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image by Jorge Candeias, 21 March 1999
Quartered per saltire in red (above and below) and white (hoist and
fly). A black chimney with two white stripes longitudinally centered and
based at the bottom.
Jorge Candeias, 21 March 1999
(Source: Company's website)
Al Fisher, 13 February 1999
image by Jarig Bakker, 31 January 2001
Houseflag of N.V. Nederlandsche Maatschappij voor de Walvisvaart, Amsterdam.
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached
to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 1 Feb 2001
Nederlandse Maatschappij voor de Walvischvaart N.V. Other sources [after
1956] show the cantons bands being equal and the letters being separated
whilst US Navy 1961 shows a very large "W" only positioned mid fly.
Neale Rosanoski, 25 Sep 2003
![[van Waning’s Zandzuigerij houseflag]](../images/n/nl~wani.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 31 Jul 2009
This ‘Kustvaartforum’
(i.e. coastal shipping discussion forum) page shows a number of photos
concerning van Waning’s Zandzuigerij (i.e. van Wanings’s Sand Extraction),
a Dutch company mining sand and gravel from rivers: A colourful, complicated
flag is flown on these specialized vessels.
I have not found out much about this firm but for the company seat
(at Kerkdriel on the River Maas) and the fact that it now belongs to the
Dutch Niba group itself owned by Hülskens
from Germany.
Luckily there is the house flag – no longer used, perhaps – as offered
on Martkplaats (Dutch auction site): no. 4928826613 accessed 2 Sep 2006,
its dimensions are given as 100 [cm] x 150 [cm] by “skip” (currently “skipvlag”
no doubt).
This is a heavily defaced Dutch national flag. The fly part above
a descending diagonal is yellow and bears, in the upper fly corner, the
company name in blue: “van Waning’s / Zandzuigerij”; in the flag’s centre
is placed a shield horizontally divided green-white-green, fimbriated white
within a green holding line; said shield bears a blue lower case letter
“b” (no serifs, but fimbriated white).
Jan Mertens, 30 Jul 2009
![[Water-Land Bevrachtingen]](../images/n/nl~wlb.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 13 May 2007
Spotted by Jarig: a house flag which turns out to be flown by Water-Land Bevrachtingen BV at Franeker, Fryslân. The name means “Water-Land Freighting” and indeed this company is engaged in inland shipping (freighting, heavy loads transport, and calibration).
Homepage with bedazzled (or dazzling) house flag, the only (slight) difference being the fact that the initials’ upper parts touch the white ring.
Now for a description: horizontally divided blue-white (narrow)-red-white-red-white (narrow)-blue, a thin wavy blue line in the central white stripe, near the hoist a white-rimmed blue disk bearing stylized and joined initials ‘WL’ in white.
If only the webpage flag would keep still – perhaps the white stripe in the middle is somewhat broader than the blue and red ones.
The last of the site's photos (FOTO’s, left menu) shows the flag (the
one on the left) flying on the ‘Diligentia'. See also this
Vlootschouw page concerning the ‘Concordia’ (again, the flag on the
left).
Proof - again - that smaller firms often have complicated flags...
Jan Mertens, 13 May 2007
![[van der Wees]](../images/n/nl~wees.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 1 Mar 2006
More specifically ‘A. van der Wees & Co. B.V. Schroefboot & Transportonderneming’, Dordrecht (the last part meaning ‘Screw-Driven Boat & Transport Company’), this firm is featured in “Duwvaart” by Jansen & Van Heck, pp. 109-111.
Website of
the Van der Wees group concerning water transportation, with an English
section (click Union Jack) I’m quoting from:
“As a transport company founded in 1907 specializing in transport on
the inland waterways between Delft and Dordrecht in The Netherlands, we
have grown into a leading player on the European Exceptional Transport
Market.
The Roll-on Roll-off principle, widely known on English Channel ferries,
has been developed for European river and canal purposes using flattop
as well as drive-in pontoons (…) Our flattop pontoons are all certified
for seagoing purposes, enabling us to carry out international transport
crossing North European seas or beyond. (…) In addition to executing
transports of for instance transformers, turbines, harbour cranes, vessels,
columns and airplanes we have regularly assisted the installation and removal
of bridges and roro link spans.”
Just clicking on the thumbnails in the sections ‘Boten’, ‘Pontons’
and ‘Projecten’ leads you to an impressive array of various sailing and
floating vessels.
