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Sache, 21 April 2021
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image by Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "F. Yeoman" (#136, p. 43), a company based in West
Hartlepool, as
white with a blue saltire and a red rectangle in the middle.
The next flag (#137) in Lloyd's is similar, but with a red saltire and a blue
rectangle, as the house flag of "Joseph E. Murrell & Son",
also registered in West Hartlepool. There is indeed a "Murrell and Yeoman"
company mentioned in West Hartlepool.
Ivan Sache, 30 March 2008
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.
http://www.hhtandn.org/venues/4477/jh-murrell-and-co
Hartlepool History
Then and Now
Ivan
Sache, 21 April 2021
![[Worldfast houseflag]](../images/g/gb~yeow.gif)
image by Ivan Sache,
29 April 2021
The Yeoward Line, managed by Messrs. Yeoward Brothers, inaugurated their service
in the year 1899, and were known world-wide for their passenger tourist traffic
from Liverpool to Lisbon, Madeira and the Canary Islands.
The progress of the
company had been phenomenal, they had developed the study of the comfort of
their patrons to a fine art, whilst the inauguration of this line has also been
the means of providing the home markets with large regular supplies of Canary
bananas and other produce.
The success of this company is a good example of
enterprise in Liverpool of the early twentieth century.
Yeoward Bros., of
Liverpool, owned a fleet of three steamers that sailed every Wednesday from
Liverpool for the Canaries. The outward route is by way of Lisbon, Santa Cruz de
Teneriffe, or Las Palmas. and the journey occupies eight or nine days. The
homeward journey direct to Liverpool occupies six or seven days.
Their fleet
consisted of the S.S. "Ardeola", "Avetoro", and the "Avocet". (1908)
https://www.gjenvick.com/OceanTravel/SteamshipLines/YeowardLine.html
GG
Archives
The service continued until 1954 when their last ship was
scrapped. The company continued in the fruit trade, but used the Aznar Line of
Spain as carrier.
https://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/yeoward.shtml
The Ships List
The flag is shown, with the letters without dots, on a poster kept at the
National Museums Liverpool.
https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/yeoward-line
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2021
![[Worldfast houseflag]](../images/g/gb~yeow1.gif)
image by Ivan Sache,
29 April 2021
Yeoward Line originated in 1898 as Yeoward Brothers then in 1920 they
formed Yeoward Line Ltd. for their ship owning which ceased around the
mid 1950s. All sources agree that the yellow band was wider than the
red ones whilst Talbot-Booth states that there were actual
variations as to whether the letters had dots after them, no dots at
all or a hyphen between them.
Neale Rosanoski, 7 February 2005
There seems to be no agreement as to how the letters are written:
www.mysticseaport.org shows the flag with dots, no hyphen. On
their
timetable, the company shows "hovering dots".
Merseyside
Views shows no dots. The funnel on the
Ships List
shows just a letter Y.
Jan Mertens, 7 February 2005
![[Yorkshire Steam Fishing Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfysf.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 1 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Yorkshire Steam Fishing Co. (#1476, p. 107), a Hull-based fishing company, as
white with a blue border and a thin red saltire.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#72
Ivan Sache, 1 May 2021
![[Zapata Steam Shipping Co, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfzap.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 27 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Zapata
Steam Shipping Co, Ltd. ((M. Cail & Co.)) (#756, p. 72) as red with the white
letters "M.Z.".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/37/
Ivan
Sache, 27 April 2021
![[Zillah Shipping Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~zilla.gif)
by
Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Zillah Shipping Co. Ltd, Liverpool. A
blue, white blue tricolour with a red 'Z' 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.
The company originally comprised the fleet of William A. Savage & Co. Ltd of
Liverpool. After being bought by Coast lines in 1949, a new company was set up
under the name of Zillah Shipping Co. Ltd and Savage's 15 steam coasters were
transferred to it. The steamers were replaced by motorships between 1954 and
1958. The company was sold outright to Coast Lines
in 1967 and its fleet was sold or absorbed."
Jarig Bakker, 4 September 2004
![[Zillah Shipping Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~zill1.gif)
by
Jarig Bakker
Brown (1951) has for Zillah Shipping & Carrying Co., Ltd., Liverpool a
houseflag with a white field charged with letters ZLTD in varying sizes and dots
under the T and D.
Jarig Bakker, 4 September 2004
I may be wrong about some of the details as it is many years since I read the
original article from which I now quote, but William A Savage, the original
founder of the Zillah Line, came from a very prominent Nonconformist (i e, not
affiliated with the Church of England) family in the Liverpool area; I can no
longer recall to which denomination they belonged - Baptist, Methodist, Quaker,
Congregationalist, etc. Most of the members of this denomination tended not only
to intermarry with one another but also to give their children Biblical
forenames, usually drawn from the Old Testament. William's parents were unusual
in that they named him after the reigning sovereign (William IV), although his
middle name was Biblical. Zillah was William's mother's name.
Ron Lahav, 5 September 2004
The same (white) house flag is shown in Lloyd's Book of House Flags and
Funnels (1912) (#1370, p. 102).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#67
Ivan Sache, 30 April 2021
