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![[Gläfcke & Hennings]](../images/d/de~glhe.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 5 Aug 2008
Jorge Candeias wrote: This one is red with a big white star in the center, charged with a white castle outlined in black.
This is a long shot but... could it be Gläfke & Hennings, Hamburg? This firm is mentioned a few times on this
page, selling the occasional ship to the Deutsche Levante Linie.
A picture has been found, but the name is really Gläfcke & Hennings: see item from Massary cigarette album, 1930.
Name of source: "Flaggen ,die über Meere Völker verbinden" (i.e. flags connecting peoples across the seas).
The Hamburg connection was right on the dot, in fact the company seems to have had no second thoughts about appropriating the castle.
Here we see the "Polynesia" who once was owned by Gläfcke & Hennings from 1904 till 1921:
The company is reported within Mathies 1924 as existing from 1888 until 1899, and in 1904.
Jan Mertens, 26 Dec 2006
![[Gläfcke & Hennings und C. Staats]](../images/d/de~glhe_s.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 17 Mar 2004
According to source Hamburg shipowners register provides evidence of the company's existence at least from 1876 until 1888. The white flag is divided by a red saltire. In two quarters are red inscriptions: "GH" (hoist) and "St" (fly).
Source: Otto Mathies: "Hamburgs Reederei 1814 - 1914", Hamburg 1924, p.65
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Jul 2012
![[Furness Dampf Linie (Gläfcke & Hennings)]](../images/d/de~glhe_f.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 17 Mar 2004
It is a blue flag with a white capital "F" in the centre.
Source: Gratis Beilage zu Deicken und Behrmann's Neuen Monatsheften Neue Ausgabe Sommer 1897
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2012
![[Knotts Prince Line (Gläfcke & Hennings)]](../images/g/gb~knprl.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Jun 2012
In the middle of the red flag was the emblem of the Prince of Wales in white with light blue lining.
Source: Gratis Beilage zu Deicken und Behrmann's Neuen Monatsheften Neue Ausgabe Sommer 1897
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Jun 2012
![[Steam Navigation Co. (Gläfcke & Hennings)]](../images/g/gb~stngh.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 May 2012
The flag is blue with a yellow Greek cross in the centre.
Source: Gratis Beilage zu Deicken und Behrmann's Neuen Monatsheften Neue Ausgabe Sommer 1897
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 May 2012
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