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image by Eugene Ipavec, 7 Jan 2010
Houseflag of N.V. Stoomboot Maatschappij "Zeeland", Vlissingen. Zeeland
Shipping Company - Harwich-Vlissingen.
Houseflag: blue, with White St. Andrew's Cross, and Gold Crown in center.
Image from "The dumpy book of ships and the sea" (ed. Henry Sampson,
published by Sampson Low, London, circa 1957).
James Dignan, 17 Oct 2003
The Mij. Zeeland, officially the "Koninklijke Nederlandsche Postvaart"
(Royal Dutch Mail Company), was in charge of the ferry Hoek van Holland
- Harwich for over 100 years.
Albert Kelder, 9 Jan 2009
The Dutch ‘Maritiem Digitaal’
data base shows the actual flag: just enter ‘rederijvlag’ in the search
box and start the search with images only: Page 10 shows results 234 and
237 the latter of which is preferred as the item is larger: 96 [cm] x 148
[cm]. Zoom function! Never mind the mysterious ‘Title’, this is a faulty
translation. In any case the object in question belongs to the Amsterdam
Maritime Museum and bears catalogue no. S.6872(094) whereas Hendrik
Veder (“creator”) is a sail manufacturer founded in 1800.
Jan Mertens, 6 Jan 2010
![[Scheepvaartmaatschappij Zodiak]](../images/n/nl~zodi.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 19 Sep 2007
N.V. Scheepvaartmaatschappij Zodiak, Rotterdam.
Flag: white field, in tophoist 5-pointed turned star, in bottom fly
"E", all blue.
(The funnel is black with a white hor. stripe interrupted by a white
diamond charged with "HOAG", of course).
Source: Wyt's Digest of Dutch Shipping and Shipbuilding 1966.
Jarig Bakker, 19 Sep 2007
image sent by Cees Schuller, 3 Jan 2010
Do you know anything about the ZAL (Zuid Amerika Lijn - South America
Line) a predecessor of the Kon Hollandsche Lloyd. Was there a houseflag?
I'm sending an image of a uniform-button along.
The ZAL existed between 1899-1908. On 19 July 1899 the Zuid-Amerika
Lijn (ZAL) was founded in Amsterdam. It got into trouble by several mishaps.
The Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij helped
solve these problems by starting a stronger company combining all activities
of the ZAL. That was the NV Kon Hollandsche Lloyd
(KHL), founded on 15 January 1908.
Cees Schuller, 3 Jan 2010
As the ZAL existed 1899-1908 it ought to be present in [LLo04]
which is the 1904 (first) edition of Lloyds Flags & Funnels.
I have no access to this book but now at least the house flag's design
is known.
Jan Mertens, 3 Jan 2010
image by Jarig Bakker, 1 February 2001
Houseflag of N.V. Zuid-Hollandsche Scheepvaart Maatschappij, Rotterdam.
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached
to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 1 Feb 2001
Zuid Hollandsche Scheepvaart Maatschappij N.V. This format of the white
band lying wholly on hoist and fly is supported by Wyt's Digest of 1960
but various Brown and Talbot-Booth editions show it centred on the respective
corners. The company appears to have come under the operations of Rederij
Theordora B.V. in the early 1970s and possibly used their livery thereafter
before disappearing from the scene at the end of the decade.
Neale Rosanoski, 25 Sep 2003
![[Zwaak houseflag]](../images/n/nl~zwaa.gif)
Miles Li, 28 May 2016
Another firm mentioned in Jansen & Van Herck’s ‘Duwvaart’ (1922),
however briefly, is Zwaak presented as related to Smit International featured
on pp. 88-94. Zwaak was founded with a view to operating lash barges,
LASH meaning “lighter aboard ship”.
However the oldest vessel mentioned on the ‘Binnenvaart’ site, belonging
to ‘Zwaak & Zn’ (i.e. Son) at Rotterdam dates from 1927, the oldest
belonging to ‘Zwaak Rivier & Duwvaart bv’ (i.e. Zwaak River and Push
Navigation) - as the company is called in above book - dates from 1964.
An intermediary stage may have been ‘Zwaak Jr bv’. Further information
was gleaned from discussion forums where we learn that Smit took over Zwaak
in 1975 as ‘Smit-Vos-Zwaak Rivier en Duwvaart’, Rotterdam.
Shown in Jansen & Van Herck in b/w, the house flag was blue with
a white diamond bearing a red initial “Z” without serifs. Direct link to
coloured image shown on ‘Binnenvaart’.
As a matter of interest, see this
page for the funnel: moving the mouse over the first camera logo (end
of page) will make a b/w photo appear where the Z touches the diamond’s
edges. No photo of flag found yet.
Jan Mertens, 3 Sep 2009
