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located by Eugene Ipavec, 6 August 2006
On the Kennedy, Hunter & Co. agencies list is the Lockett Wilson Line Ltd,
London. See the history pages of the
Dundee, Perth and London Shipping Company site:
“In 1954 the company acquired a minority interest in a small London-based firm,
Lockett Wilson Ltd. This was to lead to another happy and profitable association
as Lockett Wilson Ltd. were not only using Dundee Wharf, but were also in the
market to buy ships. Soon the “Clova” and “Crombie” were transferred to the new
firm and sailings were operated from London to Paris and also from Goole and
Hull to Paris and Brussels. (…)
The coastal home trade became increasingly difficult to operate
profitably during the 1950’s and 1960’s (…and…) there were significant changes
in the distribution pattern of cattle feedstuffs. As a result, important
decisions were made about the future of the company. The most radical was the
termination of the liner service between Dundee and London which had been run
since the formation of the company in 1826. (…) The only coastal liner service
remaining was the occasional voyage to Southampton with potatoes. The coastal
fleet was reduced to four vessels by the beginning of 1963. (…)
The year 1967 was the end of the line and in March the “Kingennie”
tied up in the Tyne after a voyage from Swansea and the company flag (of Dundee,
Perth & London, jm) was run down for the last time. The “Kingennie” was the last
ship to be owned by the company and a ship-owning era of just over 140 years was
at an end.
The company maintained its interest in Lockett Wilson Line and
Channel Shipping and their five ships. However, these were facing severe
competition from ro-ro ferries and container ships. Dundee Wharf was sold in
October, 1969.”
See this photo of a ship owned by LW 1963-1968:
http://www.stegro.nl/Website1/Marne(2).htm
I do not know when Lockett Wilson was founded and the house flag must logically
have been adopted before the takeover by Dundee, Perth & London. The flag is
white and bears a large blue diamond, bordered white (visible thanks to black
holding lines) and on which the white company initials L and W appear, the W
floating above an L with an extended lower leg.
Jan Mertens, 15 February 2006
The Lockett Wilson Line was created by Air Commodore Charles Edward Stuart Lockett. Born 15 April 1910. Died 20 August 1966. He was an excellent pilot and instructor although he spent most of WW2 in German Prison Camps (escaped a few times and was re-captured). Retiring from the R.A.F., he became a ship owner in Jersey (Channel Islands), becoming a Lloyd's Agent in 1961 and German Consul for Jersey and Guernsey in 1966. He was killed flying his private plane off Alderney in a flying accident (fog). That's the "L".
My father in law was John Wilson (The "W") who was a second officer in the
Merchant Navy during WW2. He was serving on a merchant ship on a secret mission.
They had a Royal Navy Officer on board who was going to deliver secret
documents. The Captain got drunk and sailed into a minefield. My father took
over the ship and tried (successfully for a time) to get out of the minefield
but they eventually hit a mine which sunk the ship. The only person killed was
the R.N. Officer who went below to collect the secret documents from a safe
intending to throw them overboard in a weighted container but went down with the
ship. Hanging on to some wood with his right arm for a considerable time (days)
in the minefield, when rescued by Germans his right arm had to be amputated. He
eventually escaped from the Germans and made his way back to England obtaining
valuable information. He was awarded the D.S.C by King George in person. (While
serving on the LW Board of directors he obtained his Captain's papers, but never
sailed as a Captain). Born February 6, 1907. Died: April 3 Rd.1979 in Jersey
Channel Islands. When he left the Lockett Wilson Line he also became a Lloyds of
London Agent and had no trouble climbing a rope ladder with only one arm.
Unfortunately for the flag remained unchanged.
Hugh McCaffrey, 8 July
2010
![[London & Edinburgh Shipping Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~lesc.gif)
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by António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 August 2007
Based on a postcard collection.
A white flag with an ogival shield with the London
armorial bearings on the upper hoist and the
Edinburgh armorial bearings on the middle fly.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 August 2007
![[Strong, Reid & Page houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfl&e.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows a similar house flag
(#701, p. 70) with the castle centered.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/35/
Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
![[London & Overseas Freighters Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~lof.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 London & Overseas Freighters Ltd.,
London. A pennant divided horizontally into white over blue with a red
five-pointed star 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 toggle is
attached."
Jarig Bakker, 20 August 2004
![[London & Pacific Petroleum Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hflpp.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
The London & Pacific Petroleum Co. contributed to the Peruvian oil rush at
the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
In 1888, Genaro Helguero sold the La
Brea y Pariñas estate and the attached oil concession to Herbert Tweddle. The
next year, Tweddle, who has paid 18,000 £, sold half of the estate to William
Keswick, for 30,000 £. In 1890, Tweddle, Keswick, Lionell Ward, D. Jackson and
O. A. Mygalt registered in London the London & Pacific Petroleum Co., with a
social capital of 250,000 £. The oilfield was very profitable but production
dramatically diminished following a long dispute that broke out between the
associates in 1897.
In 1914, production resumed under the management of a new
owner, the International Petroleum Co. Ltd., the South American subsidiary set
up by the Standard Oil of New Jersey Co.
Successive attempts by the Peruvian
government to take control of the La Brea y Pariñas oilfield failed; on 9
October 1963, the Peruvian government eventually expropriated IPC, transferring
the oilfield to the Empresa Petrolera Fiscal.
