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G. Tarabochia & Co. Srl at Trieste, Italy are a shipbroker
and agency. Website (in English) at <www.tarabochia.com>.
From the ‘Company Profile’: founded 1864 by a family
from Lussinpiccolo (now Mali Lošinj, Croatia) as a shipping
company and agency representing Austrian firms such as
Austro-Americana and Austrian Lloyd. Important in this
respect was Italian emigration to the Americas.
Despite setbacks due to both World Wars Tarabochia “besides
its activities of Insurance Company, Claims Agents, Forwarding
Agents, Crew Manning Agents and Logistic, as Ship Agents activity
(...) has a long and great experience and a tested organization
in handling Liners, Tramps, Ro/Ro, Cruises and all types of
Vessels”.
Two Tarabochia offices are located at Trieste, a third one at
nearby Monfalcone and foreign offices as Koper, Slovenia and
Rijeka (Croatia). (Before WWII there was an office at
Genoa as well.)
A flagoid is at <www.omniainformatica.it>:
White saltire defining blue fields (top, bottom) and red fields
(hoist, fly), black combined initials “GT” (the “G”
smaller) in the centre within a double circle shown in black
outline.
Jan Mertens, 19 January 2010
image by Peter Hans van den
Muijzenberg, 24 January 2011
Shipping agency of Trieste, Tarabochia (often spelled with –cc). Briefly
mentioned is the company’s past as a shipping operator. Tarabochia flew a
completely different house flag as seen here (first item):
http://www.webalice.it/cherini/Naviglio/galleria.htm. Vertically divided
blue-white-blue, three five-pointed stars horizontally
positioned and
counterchanged.
As the company was named “Tarabochia e Soci.” at one point
the stars may well represent the owners...just speculating.
Jan Mertens,
24 January 2011
image by Jarig Bakker, 19 September 2005
TARROS Line (Traghetti Autotrasporti Rapidi Rogioni
Organizzazione Sarda S.p.A., Cagliari) - white, a blue outlined
rectangle, a yellow rectangle and the firm's logo in the center.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of
the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 19 September 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 13 July 2004
From "The dumpy book of ships and the sea" (ed.
Henry Sampson, published by Sampson Low, London, circa 1957):
"Tirrenia" Societa Anonima di Navigazione: Blue with a
diagonal running from honour point to bottom fly. The diagonal is
yellow over red. In upper fly, a capital "T" (white?),
in lower hoist a Lion Passant regardant (possibly crowned,
possibly yellow?).
James, 18 October 2003
The "T" is yellow; lion uncrowned.
Sources: All about Ships and Shipping, 1938, 1959;
Lloyd's Calendar 1959.
Jarig Bakker, 18 October 2003
At the 1940 page at <www.24flotilla.com>:
"Tirrenia", Naples - The lion is almost rampant –
on the other hand there is not very much space to ramp about in!
Jan Mertens, 5 January 2008
TOREMAR as well as Caremar and Siremar
belong to the state-owned ‘Tirrenia di Navigazione’
Jan Mertens, 30 November 2008
new version
image by António Martins, 28 December 2008
old version
image by Jarig Bakker, 28 October 2005
Toscana Regionale Marittima S.p.A. (TOREMAR), Livorno -
horizontal triband BWB, blue slanting fanged "T".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of
the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 28 October 2005
TOREMAR or ‘Toscana Regionale Marittima’, an Italian
shipping (ferry) company established at Livorno (Leghorn).
The new flag is shown here
(top row): The blue horizontal stripes are smaller and the blue
initial ‘t’ larger, and lower case. Flickr
photo showing that flag (albeit small).
However the company
website shows a ‘t’ traversed by two parallel
horizontal lines.
TOREMAR as well as Caremar and Siremar belong to the state-owned ‘Tirrenia di Navigazione.
Jan Mertens, 30 November 2008
See also: Navigazione Toscana
image by Eugene Ipavec, 1 August 2006
According to <www.theshipslist.com>
- Founded in 1904 and based at Genua, the ‘Transatlantica
Italiana S.A. di Navigazione’ was part of the deal when
Hamburg America Line bought Ligure Brasiliana in
1913. A year later, the firm was renamed
‘Transatlantica Italiana’ and finally in 1915 the
Germans were pushed aside – Italy had entered WWI on the
side of the Allies.
In 1916, then, Transatlantica was bought up by ‘Società
Nazionale di Navigazione di Genova’, member of the Gruppo
Ansaldo. As the name says, the company operated lines across the
Atlantic, connecting Italy to New York and South
America. But when the Ansaldo Group went out of
business and conditions worsened, Transatlantice started selling
off the ships and ceased to exist in 1934.
For the house flag, see
this ticket at <zallio.hollosite.com>
and poster, showing – seemingly – a double-sided flag
as we can read the initials from left to right at <www.gbreda.it>.
It shows a red swallow-tailed flag with a white five-pointed star
in the centre, within a white laurel wreath, and white initials
‘T’ and ‘I’ to the left and right of the
star, respectively (but they seem to have black
‘insides’ which do not show up on the flag in the
poster.). On metal advertising plaque from a German agent, active
1924-1928 at <www.uni-klu.ac.at>,
the initials are firmly black, fimbriated white.
So it seems Transatlantica's flag had three colours, after all.
Jan Mertens, 10 June 2006
image by Jarig Bakker, 13 July 2004
Probably the old flag
image by Jarig Bakker, 13 July 2004
The houseflag of Agenzia
Tripcovich S.r.l (from Trieste), can be seen at <www.tripcovich.com>.
