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image by Ivan
Sache, 25 April 2021
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image by Ivan
Sache, 25 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Factor Steamship Co. Ltd. (Evans Fawcus) (#516, p. 61), a Newcastle-based
company, as white with a blue cross in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#26
Ivan
Sache, 25 April 2021
![[Falkland Islands Trading Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~s0963.gif)
by Phil Nelson, 11 April 2000
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963. This company is based in London.
Phil Nelson, 11 April 2000
![[Falmouth Oil Services Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~fol.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 20 November 2005
Falmouth Oil Services Ltd., Falmouth - white flag, red drop outlined blue, with
black & white bottom, between blue "FL".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 20 November 2005
![[Farrar, Groves & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hffar.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 22 April 2021
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "Farrar, Groves & Co. (Fargrove Steam Nav. Co., Ltd.)"
(#173, p. 44), a company based in London, as blue with a white diamond charged
with a red quatrefoil.
Ivan Sache, 3 April 2008
![[Farstad UK, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~farst.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 10 October 2005
Farstad UK, Ltd., Aberdeen - blue flag, white "F".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 October 2005
![[Fenay S.S. Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hffen.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Fenay
S.S. Co. (#1646, p. 115), a London-based shipping company, as horizontally
divided black-red with a thick light blue border, in canton of the black stripe,
a red cross.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#80
Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
![[John Fenwick & Son houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjfe.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "John Fenwick & Son" (#64, p. 40), a company based in
London, as
red with the white letters "JF&S.".
The Board of Trade Wreck
Report for "Sibylla", 1888, mentions John Fenwick as the ship's owner.
http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/15332.asp
Ivan Sache,
22 March 2008
I write with some further information on the shipping company John Fenwick
and Son listed in your section on shipping company flags, as this was the
company of my ancestor and I have undertaken some research on it recently.
The company was formed around the 1850s by Captain John Fenwick when he moved
from Newcastle to London. Captain Fenwick was an 'elder' of Trinity House,
London from which he gained the captain rank. The company operated the entire
time of its existence from 57 Gracechurch Street, London. When his sons John
Fenwick Fenwick and Nicholas Percival Fenwick came of age they both joined the
company as partners. They continued until gradually both the father and elder
brother John Fenwick Fenwick, retired from the business and Nicholas Fenwick
became sole manager until he retired some time following the first World War. I
presume that the company was wound up following this retirement. The father,
Captain John Fenwick was part of a shipping family in Newcastle and although I
have no proof as yet I believe that he had original support financially and such
from his father and brothers.
I have not yet discovered
what shipping business the company undertook, but I am supposing that it was
primarily mercantile rather than passenger and there are strong links in the
early years with the coal industry in Newcastle so perhaps they began by
shipping coal to London. I have discovered that there were at least two wrecks
which they defended in court and someone has traced some of the ships they owned
which often as not were built on Tyneside.
Micah Sicotte, 23 April
2020
![[Faversham Shipping houseflag]](../images/g/gb~faver.gif)
image by Rob
Raeside, 12 February 2012
The flag of Faversham shipping - divided per saltire white and blue, with F and
S written in the two white quarters.
Brian Cooper, 12 February 2012
Quoting the company's website:
"Faversham Ships was formed in 1994 with
the acquisition of the vessel 'Conformity'. A slow but steady approach to
development has been undertaken and the company now operate ten cargo vessels
ranging from 2350 to 3850mt dwt. This fleet comprises conventional & low air
draft coastal vessels (suitable for dangerous cargoes, loading / discharging
aground, highly manoeuvrable), providing a flexible range of ships types and
sizes."
The website includes several pictures of the company's vessels,
some of them with the house flag (more or less) visible. The flag is quartered
blue-white per saltire, with the black letters "F" and "S" in the upper and
lower white quarters, respectively.
Ivan Sache, 13 February 2012
![[Federal Steam Navigation Co. Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~fedrl.gif)
by Ivan Sache, 17 March 2004The flag is white with a red cross and a
blue rectangle superimposed on the cross.
Ivan Sache, 17 March 2004
The origin of the Federal Steam Navigation Company's house flag dates back to
1824 when the "Sir Edward Paget", one of Money Wigram's clippers, was anchored
off Spithead flying the St. George's Cross at the Main. That was, and still is,
the flag flown by an Admiral, and so a naval pinnace was sent by an H.M. frigate
to investigate. There being no Admiral on board, the Master was censured and
ordered to haul down his flag, but, thinking that his masthead looked bare, he
rehoisted the flag after a blue pocket handkerchief had been sewn on the middle
of the cross. These markings were adopted as the Company's house flag and were
also painted on each side of the funnel, which was otherwise red with a black
top.
Source:
http://www.rakaia.co.uk/downloads/nzscl-house-flags.pdf
Jan Mertens, 11 December 2004
Federal Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. The origins are given somewhat loosely by
various sources but the original flag appears to be that of
Green & Wigram who
were the owners of the "Sir Edward Paget" in 1824. This firm split in 1843 and Wigram took the flag with him to Money, Wigram & Sons whilst the successors of
Richard Green, Frederick Green & Co. used a version by placing the blue panel
behind the cross. Money Wigram & Sons came under the control of Allan Hughes of
Allport & Hughes, their loading brokers, in 1882 and he acquired their remaining
assets in 1884 after they sold off their ships. Allport & Hughes amalgamated in
1895 into Birt, Potter & Hughes who were financially and managerially involved
in the formation of the Federal Steam Navigation Co. in that year. According to
Talbot-Booth the flag was given to Federal in 1896, presumably by Hughes. The
legend of how the flag originated has another slightly different version of the
occasion with one of the officers said to have climbed to the masthead, cutting
off the tail of his blue coat and attaching it to the centre of the cross. [See
also Green & Wigram.]
Neale Rosanoski, 23 June 2005
The same flag is shown (#1695, p. 117) in Lloyd's Book of House Flags and
Funnels (1912).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#82
Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
