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British shipping companies (S)

Suffolk Marine Ltd.
Summersfield Steamship Company Limited
Supervessel Express
B.J. Sutherland & Co., Ltd.
E.J. Sutton & Co
Swan Line, Ltd.
Wm. Swanston & Sons
Sylvia Steamship Co., Ltd.
Sydney Furneaux & Co.
W.T. Symonds & Co.

See also:

Suffolk Marine Ltd.

image by Jarig Bakker, 15 February 2006

Suffolk Marine Ltd., Lowestoft - Israeli-style blue-white flag; in center white "S".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 15 February 2006

Summersfield Steamship Company Limited

image by Jarig Bakker

Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels [Wedge 1926]

Summersfield Steamship Company Limited, Liverpool. White flag bordered red; in the center "S.Ltd." in red.
Jarig Bakker, 15 January 2005

Supervessel Express

image by Eugene Ipavec, 23 November 2007

Supervessel Express Co., Ltd at Southampton (GB) has a website, showing a flag resembling that of the Syrian firm Al Fahel:

“SUPERVESSEL EXPRESS LTD specializes in shipbrokering and chartering with the co-operation of Al Fahel Shipping Co.” The firm is a charterer and ship broker. This page, oddly, shows two variants (drawings) of the house flag. In the upper left corner of page: horizontally divided blue-yellow-blue in a 1:2:1 ratio it seems, a white oval in the centre partly extending into the blue stripes and on which is placed a blue stylized initial ‘S’ (serifed). Not only the oval, Al Fahel-like, is leaning to the right but the initial is shadowed in grey as well. On the right, lower down, we find a variant: horizontally divided blue-yellow-blue, a white diamond in the centre partly extending into the blue stripes and on which is placed a blue stylized initial ‘S’ (serifed).
Describing these flagoids may seem rather fruitless – even if a table flag shows up confirming one or the other we still do not know if a life-size one exists – but at least they are on record.
Jan Mertens, 20 November 2007

B.J. Sutherland & Co., Ltd.

image by Ivan Sache, 1 May 2021

B.J. Sutherland & Co., Ltd., Newcastle on Tyne.
Wedge 1926, Wedge (1951), Loughran (1979), and Talbot-Booth (1937) all have per saltire red (top and bottom) and blue (hoist and fly), with the letters positioned as shown (all white). According to Loughran it was founded 1892 and ceased operations in 1955.
Jarig Bakker, 17 April 2006

image by Ivan Sache, 1 May 2021

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows a similar house flag (#1569, p. 111), differing by the proportions (2:3) and the letters, outlined in black and with dots.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#76

E.J. Sutton & Co

image by Eugene Ipavec, 8 February 2009

Browns Flags and Funnels, 1951 edition (wed51).

The funnel in Browns Flags and Funnels, 1951 edition, is black, with a yellow band on which are 1 and 2 half dark blue diamonds. The house flag in the book is white with a black diamond on which is inscribed EJS & Co, in white over two lines. An anoymous painting submitted by a visitor to this site showed a flag with the letters on two lines.
Ralph Kelly, 7 February 2009

image by Ivan Sache, 25 April 2021

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the same house flag (#539, p. 62) with the letters on two rows.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#27
Ivan Sache, 25 April 2021

Swan Line, Ltd.

(Dixon, Sample & Co)

image by Ivan Sache, 23 April 2021

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Swan Line, Ltd. (Dixon, Sample & Co.) (#386, p. 55), a Newcastle-based company, as blue with a white swan.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#20
Ivan Sache, 23 April 2021

Wm. Swanston & Sons

image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021

Registered by James Huddart in 1893 as the Canadian-Australian Steam Ship Company, the line was to operate a service between Sydney, Brisbane, Honolulu, Victoria, British Columbia (BC) and Vancouver, BC. The Brisbane call was abandoned in late 1893 and replaced by Suva, Fiji. From August,1897 the route became Sydney, Wellington, Suva, Honolulu, Victoria BC, Vancouver. The company was reconstituted as the Canadian-Australian Royal Mail Steam Ship Company under the joint control of James Huddart and the New Zealand Shipping Company who took complete control of the line in 1898.
In 1900 the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand acquired a controlling interest in the company and assumed responsibility for outstanding contracts and agreements. In 1910 the purchase was completed and the Canadian-Australian Royal Mail Steam Ship Company became an integral part of the fleet of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.

The ShipsLists
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/canauroyalmail.html

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Wm. Swanston & Sons (#1746, p. 120), a Newcastle-based shipping company, as swallow-tailed, white with a red border, charged in the middle with a black "S".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/85/
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021

Sylvia Steamship Co., Ltd.

image by Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Sylvia Steamship Co., Ltd. (Henry Lloyd & Co.) (#929, p. 81), a Liverpool-based company, as white with a blue saltire charged in the center with a red four-pointed star and cantonned with the red letters "S" "S", "S" and "Co.".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/46/
Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021

Sydney Furneaux & Co.

image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Sydney Furneaux & Co. (#1808, p. 123), a London-based shipping company, as swallow-tailed with slanted horizontal edges, white with a red bird in the middle.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#88
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021

W.T. Symonds & Co.

image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of W.T. Symonds & Co. (#1728, p. 119), a Cardiff-based shipping company, as red with two blue triangles placed along the hoist and the fly, respectively, in the center, a white square diamond touching the blue triangles, charged with a black "S".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#84
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021

British Shipping lines: continued