![[Premier Steam Fishing Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfpsf.gif)
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Sache, 4 May 2021
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image by Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Premier
Steam Fishing Co., Ltd. (#1769, p. 121), a Grimsby-based fishing company, as
blue with a white "P" in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#86
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
![[J. Prendiville & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjpr.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 29 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of J.
Prendiville & Co. (#1214, p. 94) as green, charged in the center with a 12-rayed
yellow sun.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#59
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2021
![[Prentice Service & Hendersonhouseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfpsh.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
George Service was a Glasgow shipowner who was first chairman of the Student
International Club, founded in 1922. He left £1,000 to the club in his will, and
its premises at 11 University Gardens were named for him. George Service House
has been occupied by HATII since 1997.
Born in Glasgow, Service studied at
the University in the early 1880s before working for the shipping company, City
Line. He joined Prentice & Clapperton which became known as Prentice Service &
Henderson after he became a partner in 1890. Service spent much of his life in
Cove, where he was a councillor for many years, and he was Provost of Cove and
Kilcreggan in 1917. He was Glasgow's Dean of Guild, 1930-1932. Service was also
a patron of the artist Francis Cadell (1883-1937).
The Shipping Magnate
and Isotopes
http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/news/isotope.html
The Crown Line
fleet of Prentice, Service & Henderson was taken over in 1918 by Thomas & James
Harrison.
Prentice, Service & Henderson appear to be still registered in
Liverpool as ship agents.
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of Prentice, Service & Henderson (Crown Steamship Co.,
Ltd.) (#1652, p. 115) as white with three red crowns placed along the descending
diagonal of the flag.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#80
Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
![[W. Price & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~price.gif)
image located by Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of W.
Price & Co. (#124, p. 42), a Liverpool-based company, as blue, charged in the
center with a white oval inscribing the red letters "WP&C°", cantonned by four
white winged devices.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#7
Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
![[Port Line Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~prin.gif)
image by
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 February 2008
[Click on image for a photograph of an actual flag, located by Jan
Mertens, 24 December 2005: the representation here should not have the "ICH
DIEN" included.]
Source: http://www.travellersintime.net/catalogue.php?action=section_search§ion=flags
Red swallow-tailed pennon with the
Prince of Wales' ostrich feathers in white.
James Dignan, 17 October 2003
Founded 1884. The first ships were Saxon
Prince and Highland Prince. Incorporated 1885 as Prince Lines out of Newcastle.
Sold to Furness, Withy & Co in 1916 after Sir James Knott, the owner, had his
three sons killed during World War I. In 1917, Furness, Withy created a
subsidiary to the company, Rio-Cape Line Ltd. Rio-Cape was merged back into
Prince Line in 1954. By the 1960s the company was leasing ships on an as needed
basis, although it would venture into container ships in the 1970s before the
company was amalgamated with Manchester Lines. Furness, Withy was sold to
C.Y.
Tung and later to Hamburg Süd. Today it exists in name only as part of Hamburg
Sud's entity Shaw Savill Holdings Ltd.
Phil Nelson, 18 October 2003
Posted as insolvent on 19 May 2004 (The
Times).
Ron Lahav, 20 May 2004
Is it right that a shipping company was
permitted to use as the sole item on its house flag the personal emblem of the
heir to the throne?
Colin Dobson, 11 February 2008
The three
feather badge of the Prince of Wales includes the motto "ich dien", but the
three feather emblem on the Prince Line house flag did not, so I guess it can be
argued that it is not the personal emblem of the heir to the throne.
David Prothero, 11 February 2008
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels
(1912) shows the same house flag (#789, p. 74).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/39/
Ivan
Sache, 27 April 2021
![[Princess Cruises Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~prcr.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 10 October 2005
Princess Cruises Ltd., London - white, several blue and green waves.
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 October 2005
The logo is a "princess" with wavy blue and green hair.
