![[Diamantis Lemos Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~dile.gif)
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Bakker, 15 January 2006
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image by Jarig
Bakker, 15 January 2006
Diamantis Lemos Ltd., London - white flag bordered yellow; blue diamond.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 15 January 2006
![[Thomas Dixon & Sons, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfdix.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
Daniel Dixon was a highly successful timber merchant and ship-owner; from a
County Antrim family - variously of Cushendun, Ballycastle and Larne, in which
last Daniel's father Thomas had a shipping and timber business. The third son of
four, Daniel attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and then
followed into the family business, Thomas Dixon and Sons, becoming a partner in
1864. This business was quite considerable and said to be the largest timber
merchant in Ireland. In 1879 the company founded its own shipping firm, Irish
Shipowners Company, Ltd, known as the Lord Line, which operated services between
Belfast, Dublin, Cardiff and Baltimore, and also ran to the Gulf of Mexico and
South America. This shipping firm was wound up in 1917, at the height of the
First World War.
Dictionary of Ulster Bilbiography
http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/1809
Lord Line
(Irish Shipowners Co., Ltd), Belfast was formed by Thomas Dixon in 1879 and
operated services between Belfast, Dublin, Cardiff and Baltimore. They also
sailed to Gulf of Mexico and South American ports. In 1917 the company went into
liquidation and sold its two remaining ships to the Head Line (Ulster SS Co.).
The Lord Line ran between Baltimore and Belfast every ten days.
Wreck
Site
http://www.wrecksite.eu/ownerbuilderview.aspx?10883
Lloyd's Book of
House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Thomas Dixon & Sons, Ltd.
(#1642, p. 115)y, as red, charged in the middle with a white voided pentagram
inscribing a white "D".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#80
Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
![[Dixon, Robson & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfdir.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Dixon,
Robson & Co. (#422, p. 57), a Newcastle-based company, as blue with a white
lighthouse equipped with a red lamp.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#22
Ivan Sache, 24 April 2021
![[W.H. Dodds & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfwhd.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 22 April 2021
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "W.H. Doods & Co." (#269, p. 49), a company based in
Aberdeen
(Scotland), as blue with a broad white descending diagonal stripe
charged with a red "D" flanked by two red stars.
Ivan Sache, 3 April 2008
![[Dodwell & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~dodwl.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 Dodwell & Co. A white rectangular flag
with a red cross overall and red borders. A black saltire is in the canton. The
flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is
machine sewn. A rope is attached."
Jarig Bakker, 11 August 2004
See the Canadian Black Diamond S.S. Co. Ltd.
![[Dolphin Steam Fishing Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfdol.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Dolphin Steam Fishing Co., Ltd. (#409, p. 56), a Grimsby-based company, as
horizontally divided red-white-red.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#21
Ivan Sache, 24 April 2021
| Flag | Pennant |
![[Dominion Shipping Co. Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~domi1.gif) |
![[Dominion Shipping Co. Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~domi2.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 27 December 2005 |
The Liverpool Journal of Commerce chart for 1885 shows a Dominion S.S. Co. of
Liverpool, but managed by Flinn, Main and Montgomery. The flag is red with a
white diamond and a dark blue disc in the centre. In the 1909 chart from the
same publishers, the flag has changed to a pennant shape, but with the same
devices, and the F, M & M reference has been dropped.
Ian Sumner, 9 December 2005
The rectangular flag can be seen at
www.mysticseaport.org and a clearer image (top of page) at
www.theshipslist.com. The pennant can be seen at
www.mysticseaport.org, no. 1721 ‘Dominion Line, Liverpool’ in the on-line
1912 Lloyds Flags & Funnels and bigger, at (cigarette card)
www.gdfcartophily.co.uk.
A short history of this firm (using sources:
http://www.greatoceanliners.net/columbus_republic.html,
http://www.greatships.net/canada.html) follows:
"Dominion Line" is in fact the short name of the Liverpool & Mississippi
Steamship Co., founded 1870 and renamed Mississippi & Dominion Steamship Co. two
years later. These names expressed the firm's interest in a route linking
Liverpool and New Orleans but this was abandoned in favour of a Canadian route.
Not much goods and passenger transport here but livestock, mostly. Along with
other companies - the most famous being the
White Star Line - the Dominion Line was absorbed
by the International Mercantile Marine Co. in 1902. Reduced to a component in a
large business conglomerate, Dominion had to stop passenger transport in 1914
and in 1921 all its ships were allocated to IMM's Leyland Line.
From 1908 on a service using the combined name White Star-Dominion Line had been
active but in 1926 it was renamed the White Star Line Canadian Service. By then,
all Dominion's ships had been scrapped.
Link to a 1920 poster of this joint service, showing the two house flags:
http://www.internationalposter.com/wdetail.cfm?ImageName=UKL09462 and a
luggage sticker ca. 1910 giving precedence to the White Star pennant:
http://www.geocities.com/White_Star_Liners/WhiteStarSticker.jpg. When was
the pennant introduced? Lloyds 1912 shows it whereas the following timetable
issued Oct. 1903 still shows the rectangular house flag (see last photo):
http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/dom03i.htm. In view of the
above, including Ian's comments, we may suppose that the rectangular house flag
was replaced sometime between 1903 and 1909.
