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![[Amer Ship Management Ltd.]](../images/i/in~hfasm.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2012
Josef Nuesse shows the flag of Amer Ship Management Ltd., a Mumbai-based
company, as horizontally divided orange-white-orange with the red letters
"ASM" in the middle.
http://www.flagpole.de/reedereiflaggen/welt/asien-i/
Ivan Sache,
4 May 2012
![[Apcar & Co.]](../images/i/in~hfapc.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 29 March 2008
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels
(1912) shows the house flag of "Apcar & Co. (Apcar Line)" (#133, p. 43), a
company based in Calcutta, as divided red-white-red-white by a blue saltire.
Quoting Wikipedia:
"For more than a century the Apcar Family was prominent in commerce and industry
in India.
[...]
Apcar & Co acted as general business agents and insurance brokers and controlled
the Apcar Line. The Apcar Line ran a fleet of five vessels from Calcutta
carrying Chinese coolies and cargo, largely to and from Singapore, Hong Kong and
Amoy (Xiamen), with connections to Japan. Pirates were active, and well into the
twentieth century, the ships had to be armed and sandbagged against attacks.
Apcar & Co also entered the coal business. In 1862 coal seams were discovered
near Raniganj and Asansol. Apcar & Co purchased an extensive stretch of land and
started a mine at Lachipur (4 miles from Asansol). They also opened coal mines
at Charanpur, Faridpur and Borachuck. A large number of Armenians either owned
collieries or worked in various capacities in the coalfields. Seeing the rapid
development of the coalfields, European firms purchased large areas from Apcar &
Co on a royalty basis and started to mine the coal. As a result Asansol became a
large and developed mining district. On 27 February 1912 Apcar & Co, ships,
workshops and mines, were sold to the British India Steam Navigation Company for
Rs 800,000 and absorbed by BISN. Sailings from Calcutta to Japan were still
advertised as being conducted by the Apcar Line into the 1950s. The coal mines
were managed by Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co until 1951."
The biography of
J.C. Clare (1853-1940) mentions that, in 1875-1880, he "served on the opium
steamers of Apcar & Co., Calcutta, trading between Hong Kong and Calcutta."
The Apcar line is briefly mentioned on the British
India Steam Navigation Co. page.
Ivan Sache, 29 March 2008
![[Flag of the British Virgin Islands]](../images/v/vg~binn.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 27 April 2009
Binny Shipping Ltd and Binny Ship Management Ltd at Tortola (British Virgin
Islands) are two companies active – as the names state – in different sectors of
shipping both however being concerned with dry bulk. Website at <binnyship.com>.
Management includes the few ships operated by the shipping division while in the
past, important Indian companies such as Scindia were customer. The shipping
division, founded in 1988, currently has two vessels sailing under the
Panamanian flag; further expansion is planned. Report on the temporary
seizure (luckily resolved) of ‘Nirmal Bhushan’ in Iraq at <www.themarineworld.com>.
Shown as a drawing on the site, the house
flag is dark blue having a rather small black disk in the centre, bearing a
red initial ‘B’.
Jan Mertens, 11 January 2009
Binny Ship Management Pvt. Ltd. is shown by Lloyds as based Mumbai, India and
was started in 1988 by V.B. Verma as a ship management company becoming a ship
owner in 1995. I know the website stresses the British Virgin Island connection
but this seems to be a case of subsidiaries being based in a more favourable tax
resort, with their ships being registered in Panama. The flag home probably thus
originates from India.
Neale Rosanoski, 8 August 2009
![[Bombay & Persia S.N. Co., Ltd.]](../images/i/in~bp.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker
Bombay & Persia S.N. Co., Ld., Bombay - white with Spanish style green
stripes. Possible connection with the Mogul Line.
Jarig Bakker, 18 February 2005
![[Bombay Steam Navigation Co. Ltd]](../images/i/in~bsn.gif)
image by
Jarig Bakker, based on
National Maritime Museum website
Based on the National Maritime
Museum website, the house flag of the Bombay Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.,
Bombay, is a white burgee with a red five-pointed star in the centre. The flag
is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is
machine sewn.
