![[RASM houseflag]](../images/n/nl~rasm.gif)
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image by Jarig Bakker, 1 Jan 2005
Rotterdamsche Algemeene Stoomvaart Maatschappij, Rotterdam - red flag,
white diamond, black "RASM".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship
Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 1 Jan 2005
![[Rensen Shipbuilding houseflag]](../images/n/nl~rens.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 6 Jul 2006
One of the flags seen on the Verbeke Bunkering vessel inauguration photoshoot is white with a green logo (for background, see message of 1 June 2006). See ‘Photos’: page 5, sixth row (picture 4) and last or seventh row (picture 2).
Site of the company in question, Rensen
Shipbuilding established at Zwijndrecht
– the Dutch one, not the Belgian – on the Nieuwe Maas River opposite Dordrecht:
As explained in the introduction, Rensen – founded by George Rensen
- has been building inland navigation vessels for a quarter of a century
now totalling more than 250 units. So-called casco’s or hulls
are built in Romania, Russia, Poland, etc. and Rensen equips them be it
tankers, bulk ships, or other kinds.
Buying and selling vessels, or counselling in that respect, is another or Rensen’s activities. This includes selling off vessels traded in when having a new one built. A separate firm, Rensen-Driessen Scheepsmakelaardij, takes care of this part of the business.
Lastly, since 2004 the firm also develops projects and designs ships, specializing in units up to 15000 dwt but under the name of Rensen Seatrade BV. See English version of separate pages. (The company logo in this last source is blue but there is only the trace of the flag with a green one, so let us be content with that for the moment.)
The logo is placed on a white flag above the company name ‘RENSEN’ in
bold black serifed letters; suggesting the bow of a ship, the left part
of the logo is linked to a stylized initial ‘R’ (white dots represent the
‘opening’ of the R). The foot of the logo is rendered sinuously,
suggesting waves.
The Rensen enterprise was probably founded in 1980 according to this
press-release.
Jan Mertens, 3 Jul 2006
![[Van Riemsdijk houseflag]](../images/n/nl~vari.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 12 Apr 2006
A name which crops up now and then in “Duwvaart” by Jansen & Van Heck is “Van Riemsdijk”, accompanied by different initials indicating members of a family active in push navigation, at least when the book was published i.e. 1988.
As usual a b/w picture of the house flag is given, to be found under “Eurobulk” (pp. 32-36) in above book. It is described (additions by me, jm) as being yellow with (a broad horizontal) blue stripe and a white monogram ‘VR’ (in the middle). According to the picture, the stripes are arranged 1:2:1 and the ‘R’ is wide enough to tuck a much smaller ‘V’ under it.
To give an idea, have a look at these funnels showing the monogram on
this
site.
Base of operations of this family, whose members seem to have had their
own ships, was Rotterdam.
Jan Mertens, 11 Apr 2006
![[Roes Scheepvaart houseflag]](../images/n/nl~roes.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 Apr 2009
‘Roes Scheepvaart & Transportovername BV’ (i.e. Roes Shipping and
Freighting Co.) is a Dutch firm established at Rotterdam, active
in inland shipping in the Netherlands and its neighbouring countries plus
Switzerland. The company presents itself as family owned and having
been founded more than 25 years ago. Website
(Dutch and German only): Freights of 250 metric tonnes and more are accepted:
goods transported may be non-ferrous metals, ore for scrap, sand,
gravel, cattle fodder, etc. including project cargo.
The house flag is shown on the ‘Missie en Visie’ (i.e. Mission and
Vision) page: Royal blue bearing the company logo in vivid red (seemingly
not orange as appearing on the website header). The logo consists
of an italic, stylized initial ‘R’ accompanied on the right by a ‘C’-like
extension ending in two arrows and embracing the cut-out form of a further
arrow going into the opposite direction (towards the ‘R’ in fact).
Jan Mertens, 21 Apr 2009
![[Roodhart Group houseflag]](../images/n/nl~roodh.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 26 May 2009
Why not letting the Dutch Roodhart Group present themselves
since they do it so well: “Roodhart is a corporate group of companies located
in the Netherlands and United Kingdom. The Roodhart group is dedicated
to providing both products and services to industrial and marine industries.
Founded in 1982 by John de Roode."
There are four main areas of activity: emission control (pump,
valves, etc.), marine services (spare parts, engineering, and repairing),
industrial pumps, and mechanical seals. I suppose the marine services justify
treating the company flag as a house flag in the usual sense.
Of very simple design, this flag is red (Dutch "rood") bearing the
name "ROODHART" in white letters without serifs, taking up about one third
of the field:
Jan Mertens, 26 May 2009
![[Rotterdam-London houseflag]](../images/n/nl~rls.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2005
Rotterdam-London Stoomvaart Maatschappij, Rotterdam - blue flag, white
castle (?)
