![[John Latsis (London) Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~latsi.gif)
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Bakker, 25 December 2005
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image by Jarig
Bakker, 25 December 2005
John Latsis (London) Ltd., London - blue burgee, white cross bordered yellow;
red "JL".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 25 December 2005
![[La Tunisienne houseflag]](../images/g/gb~latu.gif)
image
by Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021
From
http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/indexframe.html:
“In association with Jules Mesnier, Frank Strick formed another new company La
Tunisienne Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. in 1909. The trade was coal out and iron
ore back and the ships were named after places in Africa ending in 'A'. The
Mokta Company of Paris was involved in the financing of some of the Fleet hence
the funnel carried an 'M' over Stricks red, white and blue.” The website
mentions that as La Tunisienne was only involved in the (Persian) Gulf trade by
1912, the name no longer fit “and so it merged with La Commerciale Steam
Navigation Co Ltd on the 1st of January 1913 becoming Strick Line Ltd”.
The funnel and house flag are shown by the
MNO site but a
better picture seems to be the one offered by the on-line 1912 Lloyds Flags &
Funnels. See No. 1032 ‘La Tunisienne S.S. Co. Ltd. (F.G. Strick & Co., Ltd.),
London’ on
this page. The flag has a white diamond touching the flag’s edges and
defined by four triangles: the upper ones red (hoist) and blue (fly), the lower
ones counterchanged. A large red initial ‘M’ (without serifs) appears in the
diamond. The use of French (and British) colours and also the ‘M’ are no
surprise given the firm’s origin.
Jan Mertens, 23 January 2007
![[Law, Leslie & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hflle.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
Norman Alexander Leslie was born in 1870, the son of John Leslie. [...] He
was a partner in the firm of Law, Leslie and Co, a director of George Thompson
and Co Ltd, and a well-known member of the Baltic Exchange. During the First
World War, he volunteered for service in the Transport Department of the
Admiralty, 1915-16. He transferred to the newly formed Ministry of Shipping,
where he was involved in inaugurating the convoy system, 1917-18. He died on 23
October 1945.
The Papers of Sir Norman Leslie
http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FLESL
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Law,
Leslie & Co. (#1640, p. 115), a London-based shipping company, as red, charged
in the center with four mirrored white "Ls" forming a cross voided.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#80
Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
![[Thos. Law & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hftla.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Thos.
Law & Co. (#1753, p. 120), a Glasgow-based shipping company, as quartered red
and blue by a white saltire.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#85
Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
![[Lawson-Batey Tugs Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~lbt.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 10 January 2006
Lawson-Batey Tugs Ltd., South Shields - yellow flag, blue cross formy.
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 January 2006
![[Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet Co. Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~lhhsp.gif)
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National Maritime Museum, "the house flag of Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet Co. Ltd. A blue swallow-tailed burgee with red borders at the upper and lower edge. At the hoist end there is a white saltire above a white cross. 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."
Brown (1951) lists this as "Currie Line, Ltd.,
London". The Observer Book of Ships (1973) has: "Currie Line Ltd. (Walter
Runciman & Co. Ltd), Leith - ships ending with -land. Associated with a German
company, also Currie Line painted on hull. Black/Red".
Jarig Bakker, 19 August 2004
The company was managed by James Currie & Co. The company was located in Leith. It is a blue
swallow tail pennant with red stripes at the top- and bottom edge. At the hoist there are a
white saltire above a white Greek cross (or an “x” above a plus).See also Hugo und van Emmerik.
Klaus-Michael Schneider,
14 May 2012
Lloyd's Book
of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the same house flag (#482, p. 59) but
with slanted upper and lower edges.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#24
Ivan Sache, 24 April 2021
![[Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet Co. Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~lhhs1.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
The Leith Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet Co. Ltd, (J. Currie & Co Leith) used a
similar flag with a red border all the way round - see Lloyd's code of
distinguishing flags of the steamship owners of the United Kingdom' 1882. In
1862 James Currie came to work for the Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet Co.
and was responsible for opening up a series of new trade routes. In 1866 James
and his brother Donald formed Donald Currie & Co. - the first incarnation of the
'Currie line' Donald was responsible in 1900, for the amalgamation of the Union
Line and his company the Castle Line into the Union-Castle line, two companies
had formerly been in competition with each other on the route to South Africa.