Albert S. Kirsch, 10 October 2005
![[Princess Cruises Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~p433a.gif)
from
Loughran (1979), located by
Neale Rosanoski, 21 July 2008
![[Princess Cruises Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~p37a.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 21 July 2008
Princess Cruises was at the beginning an American company being formed by
Stanley MacDonald in 1965, based Los Angeles, and with the "Princess logo" on
funnels dating from 1968. In 1974 the company was acquired by P&O
Steam Navigation Co. and was operated by them as a division coming under P&O
Lines Ltd. of London, hence the UK connection. According to Lloyds it was again
set up as a separate company as Princess Lines Inc. of Los Angeles in 1994. In
2000 P&O demerged its cruise interests into a new company, P&O Princess Cruises
Ltd. which ended in a merger with Carnival Corporation in 2003 where it became
Carnival plc. of London with amongst the brand name companies taken over being
Princess Cruises Inc. which is now based in Santa Clarita CA though they also
now operate out of Hamilton, Bermuda as Princess Cruises Lines Ltd. There has
been more than one flag with
Loughran (1979) showing white with
the head [complete with eye] and tresses, which are in light blue and green,
pointing to the hoist and in the base the black legend "PRINCESS CRUISES" and this may be the original colours prior to the P&O
takeover. In 1999 I took a photo of the flag being flown by the "Sky Princess"
which featured purple instead of blue, the whole design being large with no eye [logo can be seen on
http://www.princess.com ]
and in correspondence with Louis Loughran he stated that this was the original
flag, possibly meaning under P&O ownership seeing that it varies from that in
his book, but in 1997 he had seen ships in Vancouver with the flag bearing the
logo all in blue. The P&O archivist of the time told him that the blue markings
had prevailed for several years but without being able to give a date and in
this case it would seem that it was probably a case of using up some old stock.
Not having seen one of their ships since I do not know whether the all blue
version is still around.
Neale Rosanoski, 21 July 2008
![[Giles W. Pritchard-Gordon (Shipowning) Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~gpg.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker, 20 September 2005
Giles W. Pritchard-Gordon (Shipowning) Ltd., London - 7 horizontal stripes of
red and white, proportioned c. 1:1:1:2:1:1:1; over all white diamond bordered
blue, blue "GPG".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 20 September 2005
![[William Purdy houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfwpu.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
When the UK fishing fleet was composed entirely of sailed powered boats, it
was the custom to hire tugs to take them in and out of harbour.
In November,
1877, North Shields tug-owner, William Purdy, fitted trawl gear to the paddle
tug "Messenger". He came to be acknowledged locally as the first to introduce
steam trawling on the Tyne. His fleet of steam trawlers, which lasted into the
1960s, included a boat named after himself.
http://www.tynetugs.co.uk/Owner-Purdy.html
Tyne Tugs and Tug Builders
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
William Purdy (#460, p. 58) as white with a red border, charged in the center
with a red "P".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#23
Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
![[Purvis Shipping Co., Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~s0120.gif)
image
by Phil Nelson, 7 April 2000
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963
![[Purvis Shipping Co., Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~psco3.gif)
Eugene Ipavec, 8 August 2006
Purvis Shipping Co. Ltd. According to Brown 1951 there was an earlier flag
being a pennant of 6 black and red vertical bands with the black bearing the
white letters "PSC" in descending scale.
Neale Rosanoski, 24 May 2004
![[Putford Enterprises Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~puten.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 3 October 2005
Putford Enterprises Ltd., Lowestoft - white swallowtail bordered orange,
except at the hoist; on white black "P".
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 3 October 2005
![[Pyman Bros. Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~pymas.gif)
image by Eugene
Ipavec, 23 July 2006
A red flag with blue disk charged with white "P", shown in
Talbot-Booth (1937) "Ships and the Sea",
1937, #94 (British Empire). T-B shows a swallowtail with the disk at c. 1/3 flag
length. The company was based in London.
Jarig Bakker, 23 July 2006
![[Pyman, Watson & Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfpwc.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 30 April 2021
George Pyman’s son John William Pyman set up Pyman, Watson & Co in Cardiff in
1874. Pyman, Watson & Co, Cardiff went into liquidation in 1964.
http://www.mariners-list.com/site_pages.php?section=Shipping+Companies&category=English&page_name=George+Pyman+
Mariners L
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the
house flag of Pyman, Watson & Co., Ltd. (#1351, p. 101), as blue with the white
letters "P W & C°".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#66
Ivan
Sache, 30 April 2021
