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Sache, 22 April 2021
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image by Ivan
Sache, 22 April 2021
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.
Eight
out the ten ships operated by the company were named "Lord ...".
Lloyd's
Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of the Lord Line
(Irish Steamship Co, Ltd.) (T. Dixon & Sons, Ltd., Managers) (#201, p. 46), as
blue with a white shamrock.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#11
Ivan Sache, 22 April 2021
![[C.M. Los (London) Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~los.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker, 20 September 2005
C. M. Los (London) Ltd., London - triband blue-white-blue, in center red
turned "V" (= Greek letter lambda (L))
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 20 September 2005
![[Lougher Shipping Co. Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~lough.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache, 14 July 2005
A picture of a pitcher showing the flag can be found at
http://www.cabinclass.com/dinnerinthediner/pages/archives/steamship/loug_01.htm.
The flag is a red
field, white diamond with blue letter ‘L’. The
mysticseaport.org website describes this company as 'Redcroft Steam
Navigation Co., Ltd. (Lewis Lougher), Cardiff'.
Jan Mertens, 12 July 2005
![[Love, Stewart & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfl&s.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Love,
Stewart & Co. (Lovart Steamship Co., Ltd.) (#680, p. 69), a Bo'ness-based
company, as red with four white triangles in the corners and the white letters
"L & S".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/34/
Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
![[W. Lowden & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfwlo.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 27 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of W.
Lowden & Co. (#776, p. 73), a Liverpool-based company, as swallow-tailed, blue
with a red star outlined in white in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/38/
Ivan Sache, 27 April 2021
![[Lyle Shipping Co. Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~blan.jpg)
image located
by Jan Mertens, 14 July 2005
The striking flag of the ‘Blue Anchor Line', 'Lund’s Line' ('W. Lund & Sons,
London') can be seen on various kinds of pottery at
http://www.numa.co.za/lunds.htm.
It is white, a blue anchor placed in a diagonal position. The company was
founded 1869 by Wilhelm Lund to ship passengers to Australia and - at first -
bringing back tea from China. First steamship bought in 1880, transformation of
fleet completed in 1890. Mysteriously lost ‘SS Waratah’ in 1909 causing it to be
nicknamed later “Titanic of the Southern Seas”. This blow was crippling to the
company; a year later its competitor P&O bought the ships and Blue Anchor
stopped its activities.
Jan Mertens, 14 July 2005
![[J.T. Lunn houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjtl.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 1 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of J.T. Lunn
& Co. (#1505, p. 108), a Newcastle-based shipping company, as blue with a white
saltire, in the respective quarters, the white letters "J", "T", "L", and "Co.",
in the center a white lozenge charged with a blue "&".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#73
Ivan Sache, 1 May 2021
![[W.H. Lunn houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hflun.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
Lunn operated a cruising line known as The Cruising Co. or the Co-operative
Cruising Co. The steam yacht "Argonaut" was lost in 1908.
"Argonaut".
Luxury Steam Yacht, Length 334ft, Beam 40ft. Sunk 29th Sept. 1908 after a
collision with the Newcastle steamer "Kingswell". After the incident the "Kingswell"
was beached West of Hythe to prevent her from floundering. The "Argonaut" owned
by the Co-operative cruising company was less fortunate. It was around 8.30 a.m.
at the time of the collision many of the passenger would have been taking
breakfast.
She was badly damaged by the bow of the "Kingswell" and rapidly
took on water. The local press reported that the passengers were evacuated into
lifeboats amid perfect order and in the shortest time possible. The Crew,
Stewards, and Captain were the last to leave the "Argonaut", as water began
washing under the bridge on the upper deck. The crew of the "Argonaut" were
thrown into unemployment after the sinking and a fund was opened for their
assistance, with contributions from passengers who had previously been on
voyages on the yacht. Each crew member also received a gift of £1 from the
Co-operative Cruising Company.
