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28 April 2021
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image by Ivan Sache,
28 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Mordey,
Jones & Co. (#990, p. 84) as white with two blue horizontal stripes.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/49/
Ivan
Sache, 28 April 2021
![[Morel, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~morel.gif)
image by James Dignan
Based on Sampson (1957)
James Dignan, 9 October 2003
Brown 317: Morel, Ltd., Cardiff
Funnel: Black, on a wide white band bordered red bordered white a red disk.
Flag: 2:3; white, along the fly-wise edges offset red stripes, and in the center
a red disk of approximately 1/3rd of the flag's height.
James' disk is slightly larger (3/8?) which makes for a better flag.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 20 October 2003
![[R.E. Morel & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfrem.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 28 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the same house flag (#920,
p. 80) for Morel LTD. also P.E. Morel.
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and
Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of R.E. Morel & Co. (#919, p. 80) as red
with a white disc in the center and two thin white horizontal lines near the top
and bottom.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/45/
Ivan
Sache, 28 April 2021
![[Henderson & McIntosh houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfwgm.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 29 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Wm.G.
Morel & Co. (#1166, p. 92), a Cardiff-based company, as white with a red "M" in
the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#57
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2021
![[Evan Morgan & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfemc.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 16 March 2008
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "Evan Morgan & Co." (#34, p. 38), a company based in
London, as red with a blue oval charged with the white letters "EM&Co".
Ivan Sache, 16 March 2008
![[E.W. Morgan & Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfewm.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of E.W.
Morgan & Co., Ltd. (Gratitude S.S. Co., Ltd.) (#498, p. 60), a London-based
company, as white with a red "G" framed in a double white square diamond
outlined in red.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#25
Ivan Sache, 24 April 2021
![[Morgan & Cadogan Limited houseflag]](../images/g/gb~mc.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels [Wedge 1926]
Morgan & Cadogan Limited, Cardiff - white flag with blue saltire; over all
letters M & C L in blue - small "TD" in black.
Jarig Bakker, 15 January 2005
![[Morris & Fisher houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfm&f.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 25 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Morris & Fisher (#541, p. 62), a Grimsby-based company, as red with a black
disc.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#27
Ivan
Sache, 25 April 2021
![[John Morrison & Son houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjmo.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 25 April 2021
John Morrison started steamship owning in 1871 when he purchased the tramp
steamer "Ben Lomond" from John Laing of Sunderland and over the next few years
built up a fleet of eight ships. By the outbreak of the Great War, the company
had been reduced to three ships. Two of these were lost to enemy action and the
third one was sold to Russia. By the end of the war, no ships were owned and the
company did not re-enter ship owning until 1922.
The company purchased 13 new
ships up to 1930 which traded worldwide, but the main trade was from Sweden to
South Africa and homewards via West Africa on charter to United Africa Co. By
1939 ten ships were owned but all were lost during the war. After the loss of
the "Glenlea", the company was wound up.
Before the First World War, all
companies ship but two were named "Ben ...). In the company's second period of
activity, all ships but two were names "...lea".
http://mariners-list.com/site_pages.php?section=Shipping+Companies&category=English&page_name=Morrison+S.S+Co
Mariners L
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the
house flag of
John Morrison & Son (#511, p. 61), a Newcastle-based company,
as white with a red cross patty in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#26
Ivan
Sache, 25 April 2021
![[T.B. Morton & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~mort.jpg)
image located by Jan Martens, 29 May 2007
T.B. Morton & Co. was a British company active in Romania but established in
Constantinople (current Istanbul). Founded in 1855 to carry mail from
Constantinople to Romanian and Black Sea ports, rightly considered a private
post, Morton issued rudimentary stamps from 1869 on. The second issue for
instance showed a steamer flying the (presumably) Red Ensign. Direct link:
http://www.ilpostalista.it/esclusi/immagini/danblu2%20.jpg. Quoting from
an article
by A.H. Godden, location:
“For journals, a special stamp was issued in 1872, in sheets of 72, with a value
of 10 paras (ie ¼ piastre: 40 paras = 1 piastre (…)”
Besides the company name appeared the initials for ‘Danube and Black Sea Line of
Steamers’ or D.& B.S.L.S. Direct link to such journal stamps, showing the house
flag, followed by link to article in Italian (I understand “When the Danube was
still blue…”):
http://www.ilpostalista.it/esclusi/immagini/danblu3.jpg,
http://www.ilpostalista.it/esclusi/danblu.htm. A pennant bears the initials
‘T.B.M. & Co.’ I have no idea what colours were used – perhaps the stamps
faithfully reproduce a white pennant bearing red initials?
