![[Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~pntl.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 20 December 2005
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image by Jarig
Bakker, 20 December 2005
Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd., Warrington - green flag, white "PNTL". Same
family of flags as British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 20 December 2005
![[Pacific Shipping, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfpsp.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Pacific
Shipping, Ltd. (#1815, p. 123), a Sunderland-based shipping company, as white
with a red "P" in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#88
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
![[Pacific Steam Navigation Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~psnc.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 the Pacific Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.,
Liverpool. A flag comprising a white field and a blue cross with a king's crown
in the centre. The initials 'PSNC' are in the quarters. The flag is made of a
wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn with
the crown printed. A rope and toggle is attached."
Jarig Bakker, 24 August 2004
Pacific Steam
Navigation, founded 1938 in London with routes to South America at first. The
first house flag was similar to that shown in Brown, but with a Chilean style
star where the crown in. The company was granted a Royal Charter and the star
eventually replaced by the crown. In the early 1840's the company headquarters
was moved to Liverpool. With Anderson, Anderson & Co., and F. Green & Co.
co-founded the Orient Steam Navigation Co.
to compete with
Peninsular and Oriental (P&O) in offering
service to Australia (1877). During the Boer War one of their ships was used as
a hospital ship and four others as troop carriers. In 1902 their royal charter
was extended for another 21 years and in 1905 Pacific Steam Navigation sold
their share of Oriental Steam Navigation to Royal Mail Lines, the service being
discontinued in 1909. In 1910, Pacific Steam Navigation was purchased by Royal
Mail. In 1922, the royal charter was extended in perpetuity. After the Royal
Mail scandal (referred to earlier in this thread), the company was operated
independently for a while before being repurchased by the newly reorganized
Royal Mail in 1938. In 1952 the crown on the flag was replaced by the Edwardian
style crown. After Royal Mail was purchased by Furness Withy in 1965, the
company continued to operate a limited number of ships under the Pacific Steam
Navigation flag until operations for PSNC were ceased in 1985.
Phil Nelson, 18 October 2003
The flag for Pacific Steam Navigation Co.
is that described by Peter of white, a blue cross surmounted with a Royal Crown
and the red letters "PSNC" in the respective quarters. To add to Phil's summary,
according to Loughran (1979) the originally proposed flag was a tapered
swallowtail with a star instead of a crown as a courtesy to Chile with whom they
planned to trade but by the time the first voyage was ready to be undertaken,
which was not until 6/1840, with the Royal Charter having been granted in the
February of that year the flag was changed to a rectangle and the star was
replaced by a St. Edward Crown. This crown was replaced by another version after
the accession of Edward VII but reverted on the instructions of Elizabeth II
following her coronation.
Neale Rosanoski, 24 May 2004
Pacific Steam Navigation Co., Liverpool: Larousse Commercial Illustré (1930)
shows this flag as white, a blue St George's cross with red letters (without
serifs) in the corners: `P' in upper hoist, `S' in upper fly, `N' in lower hoist
and `Co' in lower fly, the `o' raised (no dot). In the centre of the blue cross,
a yellow-and-red royal crown. A picture (with `C' rather than `Co') is at the
head of this page.
Jan Mertens, 4 June 2004
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the same house flag (#90, p. 41).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#6
Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
![[Palin Evans & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfpae.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 29 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Palin
Evans & Co. (#1176, p. 92), a Bristol-based company, as blue with a white
lozenge inscribing the blue letters "PE&C°".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#57
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2021
![[Palm Line houseflag]](../images/g/gb~palm.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 the Palm Line Ltd, London. A rectangular
green flag with a white saltire. In the centre there is a white disc with a
green palm tree. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. The
hoist and palm tree are cotton. The flag is machine sewn. A rope and toggle is
attached.
The company was the major ship-owning subsidiary of Lever Brothers who used
coconut oil as a basis for many of their products. The flag is based on the
winning entry of a competition organised through the company magazine 'Progress'
in the 1930s."
Jarig Bakker, 24 August 2004
Loughran (1979), in "A survey of mercantile houseflags and funnels", wrote:
"The humblest craft may bear markings of great interest. Even steam or motor lighters may have funnel marks which lead to a story. Until 1974, the small harbour craft employed by Lever Brothers Ltd., of Port Sunlight, to transport vegetable oils from the deep sea vessels in the Mersey ports to their factories at Bromborough, had red funnels with black tops. These markings were all that remained of a competition held within the firm to design a houseflag and funnel mark for their shipping fleet. This took place about 1930 and the winning entry was featured in "Progress", the house magazine of the Unilever group, of which Lever Brothers forms a part. The houseflag was a colorful one, with a palm tree as its main device:Jarig Bakker, 14 June 2004Contest winning entry (not used)
image by Jarig Bakker, 14 June 2004
It does not seem to have been adopted and actually flown, but the funnel mark found its way on to these small lighters. Some years later, the houseflag-design, its format and coloring tidied up, was adopted for the Palm Line Ltd., of London, which is the major ship-owning subsidiary of the group. The palm tree, symbol of the coconut oil which is the basis of so many of the group's products, was also used on the very handsome funnel marking."
![[Panagiotis A. Lemos Associates Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~palem.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 21 February 2006
Panagiotis A. Lemos Associates Ltd., London - white swallowtail, connected
blue stylized "PL".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 15 February 2006
![[Frixos V. Papachristidis houseflag]](../images/g/gb~fvp.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 10 December 2005
Frixos V. Papachristidis, London - blue with a white-blue-white
Scandinavian-type cross; in center white disk with inner blue circle containing
Greek letters "FVP" (Phi - Beta - Pi).
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 December 2005
![[A.G. Pappadakis & Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~pappa.gif)
image by
Jarig Bakker, 29 January 2006
A.G. Pappadakis & Co., Ltd., London - yellow-blue-white-blue-yellow flag,
over all black "P".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 29 January 2006
![[Park Steamship Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfpks.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 22 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Park
Steamship Co., Ltd. (Col. J. Smith Park) (#231, p. 47), a Glasgow-based company,
as white with a reddish stag couchant.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#12
Ivan Sache, 22 April 2021
![[Pater Steam Trawling Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfpat.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Pater
Steam Trawling Co., Ltd. (#1694, p. 117), a Milford Haven-based fishing company,
as white with a thick blue border, charged in the center with a red "A".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#82
Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
![[G.N. Patterson & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfptt.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 1 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of (#1541,
p. 110), a Newcastle-based shipping company, as triangular, white with a blue
"P".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#75
Ivan Sache, 1 May 2021
![[George F. Paul houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfgfp.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of George
F. Paul (#425, p. 57), an Aberdeen-based company, as red with a white clover
leaf.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#22
Ivan Sache, 24 April 2021