Jansen & Van Heck give a detailed company history, I’ll just add
some highlights to the above. Founder’s name was Abraham van der
Wees. Worked for Shell starting 1917, transporting oil drums. Engaged
in passenger transport immediately after WWII as bridges, roads and railways
were damaged. Push navigation since 1961. Relocated from Delft
to Dordrecht in 1970.
The flag as shown by above authors in b/w is described as being brown
with a yellow initial W plus yellow waves and curlicues (placed beneath
the letter). As the
Van der Wees group also has an interest in road transport, we find
both means of transportation symbolized by the waves resp. the wheel shapes.
Jan Mertens, 27 Feb 2006
![[Wessels, NL version]](../images/n/nl~wess.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 30 Apr 2007
An unexpected find – although, come to think of it, there is logic in
it – the Wessel house flag we already have
at the FOTW German pages: in a Dutch version, photo of table flag, identified
as belonging to Wessels BV, Rotterdam.
Source: German eBay offer no. 270112804189 (by “kinksraydays”),
end 29 April 2007. As you can see, the design is fundamentally the
same – the letters are upright, though – but the national element is present
in the form of a Dutch flag image added to the initial-cum-ship ‘W’.
Life-size flags – on photo – can indeed be seen on the website
of ‘Rederij (i.e. shipping company) Wessels BV’: "in 1926, when Reinhard
Wessels' grandfather ordered a ship at the shipyard Van Diepen B.V. Waterhuizen
in Groningen, the first contacts and connections with the Dutch shipping
industry were made."
In 1997 Rederij Wessels BV was established at Rotterdam, a prime location
fot inland shipping and logistics – gaining over Cyprus, by the way!
The homepage mentions a company quay at the Waalhaven and fifteen
vessels active around Northern Europe and the Mediterranean. Operating
the ships is entrusted to Belmont Shipmanagement BV while crewing is assured
by Dutch Crewing BV and chartering by Arkon Shipping, Germany (which last
firm is partly owned by Wessels).
Jan Mertens, 30 Apr 2007
![[Wilton-Fijenoord houseflag]](../images/n/nl~wifi.gif)
image by Rob Raeside, 2 February 2011
Ton van Eijk sent me a description of the houseflag of Wilton-Fijenoord
(shipbuilding, 1929-1999): vertical red - white - red tapering; on white
the WF-emblem (emblem from this
site).
Jarig Bakker, 29 Apr 2008
![[Wijgand Fuel Transport houseflag]](../images/n/nl~wft.jpg)
image by Jarig Bakker, 17 Jan 2005
Found on a Binnenvaart page (click ‘Sponsors’ in left menu), the flag of J.F. Wijgand Fuel Transport, a Dutch bunkering firm (“since 1988”) established at Dinteloord (Steenbergen), on Noord-Brabant soil but near the Volkerak, one of Zealand's former sea-arms.
On that site (Wijgand does not seem to have one of its own) and is the
house flag: white with broad turquoise horizontal edges and what surely
is the company logo in the centre. The top stripe bears the name
‘J.F. Wijgand’ in white, italic and serifed, while the bottom one bears
the word ‘Fueltransport’, of similar appearance.
The logo consists of an orange disk, rimmed in turquoise, bearing a
monogram ‘JWF’ i.e. white initials ‘JF’ positioned – the ‘J’ somewhat lower
than the ‘F’ - above, and partly in front of, a white-rimmed turquoise
‘W’.
A number of Wijgand bunkering vessels, all called Fueltrans (mostly
with number added), can be seen on Ben
van der Westen’s site - Simply enter ‘wijgand’ in the ‘Eigenaar’
(i.e. owner) box.
Jan Mertens, 22 Dec 2006
![[Wijgula houseflag]](../images/n/nl~wgl.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 19 Jun 2006, after image on this
site.
Briefly mentioned in “Duwvaart” by Jansen & Van Heck, p. 138, Wijgula
really means Wijnhof & Van Gulpen & Larsen. First established in
Amsterdam and then 1972-1982 in Nijmegen, the company is now based at Druten.
Company website (with
English section) followed by quote from ‘Business profile’:
“Since its establishment in 1922, Wijgula B.V. has become one of the
leading inland tank-barging companies specialising in the transportation
of various bulk liquid products. For our customers we manage a fleet
of 42 modern tankships varying in size and onboard equipment. Our fleet
has a total loading capacity of 49,000 mt and a tank volume of 40,000 cbm.