Dov Gutterman, 26 October 2003
The old flag is after Brown's Flags and Funnels (1951) - there
is a brilliant rendition of the logo on a sail at <www.tripcovich.com>.
Tripcovich Shipping Agency was established on November 11, 1895,
by Diodato Tripcovich, born in 1862 in Dobrota, Gulf of Kotor,
from a family having deep-rooted seafaring traditions.
Jarig Bakker, 13 July 2004
According to the company website Diodato Tripcovich formed
Ditta D. Tripcovich Società di Armamento e Agenzia Marittima
which later, going by an image, became Società di Navigazione D.
Tripcovitch & Ci. This image includes a red sail bearing a
white foul anchor between the white letters "S" and
"A" and this is the flag shown by sources from Lloyds
1912 to Stewart 1963 and although Lloyds 1904 shows a version
with the anchor being without the cable. By the beginning of the
1980s, by which time the title is shown as D. Tripcovich & C.
S.p.A. di Navigazione Rimorchi e Salvataggi, the ship owning
activities only involved tugs and this appears to have ceased
briefly before Lloyds show Armamento D. Tripcovich S.r.l. being
formed in 1984 and again operating sundry tugs and research
vessels until around the end of the century but whether they used
the previous flag is not known. The current firm of Agenzie
Tripcovitch S.r.l. with their biband pennant and yellow anchor
are apparently the modern descendent, being involved in port
agency and associated functions.
Neale Rosanoski, 15 July 2004
At the 1940 page at <www.24flotilla.com>:
"Tripcovich", Trieste - Initials and (foul) anchor are
somewhat bigger but then our image is a reconstruction. See also
1912 Lloyds under no. 900 `D. Tripcovich, Trieste, at <www.mysticseaport.org>.
Jan Mertens, 5 January 2008
image by Eugene Ipavec, 4 January 2008
Linking Naples and Catania (Sicily) – and now Taranto as
well - this Italian ferry company maintains a website
(in Italian) at <www.tttlines.it>. The firm
operates two ships, ‘Partenope’ and
‘Trinacria’, names which recall Naples and Sicily; the
acronym means ‘Tomasos Transport & Tourism SpA’.
Company seat is Naples. The conditions of transport
(‘Condizioni di Trasporto’, left menu) lead to pdf
files which, oddly, show the house flag upside down (indirectly
confirmed by the presence of a reassuringly ‘balanced’
star on the ships’ bows and the funnels). The brochure
(same, left menu) does better: sky blue field, two narrow white
stripes parallel to the horizontal edges, between said stripes a
white disk bearing a yellow five-pointed star. One point
up!
‘Sky blue’ as the flag may be found elsewhere –
also a drawing, by the way – having a much darker field at
<www.federazionecampeggiatoripiemontesi.it>.
Clear photo (copyright G. Linizhuber, 2007) with
admittedly dark field, last on the page at <www.ferry-site.dk>
flying on the bow of ‘Partenope’.
Some company history gleaned from this
page (note the similar funnel): Of Greek origin (Leros,
Chios), Emmanuel Tomasos started shipping in the Mediterrenean
and the Black Sea from 1886 on. His son Constantino – note
the Italian form – founded ‘Constantino Tomasos
Trasporti Marittimi’, a shipping agency, at Naples in 1910.
After WWII the family invested in bulk ships and – later
– tankers. Tomasos Brothers Inc. has offices in
Piraeus and Naples, the latter being the seat of TTT Lines
concerning us here.
Jan Mertens, 2 January 2008
The houseflag of
Valentino Gennarino S.r.l can be seen at <www.gennarini.net>.
Dov Gutterman, 4 November 2003
The houseflag of
Valtomar Shipping S.r.l can be seen at <www.valtomar-shipping.com>.
Dov Gutterman, 4 November 2003
image by Eugene Ipavec, 29 December 2009
The laguna and river craft operator Veneziana di Navigazione
SpA was established at Venice, not the famous fashion company
bearing the same name (nor even the pre-war shipping company with
a very similar name) Website, Italian only, at <www.venatrasporti.it>.
The ‘Flotta’
(i.e. fleet) page for an overview of the various waterborne
workhorses. These vessels or floating equipment include tugs,
pontoons (motorized or not), barges, and motorboats in various
sizes, adapted to the special environment they service.
I could not find a photo of the house flag (one vessel has it
painted on) but there an image of it included in the the complete
logo. The flag itself is white, bordered red, bearing a large red
initial “V” without serifs.
Jan Mertens, 20 December 2009
image by Jarig Bakker, 14 July 2004
This Vetor Aliscafi houseflag can be seen at the company site
at: <www.vetor.it>.
Dov Gutterman, 23 January 1999
The flag of Vetor Aliscafi (Italy) is a white logo on blue.
What does the logo look like?
The original image is way too small to see.
Jorge Candeias, 13 February 1999
I guess it's a large V - but I wouldn't be surprised if it
wasn't a houseflag at all...
Jarig Bakker, 14 July 2004
Vetor Aliscafi should be Vetor Sr.l. being formed 1971 by
Torquato Vecchiarelli and now incorporating all of his shipping.
The website image is now a bit clearer and appears to be a light
bright blue bearing a large white "V" though the font
is unclear.
Neale Rosanoski, 15 July 2004
Earlier version
image by Jarig Bakker, 14 July 2004
Later version
image by Jarig Bakker, 14 July 2004
Villain & Fassio, Soc. Italiana di Nav. Mercantile p. A.,
Genoa.
Earlier version - from Loughran (1979): same flag as "Fassio", but with blue letters
V&F on white.
Same company - later version from Loughran (1979): White with a
red St. George's cross; in the canton the old company flag.
Jarig Bakker, 14 July 2004
