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Albrecht & Co (German Shipping Company)

Mineralölwerke Albrecht & Co., Hamburg

image by Jorge Candeias, 4 Dec 2004

Albrecht & Co.
Mineralölwerke Albrecht & Co with pale
Mineralölwerke Albrecht & Co without pale

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Albrecht & Co.

The flag is vertically divided in two parts with a narrow black stripe separating them. The hoist part is a horizontal tricolour of white, blue and red a-la russian. The fly part is white with a large, red, "A" initial, centered.
Jorge Candeias, 4 Dec 2004

Mineralölwerke Albrecht & Co.The company was based in Hamburg. A mite more information on the obsolete history page of Kloeckner (www.kloeckner.de/en/welt/geschichte/1930_1949.html;jsessionid=EBB2FEB64658708EE5926EE3F43448AC) now Deutsche Shell AG. In any case, the firm was involved in oil transport.
Source: Lloyd 1912, image no. 570
Jan Mertens, 5 Dec 2004

Mineralölwerke Albrecht & co
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Mar 2007
Mineralölwerke Albrecht & co. - Since 1920 the company used this new flag: The white flag was divided by a vertical black bar in to equal parts. In the flyend is a red serifed capital "A", at the hoist is a horizontal black over white over red tricolour.
Source: Jürgen Meyer: "Hamburger Segelschiffe von 1795-1945", ISBN 3-89225-400-1; Hamburg 1999; cover inside.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Mar 2007

Mineralölwerke Albrecht & co
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Aug 2019
The flag was white. In the flyend is a red serifed capital "A", at the hoist is a horizontal black over white over red tricolour. In 1933 the company ran a line from Hamburg to the Black Sea and did inland shipping on (European) rivers. It owned two tankers and one inland tanker.
Sources: Massary 1928, series 1, image no.161 and Lloyd 1933, p.13, image no. 78
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Aug 2019

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