![[John Good & Sons houseflag]](../images/g/gb~jgood.gif)
image by Tim
Good, 29 November 2019
Last modified: 2022-04-16 by rob raeside
Keywords: gg&co | gillie blair | g | gb | gs | gysco | s | star: 8 points | gg |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
image by Tim
Good, 29 November 2019
John Good & Sons Ltd. continue trading to this day and have a long and
active association with the maritime world, dating back to 1813 when, as a boy
of 11, John Good joined the sailing brig ‘British Volunteer’ and began a career
at sea. In 1883 John Good & Sons obtained the company’s first liner agency for
the Finnish Steamship Company’s cargo and passenger services between Hull and
Finland.
The development of this new trade route meant the company
prospered, and in 1908 John Good & Sons became John Good & Sons Ltd. Although
two world wars hindered trade, and a series of national strikes did nothing to
help matters, John Good & Sons Ltd weathered the storm of bombings and economic
depression, gaining new agency business from Europe in the 1950s.
The
second half of the 20th century saw the company expand further and remain at the
forefront of the shipping industry in the UK. Shipping remains at the heart of
the activities of the John Good Group which has developed into one of the UK's
largest independent shipping, logistics & travel companies.
Website:
www.johngood.co.uk
Active Family
Members: John Ambrose Good & Timothy David Ambrose Good
Tim Good, 29
November 2019
Director, John Good & Sons
http://www.johngoodgroup.co.uk/services/shipping-logistics
The Matthew Good Foundation
Variant flags
![[John Good & Sons houseflag]](../images/g/gb~jgood2.jpg)
image by Tim
Good, 29 November 2019
![[John Good & Sons houseflag]](../images/g/gb~jgood3.jpg)
image by Tim
Good, 20 January 2020
A photograph of the only original House Flag left in existence. This is one
which would have flown from a masthead of one of the ships in the 1800s.
Tim Good, 20 January 2020
One of John Good & Sons subsidiaries in 1870 was Good Brothers & Co.
![[John Good & Sons houseflag]](../images/g/gb~jgood-1870.jpg)
image by Tim
Good, 14 March 2022
In the painting you can see the blue flag with the Stag flying at the masthead of the SS Carolina [extracted at original size in upper right]. Sadly the SS Carolina sunk in the North Atlantic only after 2 years service!
![[John Good & Sons houseflag]](../images/g/gb~jgood-1870a.jpg)
image by Tim
Good, 14 March 2022
It also appears on original documents. This was the House Flag at the time.
Tim
Good, 14 March 2022
The flag is white with a white canton fimbriated in black and charged with a
black pig's head. The letters GG & Co. (black), in a kind of cursive writing,
are placed in lower fly.
Source: 1911 Lloyd's flagbook, as illustrated at
The Mystic
Seaport Foundation.
Ivan Sache, 14 January 2004
![[George Gordon houseflag]](../images/g/gb~ggrdn.gif)
George Gordon & Co. The emblem is a boar's head [the boar was an early Royal
emblem in Scotland] rather than a pig's [see the attached scan from Lloyds] with the company being shown as a sailing ship operator. They
appear to have still been in existence in 1937 still being shown in Lloyds but with
no indication as to in what capacity.
Neale Rosanoski, 18 July 2005
![[Goole & West Riding S.S. Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfgwr.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of the
Goole & West Riging S.S. Co., Ltd. (#468, p. 59), a Goole-based company, as
blue, charged in the center with a white oval.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#24
Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
![[Gordon Steam Shipping Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfgor.gif)
image by Ivan Sache,
21 April 2021
The Unison Steam Shipping Co., Ltd. was wound up voluntarily on 9 October 1917.
SS "Karanja", belonging to the company, if not sold to other buyers, was to be
sold to the Gordon Steam Shipping Co?, "at a price to be determined by valuation
of independent ship valuers".
The two companies were then managed by Arthur
Wiener Gordon.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30332/page/10522/data.pdf
The
London Gazette, 12 October 1917
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels
(1912) shows the house flag of Gordon Steam Shipping Co., Ltd., also Unison
Steam Shipping Co., Ltd. (#42, p. 38) as horizontally divided (1:3:1)
blue-white-blue with a red "G" in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#3
Ivan Sache, 21 April 2021
![[Gotaas-Larsen Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~g-l.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 11 November 2005
Gotaas-Larsen Ltd., London; white swallowtail, blue circle enclosing blue
5-pointed star.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 11 November 2005
![[Goulandris Brothers houseflag]](../images/g/gb~goulg.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker
From Scott, R.M., The Caltex book of Flags and Funnels, Cape Town, Caltex Africa
Ltd. (1959).
Goulandris Brothers, Piraeus - actually a Greek company,
but with a London agency. A blue flag, white Greek "Gamma" ("G") on Greek
ships, but a letter G on ships under other than Greek flag.
However Brown 1951 [Wedge (1951)] shows for the
Goulandris brothers in their agency in London a blue flag with a Latin "G".
Jarig Bakker, 6 January 2005
![[NJ Goulandris houseflag]](../images/g/gb~gjn.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 15 February 2006
N.J. Goulandris, London - blue burgee, "G" around "NJ", all yellow.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 15 February 2006
image provided by Anita Russell, 12 November 2007
This image was found on a cup. It is N.J. Goulandris Ltd., one of the "London
Greeks". Most sources do not show an edging to the pennant but
U.S. Navy 1961 does except none
at the hoist. I presume that the dark look to the china image indicates a dark
blue.
Neale Rosanoski, 18 October 2008
![[Govan Shipbuilders Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~govan.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 Govan Shipbuilders Ltd. A rectangular
blue flag with a white saltire broken in the centre by the letters 'GS'. The
flag is made of a synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and logo. A
rope and toggle is attached."
Jarig Bakker, 13 August 2004
