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Sache, 27 April 2021
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image by Ivan
Sache, 27 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of W.R.
Corfield & Co. (#859, p. 77), a Cardiff-based company, as swallow-tailed,
horizontally divided white-red with a blue square canton charged with a white
star.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/42/
Ivan Sache, 27 April 2021
![[Currie Line houseflag]](../images/g/gb~c169.gif)
image by Rob Raeside
For details, see British & Continental S.S. Co. entry.
"Flags and Funnels of the British and Commonwealth
Merchant Fleets" shows this flag but the star is lighter and smaller,
reaching outside the cross.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 June 2006
![[Corinthian Shipping Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfcos.gif)
image by Ivan Sache,
28 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Corinthian Shipping Co., Ltd. (Richard Nicholson & Sons) (#982, p. 83), a
Liverpool-based company, as horizontally divided blue-white blue (2:3:2) with a
black "N" in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/48/
Ivan
Sache, 28 April 2021
![[James Cormack & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjco.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
James Cormack & Co., a Leith-based company, was mentioned in 1907, when its
steamer "Moravia" (1,388 tons) was lost on her way to Flensburg (Shetland Times,
23 February 1907).
Undoubtedly the largest proportionate loss of tonnage
arising out of the war was sustained by Messrs. James Cormack and Company. Their
pre-war fleet numbered eleven, and of these the war deprived them of ten. Their
trade was mainly conducted with Russian ports—Riga and Archangel, chiefly—and
this is one of those which up till now have shown no signs of an early revival.
The head of the firm is Mr. James Cormack, J.P., who is assisted in its
management by his two sons, Messrs. James Cormack, Jun., and A. C. Cormack.
The Story of Leith
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/leith/31.htm
Lloyd's Book of
House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of James Cormack & Co.
(#1863, p. 125) as red with a white cross, charged in the center with a white
square diamond inscribing a blue "C".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#90
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
![[Cornish Shipping Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~corsh.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 20 November 2005
Cornish Shipping Ltd., Plymouth - blue flag, in center three white "C"'s,
arranged triangularly.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 20 November 2005
![[Cornish Shipping Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~jcor.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache, 30 April 2021
Source:
http://www.red-duster.co.uk/CORRY.htm
A further source (listing routes and years of operation) is
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/corry.htm.
Robert Corry, originally of Co. Down (Ireland) founded a company in Belfast in
1826, active in timber imports from Canada and later sailing to India, Australia
and New Zealand, and South America. Relocated to London as a result of this
growing trade; by then the firm was already named Corry & Co. (about 1850).
During that period, the wooden Canadian-built ships were replaced by iron ones
built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast. Representing a new generation, James P. Corry
– grandson and name giver to the modified company name, created a baronet in
1885 - saw the acquisition of steamships starting in 1887 and the introduction
of refrigeration plants. In cooperation with Thomas Royden & Sons
and G.D. Tyser & Co., an emigrant service to Australia was established in 1912.
Two years later, Corry’s Star Line (named after a famous series of ships the
names of which started with ‘Star of…’), Royden (Indra Line), Tyser, and William
Milburn (Anglo-Australian Steam Navigation Co.) were to merge into the
Commonwealth & Dominion Line, later known as the Port Line.
![[Cornish Shipping Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~jcor1.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache, 30 April 2021
The house flag is white with two red horizontal edges (1:2:1) and a red heart in
the centre. I am convinced the heart is canting and long used as a mark before
the mentioned baronetcy (whatever the armorial bearings may have been). A much
smaller heart is shown by the on-line 1912
Lloyds Flags & Funnels, under No. 1386, last on that page, for ‘James P.
Corry & Co. (Star Line, Ltd.) London’.
Jan Mertens, 29 November 2005
![[John Cory & Sons houseflag]](../images/g/gb~jcs.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021Based on
Wedge 1926 John Cory & Sons, Limited, Cardiff -
blue, in the center red disk charged with white "C".
