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Rhenus Schiffahrt AG (Switzerland)

image by Jarig Bakker

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At Binnenvaartsite at http://www.debinnenvaart.nl/schependb/rederijvlaggentabel.php [partially retrievable] is a Rhenus houseflag: blue with a white diamond with a black sans serif "R". However, according to the same site, at http://www.debinnenvaart.nl/schependb/inhoud.php?action=tel&id=2676 [not archived] is the ship "Rhenus 125", owned by Rhenus Schiffahrt AG in Basel, Switzerland, now the "Liberty Anne", owned by United Cruise in Arnhem (probably a daytripper on the Rhine, or as Kees Kleinendorst used to say: a mozart)
Jarig Bakker, 14 September 2007

Jarig is quite right in pointing to the R-in-diamond flag as a precursor of the current Rhenus house flag. My new source "Flaggen auf dem Rhein" (1952 ed.) confirms this on p. 61 by showing one and the same flag for:

Rhenus Aktiengesellschaft für Schiffahrt und Spedition, Basel (i.e. Co. Rhenus for Shipping and Forwarding, Ltd, Basel)

Rhenus, Gesellschaft für Schiffahrt, Spedition und Lagerei m.b.H., Mannheim (i.e. Rhenus, Co. for Shipping, Forwarding and Warehousing Ltd, Mannheim).

The "Marcollect" site shows a collection of Stinnes-related house flags (table flag format) in which our two Rhenuses (meaning the old flag and the new one) are represented: http://www.marcollect.de/Flaggen_Bin.Schiffahrt.html [retrieved without pictures].
Third photo from top, Klaus-Peter Bühne differencing between the "Swiss Rhenus" (with "R" in blue however) and the "German Rhenus" (with slanted "L").

Jan Mertens, 15 September 2007