Jan Mertens, 23 December 2005
![[Don Fishing Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfdon.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 29 April 2008
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "Don Fishing Co., Ltd" (#322, p. 52), a company based in
Aberdeen
(Scotland), as white with a red saltire, not reaching the edges of
the flag.
The company, named after the river Don at the mouth of which
Old Aberdeen was built, is still involved in fishing. I have not found evidence
of a modern house flag.
"Don Fishing, part of the Aberdeen-based JW Holdings
group, is one of Scotland’s leading fishing and vessel management companies,
with offices in Aberdeen, Peterhead, Macduff, Wick, Scrabster and Kinlochbervie.
"We have interests in around 40 fishing vessels and we provide services to
those boats, plus another 80 or so in which we don’t have a share."
http://www.welcom.co.uk/casestudies/donfishing.htm
Welcom Software- Case
Studies - Don Fishing
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2008
![[Donald & Taylor houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfd&t.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 28 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Donald
& Taylor (#1058, p. 87), a Glasgow-based company, as horizontally divided
black-yellow-black.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/52/
Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021
![[Donaldson Line houseflag]](../images/g/gb~donal.gif)
image
by Ivan Sache, 24 April 2021
Donaldson Atlantic line, Ltd. had a red-white-blue vertical tricolor with a
blue D on the white stripe but above flew a white pennant with the thistle (the
related Donaldson Line, Ltd. flew the same flag, but not the pennant).
Source: Stewart (1953)
Ned Smith, 1 July 2003
According to "All about Ships & Shipping, E.P.Harnack (ed), 1938", There were three companies:
"Flags and Funnels of the British and
Commonwealth Merchant Fleets" shows this flag but with a wider white panel
and smaller "D".
Antonio Martins-Tuvalkin, 16 June 2006
![[Donaldson Line houseflag]](../images/g/gb~donag.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker
A similar flag, but with a gold D, was seen on a
pin and one without the letter D also on a large sailing vessel in
West Bay of Victoria Harbour (B.C., Canada).
Charla "Vikingwoman", 6 October 2003
The companies as detailed were managed by the owners who originated as
Donaldson Brothers around 1855, by 1938 becoming Donaldson Bros. & Black Ltd.
Griffin 1895 shows a tapered swallowtail with a black letter but nobody else
supports this version. There does seem to be a connection with the version with
the yellow D from the pin as T.S.S. Captain Cook was managed by them for the N.Z.
Government between 1951 and 1960 but I cannot find any comment on such a flag.
Whether it has any connection with the sighting on the sailing vessel depends on
what it was and when, as Donaldsons folded in the 1970s.
Neale Rosanoski, 9 January 2004
![[Donaldson Line houseflag]](../images/g/gb~doth.jpg)
image located by Jan Mertens,
31 July 2005The white pennant bearing a red and green thistle can
be seen at
www.merseysideviews.com. The same page shows a blue pennant bearing white
letters DSAL (Donaldson South American Line).
Jan Mertens, 31 July 2005
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag (#448, p.
58) with a blue, regular "D".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#23
Ivan Sache, 24 April 2021
![[The Dornoch Steamship Co. Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~dorno.gif)
image
by Al Fisher, 29 Jan 1999
The Dornoch Steamship Co. has a strikingly similar house flag to the Temple Steamship Co. Ltd..
Both house
flags are white with a red triangle. They differ only by the geometry of the
triangle. It seems to me very weird that two different companies could have had
so similar and potentially confusing house flags.
Ivan Sache, 28 February 2004
It sometimes helps to record the funnel marking as well as the house flag. A
white flag with a red triangle, point uppermost, was also the house flag of Lambert Brothers.
Their ships had black funnels with the red triangle on a white band.
David Prothero, 29 February 2004
The Dornoch Steamship Co. The reason for the so called similarity with the flags
of the Temple Steamship Co. Ltd. and Lambert Brothers
is because they are all one and the same and the correct allocation is to
Lambert Brothers who operated through various companies including Dornoch
Steamship and Temple Steamship until 1968 when they merged their shipping into
Scottish Ship Management Ltd.
Neale Rosanoski, 23 March 2005
![[Doughty Shipping Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfdou.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 11 April 2008
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "Doughty Shipping Co., Ltd." (#267, p. 49), a company
based in West Hartlepool, as white with the red letters "D.S.Co.LD.
Ivan Sache,
11 April 2008
In 1889/1900 the partnership of Maclean, Doughty & Co., was dissolved with
Henry Doughty taking four steamers with him. He formed Doughty & Co,. in 1900
and changed the name to Doughty Shipping Co. Ltd. in 1901. Doughty also managed
ships for the British Government during WW1. The company lost four steamers
during WW1 and went out of business in 1919.
Henry Doughty was born in
1859 at Middlesbrough. In the early 1890’s he volunteered and became captain in
the 4th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry and reached the rank of major. In
April 1908 he was given command of the newly organised Durham Royal Garrison
Artillery and retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in May 1909. Henry
joined the Board of Directors of Hartlepool Gas and Water Company in 1916.
Henry died on 13 July 1927 at Harrogate.
https://www.hhtandn.org/venues/4972/doughty-shipping-co-ltd
Hartlepool
History Then and Now
Ivan Sache, 22 April 2021
British Shipping lines: continued