Jarig Bakker, 5 August 2004
![[Century Shipping Co., Ltd.]](../images/i/in~csc.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker
Century Shipping Co., Ltd., Bombay - blue-white-blue triband, red logo in
center.
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 September 2005
![[Flag of Chowgule Steamships Ltd.]](../images/i/in~chowg.gif)
by
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Chowgule Steamships Ltd., Bombay - orange swallowtail, white "C".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
![[Damodar Bulk Carriers Ltd.]](../images/i/in~dbc.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker
Damodar Bulk Carriers Ltd., Bombay - red flag, white disk, red "D".
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 28 September 2005
![[Flag of Dempo Steamships Ltd.]](../images/i/in~dempo.gif)
by
Jarig Bakker, 7 February 2006
Dempo Steamships Ltd., Bombay - blue flag, white diamond, red "D".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 7 February 2006
![[Flag of Essar Shipping Co., Ltd.]](../images/i/in~essar.gif)
by
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Essar Shipping Co., Ltd., Bombay - white flag, a blue arrow-like item.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
![[Flag of Everret Shipping Co., Ltd.]](../images/i/in~evert.gif)
by
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Everett (India) Pvt., Ltd. is a diversified Indian shipping and travel
company. Its house flag can be seen at
http://everett.co.in/travel_clients.htm.
Ron Lahav, 10 November 2007
![[Flag of Five Stars Shipping Co., Ltd.]](../images/i/in~fiss.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 June 2007
The house flag (flagoid) of the Mumbai based Five Stars Shipping Co. Pte Ltd.
can be found at
http://www.shippingdirectory.info. It is divided per saltire in black
portions (left and right) and red ones (upper and lower), the name-giving five
stars – in white, six-pointed, and resting on two points each – placed in the
centre of each triangle, and one in the flag’s centre.
The accompanying text is derivative, rather see
the company website:
Five Stars Shipping – founded in 1985 – has all aspects of ship management on
offer such as technical and crew management (including training). Most of the
cared for vessels are bulk ships. The site “banner” on top shows a logo
consisting of a blue triangular sail bearing five five-pointed stars in a
diamond pattern, however the ‘Contact us’ section shows a vague impression of
the house flag showing all stars next to each other.
PS: this firm is not to be confused with the Chinese-Australian ‘Five Star
Shipping’ nor the Myanmar 'Five Star Line'.
Jan Mertens, 22 January 2006
![[Flag of Garware Shipping Corp.]](../images/i/in~gsc.gif)
by
Jarig Bakker, 7 February 2006
Garware Shipping Corp., Ltd., Bombay - yellow flag, red "G".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 7 February 2006
![[Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd]](../images/i/in~geast.gif)
image
by Ivan Sache
The Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd. (Mumbai/Bombay)
Flag
diagonally divided red-green, with AHB in blue placed on a white rectangle in
the middle of the flag.
Ivan Sache, 31 August 2002
Example of flag at
flags.seeleute.net:80/great.jpg
from Josef Nuesse's website.
Olivier Touzeau, 27 November 2024
![[Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd]](../images/i/in~g123.gif)
image
by Rob Raeside
Josef's flag varies from those shown by shipping sources which may indicate changes along the way. The colours are agreed to by the 1966 Liverpool Journal of Commerce sheet but it shows the letters on a white diamond. In support of this version is the fact that it appears as a panel on the funnel as confirmed by photos.
![[Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd]](../images/i/in~g122.gif)
image
by Rob Raeside
On the other hand Brown 1995 changes the red to orange and reverses the direction of the dividing line to upper hoist to lower fly, again showing a [smaller] white diamond and blue lettering.
![[Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd]](../images/i/in~g34.gif)
image
by Rob Raeside
A subsidiary was formed in the UK
at the beginning of the 1990s as The Great Eastern Shipping Co. London
Ltd. with Brown 1995 showing their flag as also a diagonal biband of orange and
green, this time divided from lower hoist to upper flag, with overall a back
"G".