Another (very rich philatelic) source, largely French, offers some additional
information:
http://www.ozocaz.fr/Postes-locales/Articles/constantinople.html, in that
Morton’s on-demand service gradually widened from coastal traffic to,
eventually, runs to Malta, Marseilles, etc. The stamps are said to be very rare
and expensive. I wonder when this company stopped activities (the Danube
service seems to have ended in 1880), but the more important question – to us,
at least – is: what were the house flag’s colours?
Jan Mertens, 29 May 2007
![[H.E. Moss Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~moss.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 H. E. Moss & Co., Liverpool. A dark
blue flag with a white diamond in the centre bearing the red letter 'M'. 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, 14 August 2004
The same house flag is shown (#1450, p. 106) in Lloyd's Book of House Flags and
Funnels (1912).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#71
Ivan Sache, 30 April 2021
![[T.C. & F. Moss houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmosisf.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 1 May 2021
Thomas Campbell Moss was Mayor of Grimsby in 1915. Frederick Moss was Mayor
of Grimsby in 1917-1918.
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of T.C. & F. Moss (#1489, p. 107), a Grimsby-based shipping
company, as yellow, in the center, a black horseshoe.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#72
Ivan Sache, 1 May 2021
![[Moss Hutchinson Line, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~mh.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 Moss Hutchison Ltd, London. A red
pennant bearing the white letters 'MH' with a cross pattée
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. This design
dates from the merger of James Moss & Co Ltd with
J & P. Hutchison & Co. in
1934 and is based on Moss's pennant."
Jarig Bakker, 21 August 2004
Moss Hutchinson Line, Ltd. had a blue-white-red vertical tricolor with what
appears to be the thistle in the white stripe [derived from the
J & P. Hutchison & Co. house flag]. They had 2 fleets - the Spanish
Peninsula fleet flew that flag in combination with a red pennant (possibly
bordered in blue or white, but unclear) with a white Maltese cross and white
letters M & H on either side of the cross; their Mediterranean fleet flew only
the pennant.
Source: Stewart (1953)
Ned Smith, 1 July 2003
![[Moss Steamship Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjam.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Moss Steamship Co., Ltd. (James Moss & Co.) (#479, p. 59), as triangular, red
with a white cross patty along the hoist.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#24
Ivan Sache, 24 April 2021
![[Eastern and Australian Steam Ship Co. Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hutch2.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 October 2010
Moss Hutchison Line Ltd.
A French tricolour with a thistle in natural
colour in the middle of the white stripe. According to
http://theshipslist.com/ships/lines/mossH.htm this flag was only hoisted in
French harbours.
Source:
Campbell and Evans (1953); plate V, flag no.8
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 October 2010
![[Mountwood Shipping Company, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~s0979.gif)
image
by Phil Nelson, 11 April 2000
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963
![[R.A. Mudie & Sons houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfram.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 2 April 2008
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "R.A. Mudie & Sons" (#148, p. 44), a company based in
Dundee
(Scotland), as blue with a white cross.
James and Robert Mudie
are listed as the joint owners of the "Gloamin", registered in Dundee, that
wrecked on 24 January 1881. (Board of Trade Wreck Report for "Gloamin", 1881).
Ivan Sache, 2 April 2008
Robert Aitken Mudie (1818-1885) started life in the office of James
Carmichael & Co., an engineering firm that took a prominent part in the great
developments that were taking place about this time. In 1818 they started
building iron ships, but the project had to be abandoned because of the
prejudice against them. In 1821 they built the first steam engines for the ships
of the Dundee-Newport Tay ferry and in 1832 the first steam-engines for the
Dundee to Newtyle railway. They are also credited with the invention of the fan
blast and the reversing gear for marine engines. Although Robert Mudie left the
firm at an early age he remained on intimate terms with the family and was one
of James Carmichael's trustees.
