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V.Ships - 8 green and 7 white horizontal stripes
http://www.vships.com/
Dov Gutterman, 13 October 2003
image by Jarig Bakker
I have tried to draw the Vacuum Oil Co. Ltd. houseflag, which, thanks to
Ned's relentless ferreting we know now has a gargoyle in the center. Gargoyles
are decorative waterspouts that preserve stonework by diverting the flow of
rainwater away from building. The word gargoyle derives from the French
gargouille, or throat, from which the verb, to gargle, also originates. (
http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/gravely/gargoyle.html )
The Vacuum Oil co. was closely connected to Mobil Oil, a French company, from
which the gargoyle was popularized all over the Anglo-Saxon world, see the many
greasy cans on offer on Ebay (perhaps you noticed the bottom of the gallon
tin?). Mobil is now part of the Exxon conglomerate. Source: All about Ships &
Shipping, 1938
Jarig Bakker, 19 October 2003
Vacuum Oil Co. Ltd. The black marks shown by the All About Ships & Shipping
source are probably misleading, just like his post WW2 editions still showing
the livery when the company had merged prior to the war. Talbot-Booth shows it
without these marks in his 1936-1938 books, whilst Brown 1929 and 1934,
supported by Loughran 1979, show a version in the name of the American parent
company, again without these black marks, but with the emblem ensigned with the
black legend "GARGOYLE" in an arc.
Neale Rosanoski, 5 May 2004
See also: Vacuum Oil Co. Inc., (USA)
![[Vale Steamship Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfvas.gif)
image by Ivan Sache,
28 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Vale
Steamship Co., Ltd. (Andrew Crawford, Barr & Co.) (#967, p. 83), a Glasgow-based
company, as white with a blue "V" in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/48/
Ivan
Sache, 28 April 2021
![[Valiant Shipping Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~vsc.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 15 January 2006
Valiant Shipping Co. (London), Ltd., London - blue flag, white cross, red
saltire; in center on white red "V".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 15 January 2006
![[Van den Akker Bergings- en Transportbedrijf houseflag]](../images/g/gb~akker.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 29 August 2005
Van den Akker Bergings- en Transportbedrijf, Glasgow (Salvage- and Transport
company) - horizontal triband of green and white; on white black "AKKER".
(I think this is a misnomer: green-white-green are the Rotterdam colors and the
firm's name couldn't be more Dutch...)
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 29 August 2005
Might be this one, which is now Vlissingen-based, but started out somewhere
else. They appear, however, to use a different logo for the company itself.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 25 September 2005
![[Vedra Steam Fishing Company, Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfvsf.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
At the beginning of the war Sunderland had a small fleet of nine steam
trawlers. Five were owned by two small companies: The Wear Steam Fishing Company
Limited and the Vedra Steaming Fishing Company Limited. Three Sunderland
businessmen were the principle shareholders: W. S. Dawson of Dawson and Usher,
rope makers; Paul Wayman, a coal merchant; and James Hall, a fish salesman. Hall
owned the other four trawlers and a motor fishing boat.
https://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/story/13170/
Durham at War
Lloyd's
Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Vedra Steam
Fishing Company, Co., Ltd. (#700, p. 70) as horizontally divided
black-red-black.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/35/
Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
![[Adelphi Vergottis houseflag]](../images/g/gb~verga.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker
From Scott, R.M., The Caltex book of Flags and Funnels, Cape Town, Caltex Africa
Ltd. (1959).
Adelphi Vergottis, London - swallowtail per fly diagonal white over blue; two
small crosses countercharged.
Jarig Bakker, 2 January 2005
![[Vergottis (London), Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~vergo.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 10 January 2006
Vergottis (London), Ltd., London - blue flag, white cross, in center yellow
8-pointed star, red "B".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 January 2006
Vergottis London Ltd., as it can be guessed from the flag design, is one of
the oldest and most prestigious London based Greek shipping companies. The B
letter is a Greek Β (bêta), something between the western B
and V.
Ivan Sache, 13 January 2006
![[Vivian & Sons houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfviv.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 27 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Vivian
& Sons (W. Bryant) (#767, p. 73), a Devon-based company, as red with a white
diamond in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/38/
Ivan Sache, 27 April 2021
![[Vogt & Maguire Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~vogmg.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache
Vogt & Maguire Ltd. (London, United Kingdom -
http://www.vogt.co.uk/) - white V & M
combined to form a logo.
Dov Gutterman, 11 November 2003
Vogt & Maguire is an old company (more than 100 years old) specialized in
shipworking and liner agency.
Ivan Sache, 13 November 2003
![[Vulcan Shipping Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfvus.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 1 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Vulcan
Shipping Co., Ltd. (William Glen) (#1591, p. 112), a Glasgow-based shipping
company, as white with a red "G" in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#77
Ivan Sache, 1 May 2021