Jarig Bakker, 13 December 2004
"Flags and Funnels of the British and
Commonwealth Merchant Fleets" shows this flag with a serif letter C.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 June 2006
John Cory I (d. 1891) was born at Padstow, Cornwall. After being master of
coasting and foreign-going ships he came to Cardiff as a shipbroker and
shipowner in 1872, i.e. some years after Richard Cory (founder of the firm of
Cory Brothers) had arrived from Bideford, Devon, With his two sons, John and
James Herbert, he established the firm of John Cory, Sons and Co., which owned
at the time of his death twenty-one steamers with another three large steamers
being built on the Clyde.
John Cory II (1855-1931) was born at Padstow,
Cornwall. He came to Cardiff when a youth of 17 from London, where he had been
training as a merchant and ship-broker. He joined his father (John Cory I) and
his brother (Herbert) in their firm. He was the chairman of directors of the
Cardiff Channel Dry Docks and Pontoon Co., Ltd., and of the Mount Stuart Dry
Docks Ltd., on their amalgamation in February 1931; a director of some
thirty-six shipping and ship-repairing and trading companies, including John
Cory and Sons, Ltd.
Sir James Herbert Cory (1857-1933), 1st baronet, was
the younger son of John Cory I, and was born at Padstow. He was a shipowner,
director of thirty-five companies, including John Cory and Sons, Ltd., Cory's
Trading Co., Engineering and Dry Docks Cos., M.P. for Cardiff, 1915, and for
Cardiff South 1918-23; sheriff of Glamorgan 1913.
https://biography.wales/article/s-CORY-SON-1850
Dictionary of Welsh Biography
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels
(1912) shows the same house flag (#15, p. 37).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#2
Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
![[Cory & Strick (Steamers) houseflag]](../images/g/gb~crst.gif)
image located by Jan Mertens
From
http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/strick.html:
“Another Company called Cory & Strick (Steamers) Ltd was formed in 1928. Cory's
were long established in the coal trade and between 1928 - 31 they had six ships
built with names all similar to that of La
Tunisienne Steam. (…)
None of the Strick Companies could escape the depression in 1931 and many of
their vessels found their way to lay up in various rivers and ports. (…)
In September of 1939 the three Fleets of Strick comprised 25 vessels of which 12
being Strick Line (1923) Ltd, 1 being Shahristan Steamship, 6 being La
Tunisienne Steam Navigation and finally the remaining 6 with Cory & Strick. (…)
(In) 1943 Cory Strick had lost three of its six ships, two of the remaining were
sold and the last was transferred to La Tunisienne Steam bringing to an end the
Cory Strick association.”
The National Archives identify Cory & Strick as shipping agents based at
Plymouth.
Lifted from the funnel image and enlarged, the flag above is seemingly a black
lozenge with rounded sides delineating red fields (upper hoist and lower fly)
and blue ones (lower hoist and upper fly), respectively. The black centre may
symbolize the coal trade.
Jan Mertens, 27 January 2007
![[Cory Brothers houseflag]](../images/g/gb~cory.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 Cory Brothers, Cardiff. A rectangular
flag divided horizontally into white over green. A pink Welsh dragon is in the
centre holding two overlapping black diamonds with a white diamond in the centre
stitched with the inscription 'CORY BROTHERS'. 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. The dragon and black diamonds are a reference to their
coaling activities."
Jarig Bakker, 10 August 2004
![[Cory Colliers houseflag]](../images/g/gb~coryc.gif)
image
by Ivan Sache, 25 April 2021
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, "the house flag of Cory Colliers Ltd., London. A red,
rectangular flag with a white diamond 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."
Jarig Bakker, 10 August 2004
William Cory & Son. Originally in the coal
trade they became tug operators, taking over several other companies and
eventually consolidating under the control of Cory Towage Ltd. Around 1985 the
flag emblem was altered from a white diamond to a blue one edged white. They
were taken over and absorbed effective 20 February 2000 by Bureau Wijsmuller B.V.
Neale Rosanoski, 16 February 2004
![[Cory Towage Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~coryt.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 25 April 2021
Cory Towage Ltd., London - red flag, blue diamond bordered white.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 3 November 2005
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the same house flag (#535,
p. 62) for Wm. Cory & Sons.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#27
Ivan Sache, 25 April 2021
British Shipping lines: continued