(…) Wijgula BV Druten is a subsidiary of the Imperial Reederei-Group, in
which Imperial Logistics GmbH, Duisburg, has a controlling interest.”
The firm stresses the fact that it uses double-hull tankers.
This
page (in Dutch) contains additional information, relating among other
things the accidental meeting of a young German, Hans Larsen, with Mr Van
Gulpen who ran a chemical business in Amsterdam together with his business
partner, Mr Wijnhof. The three men founded the firm in 1922 and soon
started shipping sulphuric acid; other chemical substances were to follow.
(Although the name ‘Wijgula’ recalls their names, in the beginning this
was merely the telegraph address.) In 1991 the company became
part of Haniel Reederei in Duisburg, Germany, currently Imperial Reederei.
Jansen & Van Heck show the house flag in b/w and describe it as
an orange triangular pennant with a black cylinder (perhaps a drum, jm)
bearing white initials ‘WGL’. Wijgula’s website does not show this
pennant very clearly or prominently but the photo on this
webpage gives an idea.
Jan Mertens, 2 Mar 2006
Druten is in Gelderland province on the
river Waal, opposite the former nuclear plant of Dodewaard, which was closed
in the 1970's after huge demonstrations.
Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2006
You made a small mistake: Dodewaard was taken into service in 1969 and
was closed down in 1997.
Pieter Klein, 20 Jul 2008
![[Wijklijn houseflag]](../images/n/nl~smwl.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 18 Oct 2003
Stoomvaart Maatschappij "Wijklijn", Rotterdam - houseflag: white with
a Green St. Andre's Cross; the field at the hoist charged with a black
letter "E"; at the fly a black letter "D". Flown 1901-1987; ED stand for
Erhardt & Dekkers.
Source: houseflagchart attached to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel",
April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 18 Oct 2003
This was only one of the companies under which Erhardt & Dekkers
registered their ships, being the most appropriate with vessel names having
the suffix “wijk”. For some reason Dutch sources have noted the
livery under one or more of these subsidiaries rather than the owner which
would be more appropriate.
Neale Rosanoski, 7 Jan 2004
![[Van Wijngaarden houseflag]](../images/n/nl~vwij.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 21 May 2006
Van Wijngaarden Marine Services BV at Sliedrecht, on the Beneden ("lower") Merwede River, presents itself as a company operating tugs, tow/push vessels, survey boats, pontoons equipped with cranes, etc.
As the above vessels may be chartered, Van Wijngaarden helps out various dredging and construction companies around the world. The menu on the left side of the site leads to descriptions and photos, some of them rather impressive, detailing the kinds of services offered.
The company logo is an orange square bearing a blue ‘vW’ monogram, the
‘v’ nestling inside the ‘W’ the left arm of which ends in an arrowpoint.
Extended into a rectangle, it serves as the house flag which is seen on
the tug ‘IJsselstroom’.
I'm afraid the choice of colours is debatable.
Jan Mertens, 29 Apr 2006
...remarkably similar to the logo of Volkswagen!
James Dignan, 22 May 2006
![[Wijnne & Barends' Cargadoors- en agentuurkantoren BV]](../images/n/nl~wijnn.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 23 Sep 2005
Wijnne & Barends' Cargadoors- en agentuurkantoren BV. Originated
1855 as Wijnne Barends N.V. changing name at end of last century. The original
flag was white with the black letters "W&B" which was changed to the
version shown 4/1968. Brown 1978 shows a red version which I would normally
regard as a printing error but the Josef
Nüsse's site also shows this coloured flag making its actual existence
possible.
Neale Rosanoski, 25 Sep 2003
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World,
compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95].
Wijnne & Barends B.V., Delfzijl - triband of white and orange;
on orange two narrow bent white lines; at hoist white "W", at fly white
"B". The company website shows
its logo without top and bottom white stripe, while it has topleft a waving
flag with red instead of orange, and clearly visible white bottom and top
stripes.
Jarig Bakker, 23 Sep 2005
![[Wijnne & Barends new flag]](../images/n/nl~wijnb.gif)
image by Rob Raeside, 25 Aug 2009
Are you aware of the new houseflag for Wijnne and Barends, formally
adopted by them on 22nd August 2009 and notified (and illustrated) on their
web site at present?
J.L. Loughran, 25 Aug 2009