About 1848 Robert Mudie left Carmichael's
and set up on his own as a shipping agent, which led in a few years to his
becoming a shipowner and coal merchant. At first he owned his ships jointly with
shareholders, but these were gradually dropped, except that his brother James
was part owner in some of the ships that he commanded. His main business at the
start was shipping coal from North of England ports to Dundee, where the rising
jute trade provided a good demand, and to the Baltic and White Sea ports. Later
his business became more general. He retired from business on 30th December 1871
at the age of 53 handing over to his sons, James (1840-1897) and Robert, whom he
had taken into partnership a few years before.
Robert Mudie (1847-1911), the
third son of Robert Aitken Mudie, became a partner in his father's business of
R. A. Mudie & Sons, Shipowners, which was wound up on his death in 1911.
http://lrd.co.nz/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/The-Mudies-Of-Angus.pdf
Francis Mudie & Ian M.N. Mudie. The Mudies of Angus. 1959
Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
![[R.A. & J.H. Mudie houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfrjm.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 3 April 2008
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "R.A. & J.H. Mudie" (#178, p. 45), a company based in
Dundee (Scotland), as blue with a white disk charged with a blue saltire.
Ivan Sache, 3 April 2008
Robert Aitken Mudie (1818-1885) started life in the office of James
Carmichael & Co., an engineering firm that took a prominent part in the great
developments that were taking place about this time. In 1818 they started
building iron ships, but the project had to be abandoned because of the
prejudice against them. In 1821 they built the first steam engines for the ships
of the Dundee-Newport Tay ferry and in 1832 the first steam-engines for the
Dundee to Newtyle railway. They are also credited with the invention of the fan
blast and the reversing gear for marine engines. Although Robert Mudie left the
firm at an early age he remained on intimate terms with the family and was one
of James Carmichael's trustees.
About 1848 Robert Mudie left Carmichael's
and set up on his own as a shipping agent, which led in a few years to his
becoming a shipowner and coal merchant. At first he owned his ships jointly with
shareholders, but these were gradually dropped, except that his brother James
was part owner in some of the ships that he commanded. His main business at the
start was shipping coal from North of England ports to Dundee, where the rising
jute trade provided a good demand, and to the Baltic and White Sea ports. Later
his business became more general. He retired from business on 30th December 1871
at the age of 53 handing over to his sons, James (1840-1897) and Robert, whom he
had taken into partnership a few years before.
Robert Mudie (1847-1911), the
third son of Robert Aitken Mudie, became a partner in his father's business of
R. A. Mudie & Sons, Shipowners, which was wound up on his death in 1911.
http://lrd.co.nz/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/The-Mudies-Of-Angus.pdf
Francis Mudie & Ian M.N. Mudie. The Mudies of Angus. 1959
Ivan
Sache, 22 April 2021
![[Mullion & Co., Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~s0190.gif)
image
by Phil Nelson, 7 April 2000
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963
![[Mullion & Co., Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmur.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 25 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Murray, McNab & Co. (#597, p. 65), a Glasgow-based company, as white with a
red "M" in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/30/
Ivan Sache, 25 April 2021
![[Joseph E. Murrell & Son houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjem.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
Francis Yeoman (1849-1914) started out as a clerk in the firm of his uncle,
Sherinton Foster, who, as well as being a shipbroker and shipowner was also a
master mariner. Francis eventually became a partner and the company became
Foster & Yeoman. On his uncle's death he took over the business. A partnership
was then formed between Joseph Murrell (1837-1919) & Francis Yeoman in 1881.
When the partnership was dissolved the company became J.H. Murrell & Co. then
J.E. Murrell & Co. and lastly Murrell S.S. Co. Ltd.
The directors of the
company in 1945 were Arthur George Murrell and Edwin Joseph Murrell (1881-1962).
http://www.hhtandn.org/venues/4477/jh-murrell-and-co
Hartlepool History
Then and Now
The link to Lloyd's has to be updated to
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#8
Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
