Danish Shipping Companies (A)

Last modified: 2025-06-27 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Aabenraa Rederi-A/S
• Aalborg Portland A/S
• Aalborg Steamship Company (N.K. Stroyberg)
• Dampskibsselskabet Activ A/S
• Alfa Rederi I/S
• Adolph Andersen
• A. O. Andersen & Co. (D/S "Viking")
• A/S H. H. Andersen & Co
• A/S Rederiet Anholt
• Armada Shipping A/S
• Rederiet Arrenak I/S
• Firma J. Asmussens Eftf. (J.Asmussen´s successors))
• A/S Dampk. "Atalanta" (M.Nissen)

• Denmark
• Joseph Nüsse website
• House flags of shipping companies

Aalborg Portland A/S (Aalborg)

image by Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 2002

image by Jarig Bakker, 21 Oct 2005

Blue flag with a white disc charged with a triangle made of alternating blue and white lines (see left image above).
Source: Joseph Nüsse website
Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 2002

This logo is probably best known from Aalborg Portland´s main product: cement, as it is printed on the paper bags that the cement is sold in.
Ole Andersen, 15 Sep 2002

The 100 years anniversary flag was white a blue cement bag-label (see right image above).
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 21 Oct 2005

Aalborg Steamship Company (N.K. Stroyberg)

The company was surprisingly based in Aalborg. The flag was red with a centred, serifed, white initial "S".
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905, part V, group 3, image 538
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 May 2025

Dampskibsselskabet Activ, A/S

The company was based in København. The flag was quartered of red and white with white initials "S" (upper hoist) and "L (lower fly).
Source: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p.267, rnr.214
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 June 2025

Alfa Rederi I/S

The company was based in København. The flag was green with centred white disc cotised with red capital Alfa (looks like initial "A").
Source: US Navy 1961, p.3-17/row 2/column 2
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 May 2025

Adolph Andersen

The company was founded in Randers in 1851 by Adolph Andersen Sr., who took over and renamed the "Chr. Hennings" company, which had been founded in 1802. The flag is divided per saltire white-red-red-white with a blue "A" in the white quarters.
Source:company webpage
Dov Gutterman, 26 Oct 2003 and Ivan Sache, 29 Nov 2003

A/S H. H. Andersen & Co.

The company was based in København. The flag was yellow with blue disc and white inscription "HH" over "A".
Source: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p.266, rnr.189
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 June 2025

A/S Rederiet Anholt

The company was based in København. The flag was red with white lozenge with red initial "A".
Source: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p.259 , rnr.56
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 June 2025

Armada Shipping A/S

image by Ivan Sache, based on Joseph Nüsse website

The company was based in Fredensborg. It is a white flag with a big curvilinear green triangle including a small white triangle.
Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 2002

The company´s current logo (http://protokol.dk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Armada-Shipping.png, source: here) was designed in 1972 by Danish designer Aage Plener.
Esteban Rivera, 18 July 2020

Rederiet Arrenak I/S

The company was based in København. The flag is blue with a white reversed isosceles triangle with red initial "T" therein.
Source: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p.265, rnr.182
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 June 2025

Firma J. Asmussens Eftf. (J.Asmussen´s successors)

The company was based in København.
Source: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p., rnr.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 June 2025

A/S Dampk. "Atalanta" (M. Nissen) (reported 1926)

image by Jarig Bakker 19 Dec 200

The company was based in København. A red flag, white cross, over all stylised blue "A". Same type of "A" was used by the Danish Asiatic Company after 1802.
Source: Brown´s Flags and Funnels (Wedge 1926)
Jarig Bakker, 19 Dec 2004

Rederi A/S "Atalanta" (reported 1961)

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 May 2025

It was a blue-white blue horizontal tricolour with red 5-point star on the slightly broader white stripe.
Source: US Navy 1961, p.3-19/row 4/column 3
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 May 2025

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