Lloyd's Book of House Flags
and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of London & Pacific Petroleum Co., Ltd.
(#1620, p. 114), a London-based shipping company, as blue with a white saltire.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#79
Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
![[London & Peterhead Steam Fishing Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hflps.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 23 April 2008
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "London & Peterhead Steam Fishing Co., Ltd." (#289, p.
50), a company based in London, as white with a blue border and the red letters
"LP" in the middle.
Ivan Sache, 23 April 2008
![[London and Rochester houseflag]](../images/g/gb~lonro.gif)
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by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
Shown on the website of the National
Maritime Museum, as the Crescent Shipping line, this is the flag of the
London & Rochester Trading Co. Ltd., Rochester, as depicted in Loughran (1979)
with proportions 2:3 instead of 1:2 as on the Museum site.
Jarig Bakker, 10 August 2004
![[London and Rochester houseflag]](../images/g/gb$lrt.gif)
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by António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 December 2007
The postcard collection says (on card #8, 4th
row, 1st flag): "London & Rochester Trading Co." and shows a ~2:3 red flag with
a large and very narrow white crescent turned to the hoist, pointing slightly
up.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 December 2007
Photograph of example of flag from National Maritime Museum in Greenwich (London):
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/296.html shows a fatter
upright crescent, close to the hoist.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 April 2019
The company now continues as Crescent Shipping.
![[London & South Western & Midlands Railway Companies houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfljc.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 29 April 2021
The London & South Western Railway, originally London & Southampton Railway,
(1838-1839) was active from 1838 to 1923.
The London Brighton & South Coast
Railway (aka the Brighton Line or the Brighton Railway) was active from 1846 to
1923, being formed by the amalgamation of five older companies.
The two
companies were amalgamated into the Southern Railway in 1923.
The two
companies operated a joint fleet of ferries serving Isle of Wight from
Portsmouth. The service passed to the Southern Railway in 1923 and British
Railways in 1948.
Simplon
http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/IOW1.html
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and
Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of London & South Western Railway Co, &
London Brighton & South Coast Railway Co. Joint Committee (#1805, p. 122) as the
Union Jack with a red border.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#87
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
![[London & South Western & Midlands Railway Companies houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfs&d.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 29 April 2021
The S&D became a jointly owned company in 1875, ownership being divided between
the Midland Railway and the London and South Western Railway, subsequently the
LMS with the SR. The line ran from the Bristol channel down to Bournemouth on
the English channel connecting Bristol with Bournemouth, Poole and Southampton.
The S&D used Bournemouth West station for its southern passenger terminus via
running powers on the LSWR. A later addition was the branch line from Evercreech
Junction to Bath Green Park station, which became the northern terminus of the
S&D, Here the S&D joined the Midland Railway and the rest of the national
network.
The S&D was mainly single track, making it popular with modellers,
however it suffered from seasonal traffic variations, busy in summer, less so in
winter. The companies goods rolling stock was transferred to the LSWR and MR in
1914, the passenger and non passenger coaching stock was transferred to the LMS
and SR in 1930. The line was closed in 1966, amid some controversy.
https://www.igg.org.uk/rail/00-app2/joint/sdjr.htm
Mike Smith
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of the
Somerset & Dorset Joint Line (#1180, p. 93) as blue with the white letters
"S&DJR".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#58
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2021
![[London Court Line Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~lcl.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 London Court Line Ltd. A rectangular
white flag bearing a black tower and crescent. The flag is made of a machine
sewn, wool and synthetic fibre bunting. The tower motif and the hoist are made
of cotton fabric. A rope and toggle is attached. The Court Line Group purchased
tankers from 1963 and these carried a blue house flag with a bird design.
The line was a tramp shipping company founded in 1905 by Philip Edward
Haldinstein and based on London. His ships were all called after country houses
with the suffix 'Court'. The fleet expanded greatly in the 1920s and was badly
affected by the depression, many vessels being laid up. The company moved into
bulk carriers in the 1960s and tankers. The company changed its naming scheme
with new vessels having the prefix 'Halcyon' and also its livery. The group's
diversified interests in airlines, package holidays, shipbuilding and repairing
led to cash flow problems. As a result it went into liquidation in 1974."
Jarig Bakker, 20 August 2004
![[London Exchange Steamship Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfles.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 29 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of the
London Exchange Steamship Co., Ltd., also River Plate Steamship Co., Ltd.
(Andrew Low, Son & Co.) (#1162, p. 92), as red with a white cross, charged in
the center with a blue shield inscribing a white "L".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#57
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2021
![[London Gate Line houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfhwd.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of London
Gate Line (H.W. Dillon) (#1667, p. 116), a London-based shipping company, as
triangular, red with the white letters "HWD".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#81
Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
![[Londonderry Steamers houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hflos.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 29 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Londonderry Steamers (#1089, p. 88), a Seaham Harbour-based company, as composed
of vertical triangles, in turn blue and yellow.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#53
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2021
![[London Welsh Steamship Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hflow.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 29 April 2021
The London Welsh Steamship Co. was acquired in 1911 by Furness, Withy and Co.
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
London Welsh Steamship Co., Ltd. (#1165, p. 92) as blue with the white letters
"L.W.".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#57
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2021