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship
Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2005
![[Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij]](../images/n/nl~rdm.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 29 Apr 2008
Ton van Eijk sent a jpg file with the houseflag of Rotterdamsche
Droogdok Maatschappij (Rotterdam Drydock Company): three horizontal stripes
of blue and white. It was used on steamtugs; one of them can still be seen
in the Leuvehaven in Rotterdam.
Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2005
![[Ruycontrans houseflag]](../images/n/nl~ruyc.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 6 Jul 2006
Ruycontrans BV is established at Werkendam on the Boven Merwede River.
Described in various commercial internet directories as a freighting and
(container) transportation firm, it has a modest web
presence, mentioning a Mr Ruytenberg who may well have given his name
to the firm. And showing the flag: red with a large blue diamond touching
the edges and a large yellow initial ‘R’, serifed, on the diamond.
Jan Mertens, 5 Jul 2006
![[]](../images/n/nl~rhit2.gif)
![[]](../images/n/nl~rhit.gif)
The former house flag of Dutch shipping company
Rhinecontainer as offered on German eBay, no. 290166176246 (end 7 Oct 2007) put
up by ‘shipflag’. Approximate dimensions of this small item flag given as 15
[cm] x 24 [cm].
It shows a flag the two thirds of which consist of a
panel divided by a descending diagonal, blue over white; at the fly end, this
image is repeated twice i.e. one above the other.
It is possible to read the fly segment as an initial “R” but I do not know if
this was done deliberately. Jan Mertens 30 Dec 2011
![[]](../images/n/nl~rhitw.gif)
a Rhinecontainer promotional flag
We see a large white flag bearing three times ordered horizontally - the
company logo in blue plus the company name in black ”RHINECONTAINER B.V.” plus a
blue horizontally placed rectangle.Jan Mertens 3 Jan 2010
![[Van Rijckevorsel houseflag]](../images/n/nl~vary.jpg)
image sent by Jan Mertens, 21 Jan 2010
Another discovery I owe to Maritiem
Digitaal, Dutch data base with search page here: Type ‘Rijckevorsel’
into search box and tick the box “Toon alleen...” then hit “Zoeken”. The
resulting list presents various coloured images of ships one of which,
‘Gouverneur Schomerus’, is a water colour made by Jacob Spin in 1853 and
held by the Dutch Maritime Museum at Amsterdam, inv. no. S.1931(02).
This is the source of image above: white field bearing black serifed
initials “HVR” representing Rotterdam shipowner H[uibert] van Rijckevorsel.
Various ships may be found mentioned on the ‘net as being built for
or operated by Van Rijckevorsel, the time bracket being 1841 (earliest
year found) till 1863. In that year the company went into receivership
and was wound up two years later. By then at least some ships had
been taken over by Rotterdam competitor H. Muller & Co.
Additional background information on HvR’s African trade (passim) here.
Jan Mertens, 21 Jan 2010
![[Rijn-Lloyd houseflag]](../images/n/nl~ryll.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Mar 2009
An example of a “seven-stripe Lloyd flag” – referring to the ‘Lloyd
Seeschiffahrt’ pattern, seven black and yellow horizontal stripes and a
local symbol in the canton – is the one flown by ‘NV Rijn-Lloyd Scheepvaart-
en Expeditiebedrijf, Rotterdam’ (i.e. Rhine Lloyd Shipping and Forwarding
Company Ltd, Rotterdam) as it appears in ‘Flaggen auf dem Rhein’ (1952).
Here, the local element is represented by a green canton (four stripes
high) bearing a white ascending diagonal stripe surely alluding to the
office location, Rotterdam.
Given the flag pattern (based on an archivexillum) and the company
name I suppose that it was a local branch or subsidiary of Lloyd Seeschiffahrt.
To be confirmed!
Image from above book. The diagonal stripe is visibly smaller
than the black and yellow stripes, but on these pages here
and here:
a b/w photo appears showing the barge ‘Schouwen’ with – as it seems – the
diagonal having the same width as the horizontal stripes: So the design,
followed in this by the Binnenvaart site, has to be amended in this regard.
Various vessels are mentioned on the ‘net documenting activity between
1947 and 1978.
Jan Mertens, 29 Aug 2008
Lloyd AG; Basel and its daughters
NV Rijn-Lloyd Scheepvaart en Expeditiebedrijf, Rotterdam was a Dutch
daughter. The date of foundation I don’t know.
Klaus-Peter Bühne; translated by Klaus-Michael Schneider,
27 Mar 2009
