![[Van Laar Maritime]](../images/n/nl~vlm.gif)
image by Matijn Nekkers, 10 November 2021
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image by Matijn Nekkers, 10 November 2021
Van Laar Maritime BV in IJmuiden originates from 1925. The company operates a
fleet of guard, seismic support and multipurpose vessels, mainly involved in the
offshore oil and wind farm industry. They own a shipyard in the port IJmuiden as
well.
Sources: private observation (2015), Lekko magazine and
Binnenvaartkrant
Matijn Nekkers, 10 November 2021
![[Van Laar Maritime]](../images/n/nl~vlm0.gif)
image by Matijn Nekkers, 10 November 2021
![[Laga en Vredebest]](../images/n/nl~lagv.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 24 Jul 2008
A site dedicated to Rotterdam’s colourful – and partly maritime – past “Rotterdammers” seems to be down again. They had a page titled (Dutch, old spelling) “Maatschappij-vlaggen en schoorstenen der voornaamste Reederijen Rotterdam in 1925” i.e. Company flags and funnels belonging to the most important shipping companies at Rotterdam, 1925. This suggests the house flags had been taken from a chart or some other publication.
‘Stoomvaart Maatschappijen "Laga" en "Vredebest"’ or ‘Steam Shipping
Companies “Laga” and “Vredebest"' apparently flew the same house flag,
blue bearing a white triangle based on the flag’s lower edge (the apex
does not touch the opposite edge), and black combined initials ‘TR’ on
said triangle. ‘TR’ may have been the owner’s (or partners’) initials but
I have been unable to find the name(s).
I also do not know if there is any connection to the Delft-based rowing
club of that name, or where the second name (litt. “Peacebest”) comes
from: family name, place, other?
Well, there are some traces… ‘Mont Rose’ was built in 1917 for
Vredebest; the freighter ‘Mont Cenis’ was operated by 1921-22 by Laga;
ex-Horn Linie ‘Claus Horn’ - in British hands - was sold to Vredebest in
1921, sailing as ‘Karl’ only to be resold three years later; Vredebest
sold ‘Neckar’ to OPDR in 1927.
Jan Mertens, 18 Jul 2008
![[Lensen houseflag]](../images/n/nl~lense.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 28 January 2005
A.C. Lensen, Terneuzen.
Flag: white field, blue italic "L".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship
Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 28 January 2005
![[Lenten houseflag]](../images/n/nl~lent.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 Aug 2008
Now and then there appears a well-designed flag flown by a tiny shipping
enterprise, and then it fully deserves recognition. The Lenten house
flag is such an example, my source being the on-line
Schuttevaer (Dutch shipping biweekly, no. 9 of 22 Apr 2008, pp. 30,
31, and 33): (select 2008 / 09 in upper left case). P. 30 presents vessel
'Antonie' as sailing for NPRC, an inland bargemen's
commercial association and p. 31 presents Lenten, a third generation shipping
family active in NPRC since 1984.
'Antonie' was acquired in order to become one of the association's
five large vessels and will ship salt from Delfzijl to Rotterdam for the
next three years, hence the specially equipped hull.
P. 33 shows the revamped barge in all its glory, the bow fittingly
adorned with the NPRC flag and another one, surely representing Lenten:
white triangle based on the hoist, its apex touching the fly, defining
two triangles, the upper one red and the lower one blue (national colours);
near the hoist is placed a large black initial 'L' (serifed). Several logos
on p. 33 appear on flags already known e.g. De Waal, Van Wijk, Schepen
Onderlinge, or Fiwado.
Already the ship has its Vlootschouw
page (but then that site is maintained by Binnenvaartkrant),
On the legal side, 'Antonie' is owned by VOF Lenten & Zoon Scheepvaartbedrijf
(Partnership Lenten & Son Shipping Enterprise) established at Nieuwegein,
a town S. of Utrecht linked to the River Lek leading to Rotterdam.
Jan Mertens, 8 May 2008
![[Levant houseflag]](../images/n/nl~leva.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 24 Jul 2008
A site dedicated to Rotterdam’s colourful – and partly maritime – past “Rotterdammers” seems to be down again. They had a page titled (Dutch, old spelling) “Maatschappij-vlaggen en schoorstenen der voornaamste Reederijen Rotterdam in 1925” i.e. Company flags and funnels belonging to the most important shipping companies at Rotterdam, 1925. This suggests the house flags had been taken from a chart or some other publication.
