610704&id=JjM1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=HqYLAAAAIBAJ&pg=6045,395790
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
John Bruce & Co. (#1639, p. 115) as blue, charged in the center with a white
saltire not reaching the corners of the flag.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#80
Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
![[Brussels S.S. Co.. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~bruss.gif)
image by
James Dignan
Based on Sampson (1957)
James Dignan, 11 October 2003
This company was registered in London (Stewart & Styring,
1963). In 1954 the company appears to have had two coastal vessels: the
"City of Brussels" and the "City of London." But this is different from the
other more famous "City of Brussels" which was the first ship to cross the
Atlantic in 8 days (different owner, different era).
Phil Nelson, 12 October 2003
British Shipping lines: continued
