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Collector's Corner version
![[Tage Berglund]](../images/s/se~b314a.gif)
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 2 November 2006
US Navy version
![[Tage Berglund]](../images/s/se~b313a.gif)
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 2 November 2006
From Gothenburg and apparently succeeding C.H.
Berglund. There are two variations of his flag with presumably the cap
badge from Collectors Corner being the more likely with a white flag
having a blue diagonal band from lower hoist to upper fly bearing 3
gold stars [see b314] and which is shown by the site
under the name of Rederi A/B Majviken which wasone of the companies
which Berglund operated. US Navy 1961
[8] varies by having the band from
upper hoist to lower fly and the smaller stars with their top point
angled in line with the band [see b313]. I have
funnel reports which support both versions so there is a possibility
that there was a change.
Neale Rosanoski, 24 November 2006
![[Tarbit Shipping houseflag]](../images/s/se~t446a.gif)
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 12 March 2007
Traded as Knut Holger Hermansson until 1995
although he was in partnership with Sture Svanström from 1962 and the
current company which had changed its name to Tarbit Shipping A/B is
jointly owned by the two families. The "Tarbit Shipping" name
originates from the tar and bitumen shipments which their vessels
carried though that has now been extended to chemicals and petroleum
products. The flag, shown on their website
www.tarbit.se and also on a
photo of "Oktavius" is, what I would classify as being, Swedish blue
[unlike the brighter blue of the funnel] with narrow white horizontal
bands near top and bottom and on the resultant middle broad blue band
the white letters "TBS" with the same
origins as the name.
Neale Rosanoski, 12 March 2007
![[Tarntank Rederi A/B]](../images/s/se~tarnt.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 12 January 2006
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World
[4]
Donso - yellow flag, blue disk, white flying bird beaked red..
Jarig Bakker, 12 January 2006
Formed 1958 according to Lloyds and based on a family concern going back to
1904 which began shipowning in 1914 according to the
company website which gives a better display
of the bird, which is a gull. The flag is confirmed by a cap badge on the Collectors
Corner site.
Neale Rosanoski, 21 September 2006
![[Tham Rederi]](../images/s/se~t438a.gif)
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 2 November 2006
Operated briefly by Gunnar Nyström of Nyköping at the end
of the 1950s having a blue pennant with a yellow "T".
Neale Rosanoski, 2 November 2006
![[Gustaf B. Thordén]](../images/s/se~s0324.gif)
by Phil Nelson
Source: Colin Stewart and John B. Styring: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours,
1963 [6].
Thordén Lines, Uddevalla.
Ole Andersen, 19 September 2000
Thore representation
![[Thore]](../images/s/se~thore.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 9 August 2005
Source: http://kommandobryggan.se/Bryggan/Rederi.htm
blue, yellow disk, blue "T"
Jarig Bakker, 9 August 2005
Thore representation
![[Thore]](../images/s/se~s0139.gif)
by Phil Nelson
Source: Colin Stewart and John B. Styring: Flags, Funnels and Hull
Colours, 1963 [6].
Letter should be blue as is shown by Stewart and judging by the badge in
Collectors Corner it is a lighter blue.
Neale Rosanoski, 5 August 2003
Medcalfe, Simpson affiliated company
![[Thore]](../images/s/se~m498a.gif)
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 21 September 2006
The company had origins in 1896 with Anders Andersson Thore of Jonstorp.
They had an association with the British firm of Metcalfe, Simpson & Co.
and apparently used the livery of that firm with Lloyds 1904 only showing
it under their name. The flag was white with a blue border and the red letters
"MS&Co". The 1912 edition [1] correctly names the livery to Metcalfe, Simpson
but notes that it was also used by A/B Thore. How long these colours were
used is unknown but Mitchell, Simpson only lasted from 1903-1917. The
Kommandobryggan website shows
this flag under the Thore company but ascribes it to Metcalfe, Son & Co.
which is incorrect though the latter company, which was formed in 1929 by
a son of the Metcalfe in Metcalfe, Simpson, continued an association between
them and the Thore family but they had a different flag and there is no
indication found that Thore ever used it. Anders Thore died in 1918 and
the last ship was sold but in 1922 his sons Josef Albert and Nils Martin
became involved in joint ventures and a series of small companies were developed
by the family. Josef continued to be based in Arild ceasing around the mid
1950s with nothing on a flag found. Nils, who was originally based at Jonstorp
shifted to Gothernburg pre-World War 2 and was the larger concern, being
succeeded by O.M. Thore and it is this branch of the family who are associated
with the flag as shown by Jarig.
Neale Rosanoski, 21 September 2006
![[Ragne]](../images/s/se~tor.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 9 August 2005White flag, in center black circle containing a smaller black circle;
in bottom three wavy blue stripes.
Jarig Bakker, 9 August 2005
I was Terminal and Stevedoring manager of Tor Line Ltd at the Port
of Immingham on the Humber Estuary from the inception of Tor Line in 1965
to 1986. Tor Line AB was formed by Rederi Rex (then owned by Ragnar Kallstrom)
of Stockholm) and Rederi Transoil of Gothenburg (thus TOR Line's name,
TransOilRex)
Michael Stamford, 5 July 2004
See also:
![[Tor Line]](../images/s/se~tord.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker 26 November 2005Gothenburg; white flag; at hoist the firm's funnel; at fly "TOR LINE"
in blue.
Jarig Bakker, 26 November 2005
![[Tare Ulff]](../images/s/se~u209a.gif)
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 24 November 2006
Out of Gothenburg, operating from the latter 1930s at
least until around the mid-1970s. Brown 1958 [13] and
US Navy 1961 [8] show a
blue flag with two very narrow horizontal yellow bands with the
central blue band thus produced being wider than the two outer ones
and bearing a yellow "U".
Neale Rosanoski, 24 November 2006
Collector's Corner version
![[Tage Berglund]](../images/s/se~t284a.gif)
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 24 November 2006
Dating from c.1937 until the end of the
1950s they operated as Rederi A/B Torsten with US Navy 1961
[8] and
Collectors Corner cap badges showing a gold flag with a blue border
and the blue letters "JC".
Neale Rosanoski, 24 November 2006
1904-1936
![[Transatlantik]](../images/s/se~rabt0.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 11 August 2005
Source:
http://kommandobryggan.se/Bryggan/Rederi.htm
Dark blue flag, yellow saltire, in all
quarters white "RABT".
Jarig Bakker, 11 August 2005
1936-1984
![[Transatlantik]](../images/s/se~rabt1.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 11 August 2005
Source:
http://kommandobryggan.se/Bryggan/Rederi.htm
The dates given by the Kommandobryggan website relate to changes
in the funnel colours and I image that the slight differences in the
flag portrayals come from the different sources where such anomalies
tend to appear as a result of the printing. Thus the flag is also
shown under Rederi A/B Transocean
from 1984 but with the funnel of that company as, according to that
website, this joint venture with Salénrederierna took over the
Broström line trade in 1984. Rederi A/B
Transatlantic was acquired by Bilspedition in 1988 with its last vessel
being sold in 1994 as Bilspedition liquidated its shipping interests.
Neale Rosanoski, 21 September 2006