Wreck Site
http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?4
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and
Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of W.H. Lunn (The Cruising Co., Ltd.)
(#1645, p. 115), a London-based shipping company, as blue with a yellow ancient
sailing ship surmounted by the writing "ARGO".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#80
Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
![[Lunn & MacCoy houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hflum.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 30 April 2021
George Lunn was the brother of John T. Lunn and in 1892 formed a partnership to
found Lunn & McCoy with a new tramp steamer. It was a further three years before
the company’s second ship was built. The final steamer was delivered in 1911 and
by 1914 Lunn & MacCoy owned three ships. Two of these were war losses, the third
went missing at sea and the company ceased trading.
Mariners L
http://www.mariners-list.com/site_pages.php?section=Shipping+Companies&category=English&page_name=Springfield+S.S+Co
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Lunn & MacCoy (#1462, p. 106), a Newcastle-based shipping company, as white with
the blue interlaced letters "L" and "M".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#71
Ivan Sache, 30 April 2021
![[Lykiardopouldo & Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~lykia.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 25 December 2005
Lykiardopouldo & Co., Ltd., London - white flag, red 5-pointed star.
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 25 December 2005
See also:
![[Lyle Shipping Co. Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~s0550.gif)
image
by Phil Nelson, 11 April 2000
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963
The company was formed in Glasgow in 1903 and by 1914 owned five tramp
steamers but lost two of them during hostilities. In 1925 their first motorship
was delivered and in 1934 the fleet of the bankrupt ship owner Pardoe - Thomas
of Newport was purchased. The fleet consisted of 10 ships in 1939 but only one
of them survived the war. Several wartime built ships were purchased. In 1959
the company entered the iron ore trade and in 1965 took delivery of their first
bulk carrier. By 1985 Lyles began to experience financial problems and went into
receivership in 1986.
http://www.mariners-list.com/site_pages.php?section=Shipping+Companies&category=Scottish&page_name=Lyle+Shipping+Co
Mariners L
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the same
house flag (#1159, p. 92).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#57
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2021
![[Lynn & Hamburg Steamship Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hflyh.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
Early in 1891, the SS Cragg was launched at Willington Quay, on the Tyne. The
Cragg was bought by the Lynn and Hamburg SS Co Ltd, and renamed the SS
Tangermuende. The Tangermuende took the name of a port on the Elbe, about 110
miles south-east of Hamburg, emphasising the company's trading links with that
city-port and Germany generally. She sailed weekly to Hamburg. [...]
The
ship's principal outward freight was coal, loaded at the jetty in the Alexandra
Dock, where coal trucks could be raised and emptied to supply several chutes
feeding into her hold. There was a regular traffic in horses from Lynn, to be
slaughtered for consumption in Germany. These would be wailing, in their wooden
stalls, to be hoisted aboard as deck cargo, just before sailing. By return she
brought fully-refined sugar from Hamburg, together with general cargo including
tinware, light machinery, sewing machines and most of the things sought after by
Edwardian housewives in the department stores.
There were also items which
did not appear on the ship's manifest. The Tangermuende was notorious for
contraband; tobacco, snuff, cigars and spirits were readily available and
'market prices' were well known in the port. Some shipwrights encouraged the
trade. More beneficially, her 'Dutch Drops' gained wide circulation in the town;
despite the name, this was a liniment, mainly turpentine, held as a sovereign
remedy for lumbago and rheumatism. Also known as 'Haarlem Drops' both names have
been confused with 'Black Drops', but these contained opium - not illegal at
that time, but bought more cheaply 'ex ship'.
RootsWeb Project
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~leveritt/22.htm
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Lynn &
Hamburg Steamship Co., Ltd. (#1681, p. 117), a King's Lynn-based shipping
company, as horizontally divided black-white-red (that is, the flag of the
German Empire), charged in the center with the red letters "L&HSSCo.".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#82
Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