Here is the the house flag of ‘Cargadoors- en Scheepvaartkantoor "Levant"’.
The name means ‘Shipbroker’s and Shipping Office “Levant”’.
The flag was divided quarterly: top and bottom triangles red, hoist
and fly triangles white plus a blue disk in the centre bearing a white
initial ‘L’. (I suppose none of the black holding lines are significant.)
These are the national colours, not unimportant in view of the fact
that this Dutch “Levant” was the local office or branch of the well-known
shipping company ‘Deutsche Levante Linie’
which had adopted the German national colours, then current: Obviously
the branch flag was designed after that of the main office.
Here
we encounter ‘Arta’ aka ‘Pontos’ which was operated for Deutsche Levante
by the Dutch office 1920-1925, and ‘Derindje’, second of that name, same
situation 1920-? for Hapag.
Jan Mertens, 17 Jul 2008
![[Van der Linden houseflag]](../images/n/nl~vdli.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 29 Jun 2006
This is a “Lithuanian” house flag – that of Van
der Linden-Schiehaven, company seats at Delft and ’s-Gravendeel. Website
of this inland navigation operator:
As you can see, horizontal, yellow-green-red colour bands adorn these
webpages.
Some history from the ‘ons bedrijf’ (i.e. our company) section: founded end of the nineteen forties by Dirk Arie van der Linden as an earthworks firm which expanded after the 1953 dyke disaster, when construction sites went up everywhere. This was followed by extensive ground preparation works for housing developments. In the ‘seventies, two distinct Van der Linden firms addressed the need for sand supply and transport plus construction, respectively. At the moment Van der Linden operates three ships, transporting sand, and two unloading quays.
Have a look at the ‘Merwestad’ barge, first photo of two, in the ‘schepen’ (i.e. ships) section. Not only is there a shield in the company colours (bearing ‘vdL’ initials in yellow on the green stripe) on the bow, but the house flag is also in evidence (I have no idea about the mainly red flag though).
Then there is this Binnenvaart page showing the ‘Prinsenstad’, where we see the shield again and, in the upper left corner (on the terminal) a board showing the house flag with yellow initials.
Admittedly the Van der Linden site shows the ‘Maasstad’ in front of the same terminal but there the painted flag, and the one on the crane, are unclear (first photo – on the second, a lorry door shows the initialled flag as well).
Lastly, the ‘kippers’ section (meaning lorries!) shows, again,
the house flag on the doors.
Jan Mertens, 27 Jun 2006
![[P.W. Louwman houseflag]](../images/n/nl~pwl.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 23 Apr 2008
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag
of "P.W. Louwman" (#286, p. 50), a company based in Rotterdam, as red with
a white diamond charged with the black letters "PLW" in the middle, the
"L" being bigger than the two other letters.
Ivan Sache, 23 Apr 2008
![[Lusitania houseflag]](../images/n/nl~lusit.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005
Jan Mertens reported this link
with mainly Dutch houseflags. Lusitania - dark blue flag, divided Czech
style by red "Y" fimbriated white; on three blue parts "CPL". The website
specifies: "NED" - Dutch.
Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005
The main color of the flag of the Lusitania Lijn was green, not blue.
Additional info: the line had two gastankers: Lingegas and Merwegas (now
both of Unigas). The manager was P. Mandemaker.
Cees Schuller, 13 Feb 2006
![[D. Lijnzaad houseflag]](../images/n/nl~dl.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 18 Sep 2007
D. Lijnzaad N.V. Transport en Handelmaatschappij, Rotterdam.
Flag: green over white bicolor; in center a flower with orange heart
and white petals; on white "DL". ("Lijnzaad" = linseed, seed of
flax).
Source: Wyt's Digest of Dutch Shipping and Shipbuilding 1966
Jarig Bakker, 18 Sep 2007
Note that the flower has nothing to do with a five-petaled flax
(Linum spp.) flower. It looks rather like a daisy flower head ("composed
flower").
Ivan Sache, 18 Sep 2007
