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Shipping Companies' House Flags (Finland), I-O

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Ilmari Tuuli

[Ilmari Tuuli house flag]
image by Phil Nelson
Source: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours [6]


John Nurminen O/Y

[John Nurminen O/Y house flag]
image by Phil Nelson
Source: Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours [6]


Langship A/S

[Langships house flag]
image by Jarig Bakker, 1 October 2005
Source: Brown’s Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World, 1995 [4]

Pikio - red and white flag in a rather unusual arrangement. (Pikio = Piikkiö, near Turku; Swedish name: Pikis)
Jarig Bakker, 1 October 2005


Lundqvist Rederierna - group

Swallow-tail version
[Lundqvist Rederierna house flag]
image by Jorge Candeias, 3 December 2005

Rectangular version
[Lundqvist Rederierna house flag]
image by Jorge Candeias, 3 December 2005

One of the biggest and today propably the oldest company in Finland is Lundqvist Rederierna - group. At its present form, the company has been formed in 1927 though the roots of the company go as far as 1850s.

Company's head office is in Mariehamn, at Aaland Island and is operating mainly in tanker market, thus also Ro-Ro activities existing. Whole tanker fleet of the company is now so called double skin tankers, which average age is four and a half years.

The flag was designed in 1952 by Capt. Unto Lindberg. Company's funnel mark have similar design.

Proportions: 17 : 4 : 5 : 4 : 17
Horizontal: 30 : 30 : 23
L = 17 : 11, width 4 units
Diamond: 37 : 30

Capt. Pekka Aarniaho, 8 December 2002


All other sources show a normal rectangular flag.
Neale Rosanoski, 2 December 2003


Neste O/Y

[Neste]
image by Jarig Bakker, 5 December 2005
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World [4]

Espoo - blue flag; in center a bright blue and a green triangle, together forming an "N".
Jarig Bakker, 5 December 2005


Oy Hacklin, Ltd.

[Oy Hacklin Ltd.]
image by Jorge Candeias

[Oy Hacklin Ltd. alternate]
image by Jorge Candeias

Blue with a white lozenge centered and a bold blue "H" in the center of the lozenge. The original picture had not only this, but also a flag in reverse colours painted on a truck. This could be a used variation.
Jorge Candeias, 18 March 1999


Shipping operations appear to have been through O/Y Werner Hacklin which was noted in Lloyds until about 1960 with O/Y Hacklin Ltd. now not involved directly in shipowning or operating. The 1st flag of blue with the white diamond bearing the blue "H", which seems to be the main flag and appears on their website, is shown by Brown 1951 (somewhat incorrectly with a smaller diamond) and was the band on their funnels. The other 2 flags possibly relate to their other activities or may be just logos.
Neale Rosanoski, 2 December 2003


[Oy Hacklin, Ltd., another alternate]
image by Phil Nelson

Another image at the Oy Hacklin website a simple blue italicized letter "H" within a white diamond lozenge upon a blue field. Operations: road and sea transportation, stevedoring and storage.

From their corporate information:

Hacklin - established in 1908

28 December 1908 is considered the date on which the Hacklin Group was founded. On that date Werner Hacklin, a sailing ship stevedore from Reposaari, and his elder brother signed a contract to start stevedoring in the Meri-Pori area. Having started in Reposaari, operations were gradually transferred to the port of Mäntyluoto.

Phil Nelson, 4 February 2000