In spite of an increase world trade, Donald Currie & Co ceased to operate in
1919, and transferred its fleet to the Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet
Company. In 1933 the Isaac line was acquired and this opened up new trade routes
in Europe and the Western Mediterranean. In 1940 the name Leith, Hull & Hamburg
Steam Packet Co. was deemed inappropriate, and the 'Currie Line' came into
being. In 1969 the Currie Line was acquired by Walter Runciman & Co (a division
of Anchor Line Ship Management). In 1976 the Anchor line Ltd split into five
divisions, and one of them was named the 'Currie Line Ltd.' who became the
division for European services and trade in Europe. The Currie line Ltd ceased
trading in 2004 (Other divisions were still active in 2005).
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/292.html
National
Maritime Museum
Ivan Sache, 24 April 2021
![[Imperial S.S. Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfisf.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 1 May 2021
The Imperial Steam Fishing Co., Ltd. wound up voluntarily on 4 November 1919,
as did the same day the Hellyers' Steam Fishing Co., the two companies being
managed by Owen S. Hellyer (The London Gazette, 7 November 1919).
Lloyd's
Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Imperial Steam
Fishing Co., Ltd. (#1472, p. 107), a Hull-based fishing company, as yellow, in
the middle a thick blue cross patty, over the cross a white oval bordered in red
and charged with a red crown.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#72
Ivan Sache, 1 May 2021
![[Lawson Steam Tugboat Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hflst.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 25 April 2021
Lawson Steam Tugboat Co., Ltd., a South Shields-based shipping company, was
self-styled the "Black Diamond Line of Tugs". The company operated the
"Admiral", "Africa", "Champion", "Champion-2", "Comet", "Criterion", "Cruyier",
"Crusader", "Expert", "Expert-2", "Flying Foam", "Ganges", "Guide", "Hercules",
"Homer", "Joffre", "Lion" ,"Lizard" "Mentor", "Monarch", "Nestor", "Patriot",
"Plover", "Powerful", "Privateer", "Royal Briton", "Scotia", "Scotia-2",
"Scotland", "Sir Walter Raleigh", "Taliesin", "Ulysses", "Vivid", "Wild Rose"
and "William" tugs, all of them launched between 1857 and 1916.
http://www.tynetugs.co.uk/Owner-Lawson.html
Tyne Tugs and Tug Builders
In the 1910s, only "Comet", "Cruiser", "Hercules", "Mentor", "Nestor",
"Plover", "Royal Briton", "Taliesin" and "Ulysses" were still sailing.
https://southtynesidehistory.co.uk/archive/printed-materials/business-cards/595462-business-card-for-lawson-steam-tug-boat-co-ltd?
Lawson business card
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of Lawson Steam Tugboat Co., Ltd. (#1480, p. 107), a South
Shields-based shipping company, as white, in the center a black diamond placed
vertically between the red letters "J" and "L".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#72
Ivan
Sache, 25 April 2021
![[F. Le Boulanger houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hflea.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 25 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Leach
& Co., Ltd. (#554, p. 63), a London-based company, as blue with a white diamond
inscribing a red "L".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/28/
Ivan
Sache, 25 April 2021
![[F. Le Boulanger houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfleb.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
From 1919, Mr F. [Francis] Le Boulanger, who many Mumbles older residents still
remember, lived there. A notable Mumbles figure, he was a ship-owner,
ship-broker and coal exporter. A friend of mine, Miss Hill in Mumbles, remembers
her brother-in-law Will Eynon, who lived in one of the cottages at Dickslade all
his life. He told how, as a boy, he used to meet Mr Le Boulanger coming down the
hill from his house each morning and would carry his ‘Gladstone’ down the steps
at Dickslade and over to the Mumbles Train, on which he travelled each morning
to travel to his office in Swansea. When he returned at night, Will would carry
his ‘Gladstone’ back up the steps and receive a penny for his help.
Mr Le
Boulanger was also secretary of the Mumbles Lifeboat and was still living in
Somerset House in 1925. We’re not sure when he left or why, or if another family
moved in after him before the outbreak of war. Certainly in 1950 ‘the estate’ of
the, by this time deceased Mr Le Boulanger, still owned some of the land that
had originally belonged to Somerset House.
