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![[Rheintank houseflag]](../images/d/de~rhet.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 17 May 2006
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Company website: Rheintank
has been a petroleum and oil supplier to inland navigation for more than
fifty years now (another source gives 1951 as the foundation year).
Also offered are drinking-water, paint, and other materials for bargepeople.
The company is not only active in the Rhine area but on the River Main
and in the former GDR as well.
As the one boat shown on the website does not fly the house flag, the
site’s flagoid will be pressed into service. Not counting the black
holding lines, it is horizontally striped WRW with the word ‘RHEINTANK’
in white letters on the red stripe.
Jan Mertens, 17 May 2006
![[Rheintank black]](../images/d/de~rhet2.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 Aug 2007
On 17 May 2006 I sent a message concerning this Duisburg supplier of
oil to inland navigation and joined a flagoid (ship visible on website
but no flag) which was giffed by Eugene and sent the same day.
Horizontally divided white-red-white, ‘RHEINTANK’ in white letters
on the red stripe.
Well… a Rheintank flag (along with Rhenus) is shown on this
page, photo is clickable: showing not white, but *black* letters.
Photo copyright by “AnSaGa”, taken
– it is said - on the left bank of the Rhine, near the railway port,
where Jaegers is situated.
Leaving me wondering why Rheintank’s site prefers white letters… or
why black letters are thought to show up better?
Jan Mertens, 6 Jun 2007
![[Rheintank pennant]](../images/d/de~rhetp.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 Dec 2010
The pennant variant confirms the black lettering.
Source: German eBay offer no. 170578551020 (end 19 Dec 2010)
Jan Mertens, 6 Jun 2007