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Sache, 22 April 2021
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image by Ivan
Sache, 22 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
W.A.
Souter & Co. (#188, p. 45), a Newcastle-based company, as green with a yellow
wheat sheaf.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#10
Ivan Sache, 22 April 2021
![[Saint Line Ltd. (America) houseflag]](../images/g/gb~saint.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
UK and Continent - South America;
Houseflag: white, with red St. Andrew's cross; white field edged red in center,
containing rising sun over Tudor rose.
Jarig Bakker, 17 October 2003
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Saint Line Ltd (America), London. A white
rectangular flag with a red saltire. There is a white shield in the centre with
a red and yellow sun motif. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre
bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn."
Jarig Bakker, 27 August 2004
South American
Saint Line. Some sources show the saltire as reaching the edge of the flag. I
have come across a description of the emblem stating that the rising sun or
flame effect is in fact the upper half of a gold star with 5 point showing
surmounting the upper half of an orange estoile or star of wavy points with 6
showing in the appropriate spaces. The lower half of the design, also in gold,
is referred to as "a lower wheel shape" consisting of the outline only.
A Tudor Rose would certainly explain the background seeing that the
company was Welsh based. The 1961 US Navy publication shows orange in
place of red on the flag but there appears no reason for this. The
company seems to have been absorbed by Houlder Bros around
1970.
Neale Rosanoski, 24 May 2004
image by Jarig Bakker, 12 December 2007
The flag was red with a white line towards the top and bottom edges. In the
middle was a white rectangle with the letters SEGB in blue. SEGB were colliers
that used to run between the north east ports and London.
Mike Davison, 30 November 2007
The flag was red with a white line towards the top and bottom edges. In the
middle was a white rectangle with the letters SEGB in blue. The funnel was black
with a white band; this bore three narrow red lines to top and bottom and in the
centre a white rectangle outlined red, with SEGB in blue.
There is a history of the company's ships by D. Ridley Chesterton, 'Gas and
electricity colliers: the sea-going ships owned by the British gas and
electricity industries', published by the World Ship Society in 1984.
Ian Sumner, 11 December 2007
![[Southern Steam Trawling Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfssw.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Southern
Steam Trawling Co., Ltd. (#1823, p. 123), a Milford Haven-based fishing company,
as white with a red border and a red cross, charged in the respective quarters
with the red letters "S", "S", "T" and "C".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#88
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
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 South Georgia Co. Ltd. A white flag with
a red diamond in the centre on which is a white- bordered blue cross. The flag
is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is
machine sewn."
Loughran (1979) writes: "Chr. Salvesen & co.,
Ltd., had Norwegian origins, and the device of the center of the flag is derived
from the national flag of Norway. It owned the South Georgia Company."
Jarig Bakker, 29 August 2004
South Georgia Co. Ltd. was formed in 1916 whereas the parent company dates
from1846 when the Norwegian brothers Christian and Theodore Salvesen set up
business in Edinburgh. In shipping they were involved in whaling and post WW2
these interests declined until by 1990 they withdrew from shipping and are today
a logistics company. The flag is normally shown under the Salvesen name and the
earliest source I have come across is Reed 1901 which shows the flag as having a
blue border but this may be an error with Lloyds 1904 on showing the version as
shown here.
Neale Rosanoski, 13 February 2005
![[Southampton Steamship Coal & Patent Fuel Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfssc.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache, 23 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of the
Southampton Steamship Coal & Patent Fuel Co. (J. Ledger Hill) (#373, p. 54) as
blue with a white "H" in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#19
Ivan Sache, 23 April 2021
![[Southdown Steamship Company, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfsos.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
the
Southdown Steamship Company, Ltd. (Bell, Symondson & Co.) (#658, p. 68), a
London-based company, as blue with a white saltire, charged in the center with
the blue letters "SS" inscribed in a white disc outlined in blue.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/33/
Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
![[Speeding, Marshall & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfsma.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Speeding,
Marshall & Co. (#1836, p. 124), a Sunderland-based shipping company, as white
with the blue letters "S M & Co" enclosed in a red ring.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#89
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
![[Spillers & Bakers, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfspb.gif)
image
located by Ivan
Sache, 30 April 2021
The Spillers business originated in Bridgwater, Somerset, where Joel Spiller
established his first flour mill in 1829. Within a few years, he had expanded
into other areas of England and Wales. He and his business partner, Samuel
Browne, opened their first Cardiff mill at the West Dock in 1854.
In 1889 the
Cardiff milling business was merged with William Baker and Sons of Bristol to
form Spillers and Bakers Ltd and, by the early 1890s, the company was operating
from several separate premises – mainly in Collingdon Road. After several
further name changes, the Spillers milling business was acquired in 1979 by
Dalgety who later sold it on to the Kerry Group. By then, though, the Cardiff
operation had ceased.
Their location close to the docks provided
opportunities for the company to source grain from overseas as well as British
outlets and, for some time, Spillers and Bakers had its own fleet of ships.
https://glamarchives.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/spillers-and-bakers-ltd-cardiff/
Glamorgan Archives
A Spillers and Bakers "Pilot" biscuit that
survived the "Titanic" sinking was sold at auction for $23,000 in October 2015.
The biscuit, similar in shape and color to a cracker, was part of a collection
from James and Mabel Fenwick, newlyweds who were beginning a three-month
honeymoon trip to Europe in 1912 aboard the SS "Carpathia", the ship that ended
up rescuing survivors of the "Titanic", according to auction house Henry
Aldridge & Son.
The auction house called the relic the “world’s most valuable
biscuit.” The item sold for around $8,000 more than it was expected to receive.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/biscuit-survived-titanic-sinking-sold-auction-23000/story?id=34737427
ABC News, 26 October 2015
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels
(1912) shows the house flag of Spillers & Bakers, Ltd. (#1279, p. 97) as white
with a red border and the blue letters "S & B", surmounted by nine yellow wheat
spikes.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#62
Ivan Sache, 30 April 2021