Mumbles Hill House
http://sites.google.com/site/ahistoryofmumbles/mumbles-hill-house
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of F. Le
Boulanger as blue with two red horizontal stripes near the top and bottom,
charged in the center with the white letters "LE B", the "E" smaller.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#90
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
![[Clanrye Steamship Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfcml.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
There are references to Legg, C.M. Ship Owner and Coal Merchant in the 1910
and 1912 Street Directories, and it was this Charles Legg who originally
commissioned the construction of the building around this time. Prior to its
creation it was a single storey dwelling.
Charles Legg was a prominent
Carrickfergus businessman and philanthropist. Following the death of his only
son, Second Lieutenant Charles Legg, in the First World War, he gifted the town
citizens Legg Park. This was located on the site of his former shipyard. He also
set up the Legg Trust for Poor Women.
His coal merchant business was
bought by John Kelly Ltd c.1920. The Kelly’s coal line had been incorporated
into a limited company in 1911, following a successful 61 year growth from a
small grocers and commission coal merchants at Queen’s Quay, Belfast. The first
quarter of the 20th century marked a period of expansion for the company, the
absorption of Charles M. Legg, simply one of many. The symbol of the company ‘K’
marked the building as Kelly’s, and this has remained the case right through to
modern day.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/312113549663811/posts/450406809167817/
Heritage Carrickfergus, 28 October 2019
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and
Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of C.M. Legg (#455, p. 58) as blue with a
white disc inscribing a red "L".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#23
Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
![[Richard W. Lewis houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfrwl.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "Richard W. Lewis" (#67, p. 40), a company based in
Aberdeen (Scotland), as red with a white letter "L".
Ivan Sache, 12 March 2008
![[John M. Lennard & Sons, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjml.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of John
M. Lennard & Sons, Ltd. (#663, p. 68), a Middlesbrough-based company, as blue
with a red lozenge inscribing a white, cursive "L".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/33/
Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
![[Lewis, Heron & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~lewhl.gif)
by Ivan
Sache
Lewis, Heron and Co., also William Lewis and Co., London. The flag is red with a
blue square diamond charged with a L (white).
Based on
The Mystic Seaport Foundation
Ivan Sache, 1 February 2004
![[Leyland Line houseflag]](../images/g/gb~leyla.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker
The Leyland Line (Frederick Leyland & Co., Limited), founded 1900, belonged to
the Morgan-trust, trafficking from London, Liverpool to Boston, New York, New
Orleans, West Indies, Mexico and Central America. The lines Liverpool-Lisbon,
Oporto, Liverpool-Mediterranean and Antwerpen-Portland (Maine) belonged formerly
to the Leyland Line, but was transferred to the Ellerman Line in Liverpool.
Source: Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon, 14th
ed (c. 1907)
Jarig Bakker, 11 October 2003
![[Adelphi Vergottis houseflag]](../images/g/gb~leyl1.gif)
by Ivan Sache,
7 January 2005
Larousse Commercial Illustré (1930) shows Leyland Line, Liverpool: red, a green
cross throughout and a little white disk neatly enclosed in the centre of the
cross. The cross's arms are about one fifth of flag height. Both pictures at
http://www.greatships.net/leylandline.html have a plain red flag only. The
on-line 1912 Lloyd's Flags & Funnels has a completely red flag for 'Frederick
Leyland & Co., Ltd. (Leyland Line), Liverpool' under No. 1886:
http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/initiative/ImPage.cfm?PageNum=91&BibId=11061&ChapterId=8
and a completely different one for 'J.H. Welford & Co., Ltd (Gulf Transport Line
and Leyland Shipping Co., Ltd.), Liverpool', No. 211. Here, some correspondence
pointing to the connection with the Bibby Line, another red house flag company
(see particularly Note 2 of this letter):
http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/letters/02565.asp. So where does the
green cross come from, I wonder?
Jan Mertens, 19 May 2004
Post card collection confirms the second
design.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 February 2007
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the same house flag
(#1886, p. 126).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#91
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
![[James Leyman & Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjle.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 30 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of James
Leyman & Co., Ltd. (#1412, p. 104), a Hull-based company, as yellow with a red
ring in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#69
Ivan Sache, 30 April 2021
