![[Mead Son & Hussey houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmsh.gif)
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Sache, 26 April 2021
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image by Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Mead
Son & Hussey (#651, p. 67), a London-based company, as white with a red saltire,
charged in the center with a blue rectangle inscribing the white letters "MS&H".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/32/
Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
![[McNeil, Hinde & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmch.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 29 April 2021
William Hinde, born in Portland, Dorset i 1877, moved to Cardiff in 1893 to
take up a job with Chellew & Co., shipowners from Truro, Cornwall, who had an
office in Cardiff. In 1903 he left Chellew & Co. to form McNeil, Hinde & Co.,
shipowners, with Robert McNeil. The new company bought the ship "Portland" and
in 1906 the "Portsmouth", followed in 1907 by the "Portreath". In 1912 the "Portloe"
was added but in 1913 the "Portland" and "Portsmouth" were sold and in 1914 the
company was dissolved, Hinde setting up on his own.
http://www.glamorganfamilyhistory.co.uk/maritime/SHIPCO.html
Short
histories of some Cardiff area shipping companies
Lloyd's Book of House
Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of McNeil, Hinde & Co. (#1187, p.
93) as swallow-tailed, white with a monogram composed of a red "M" and "H".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#58
Ivan
Sache, 29 April 2021
![[Mayflower SS Corp.]](../images/u/us~med.gif)
image by Joe McMillan
Mediterranean Steamship Co.
There have been several companies with similar names, but none I have found
information on matches this time period. The flag in Flaggenbuch 1905 is a
distinctive red flag with two white vertical stripes, forming five equal bands.
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905
Joe McMillan, 29 October 2001
Mediterranean Steamship Co. This is the flag of the UK company Mediterranean & New York Steamship Co. Ltd. based in Liverpool and operating 1878-1905. Details are available in Bonsor P1016. (Volume 3). It has been shown by the shorter title, Mediterranean Steamship Co., by the Liverpool Journal of Commerce Chart of 1885 but the fuller title is shown by subsequent sources up to Lloyds 1904. The confusion regarding country (US or UK?) probably relates to their managers, Phelps Bros. & Co., based Liverpool, who had opened a New York branch around 1874.
Neale Rosanoski, 5 March 2004
![[Meff Brothers houseflag]](../images/g/gb~meff.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Meff
Brothers (#76, p. 40), an Aberdeen-based company, as blue with a an Union Jack
in canton, in center a white rectangle inscribing e red "M", and a white pair of
compasses in lower fly.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#5
Ivan Sache,
21 April 2021
![[Melling Steam Trawling Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmel.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Melling Steam Trawling Co., Ltd. (#1703, p. 118), a Fleetwood-based fishing
company, as red with a black lozenge reaching the edges of the flag, charged in
the center with the white letters "HM" (for "Henry Melling").
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#83
Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
![[Mercantile Steamship Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmes.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "Mercantile Steamship Co., Ltd." (#81, p. 40), a company
based in
London, as blue with the white letters "MSCo." The iron steamship
"Boyne" was launched by the "Mercantile Steamship Co." in 1881.
http://portcities.hartlepool.gov.uk/server.php?show=conMediaFile.493
Ivan Sache,
23 March 2008
![[Mersey Towing Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmto.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 30 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Mersey
Towing Co., Ltd. (#1395, p. 103), a Liverpool-based company, as composed of two
rows of three square each, in turn white and red.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#68
Ivan Sache, 30 April 2021
![[Merevale Shipping Co. Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmer.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
The Merevale Shipping Co., Ltd. voluntarily wound up on 6 March 1916 (The London
Gazette, 10 March 1916).
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29502/pages/2589/page.pdf
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Merevale
Shipping Co. Ltd. (#1814, p. 123), a Cardiff-based shipping company, as white
with a red lozenge charged with a white "M".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#88
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
![[B.N. Metaxas houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmet.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 30 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of B.N.
Metaxas (#1337, p. 100), a London-based Greek shipping company, as blue with a
blue "M" inscribed in a serrated white rectangle.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#65
Ivan Sache, 30 April 2021
![[Metcalf Motor Coasters Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~mmc.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 Metcalf Motor Coasters Ltd., London. A
green swallow-tailed burgee with a white border. A white 'M' is placed 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
![[Metcalfe, Simpson & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmts.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "Metcalfe, Simpson & Co." (#82, p. 40), a company based
in West Hartlepool, as white with a blue border and the red letters "MS&Co".
Lloyd's caption says "also A.A. Thore, Jonstorp" (see
Thore).
Ivan Sache, 24 March 2008
Thomas Metcalfe (1855-1926) and Robert Simpson (1852-1917) were shipping
agents and shipbrokers trading as Metcalfe, Simpson & Co. In 1903 they formed a
shipping company to manage the new steamship "Alicia" built by William Gray &
Co.
In April 1903 a newspaper report stated: 'Alicia Steamship Company (West
Hartlepool) (Limited). This company has been registered with a capital of
£26,000, in £10 shares to adopt an agreement between William Gray & Co.
(Limited) and Metcalfe, Simpson & Co. to carry on the business of shipowners in
all its branches, provided that the company may not own more than one steamship
at the same time.'
Their last steamship "Manchuria" was torpedoed in October
1917 and Robert died in December 1917 which brought about the end of the
company.
http://www.hhtandn.org/venues/5024/metcalfe-simpson-and-co-ltd
Hartlepool History Then and Now
Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