India Steamship Co. Ltd. For some reason several sources, including the
latest Browns, show the flag with the point downwards, which is even
more surprising when their funnel images, where the flag [sic] appears
as a band, in all cases is shown with the point upwards.
Neale Rosanoski, 18 June 2004
![[Flag of Havers Lines PVT., Ltd.]](../images/i/in~hlp.gif)
by
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Havers Lines PVT., Ltd., Calcutta - blue flag, yellow circle, containing a yellow embattled tower.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
![[Flag of Himalaya Shipping Co., Ltd.]](../images/i/in~himal.gif)
by
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Himalaya Shipping Co., Ltd., Calcutta - yellow flag, blue "H"-like item.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
![[India General Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.]](../images/i/in~igsn.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker, based on
National Maritime Museum website
Based on the National Maritime
Museum website, the house flag of the India General Steam Navigation Co. A
rectangular flag quartered in red and blue with a white cross. In the centre is
a five-pointed red star. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting.
It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn.
Jarig Bakker, 17 August 2004
Example of flag at
flags.seeleute.net:80/india.jpg
from Josef Nuesse's website.
Olivier Touzeau, 27 November 2024
![[India Steamship Co. Ltd.]](../images/i/in~instm.gif)
image
by Ivan Sache
India Steamship Co. Ltd. (Calcutta)
Red flag with a yellow flag in the middle.
Ivan Sache, 31 August 2002
![[Indian Co-operative Navigation & Trading Company]](../images/i/in~icntc.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker
Indian Co-operative Navigation & Trading Company, Bombay - horizontal triband
white-green-white; in center red Maltese cross.
Jarig Bakker, 18 February 2005
![[Indian Shipping Co., Ltd.]](../images/i/in~isc.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker
Indian Shipping Co., Ltd., Calcutta - red flag, yellow 5-pointed star. (The
star is standing on one point; the funnel has the star on two legs, and Brown
1951 (Wedge, 1951) has that too - see
India Steamship Co. Ltd.).
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 28 September 2005
![[Indus Container line]](../images/i/in~indu.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 30 November 2006
One of the companies represented by Belgian agent Durot at Antwerp, Indus
Container Line, is established at Mumbai, India. The most I could find on this
firm – not very much in fact – can be read at the Durot website:
http://www.durot.be/services/indus.htm. Apart from Mumbai, the company has
offices at eight other cities in India, not all of them harbours. The only
European ports sailed to are Antwerp and Rotterdam, it appears.
Simply designed, the house flag (flagoid) is light blue bearing an orange
initial ‘I’. Surely this item will turn up sooner or later on a photo or in a
flag & funnel book...
Jan Mertens, 30 November 2006
![[Flag of Jayshree Teas & Industries Ltd]](../images/i/in~jti.gif)
by
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
Jayshree Teas & Industries Ltd, Calcutta - red flag yellow outlined "J".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels
Jarig Bakker, 18 November 2005
![[Larsen & Toubro Ltd.]](../images/i/in~lt.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker
Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Bombay - blue flag with the company
logo in center.
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 September 2005
![[Larsen & Toubro Ltd.]](../images/i/in~lt2.gif)
image
by António Martins-Tuválkin
A slightly different design was given by a flat flag photo in 12 January 2002 by "Jakdustyca":
The shade of blue is darker, the flag ratio is smaller, about 5:8, the outer ring is smaller, the star's tips protrude outside the outer ring, the central disk with "LT" is much smaller, the inner discs are black, not blue, and there is no outer black ring around the central disc.
This is from Joseph Nüsse's site of house flag photos, namely from page http://flags.seeleute.net/118.htm .
António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 November 2005
![[Mogul Line Ltd.]](../images/i/in~mogul.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker, based on
National Maritime Museum website
Based on the National Maritime
Museum website, the house flag of the Mogul Line Ltd, Bombay, India. A
flag with three white and two green horizontal stripes. The flag is made of a
wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn.
Jarig Bakker, 17 August 2004
![[Ocean SParkle Co. Ltd.]](../images/i/in~ocspa.gif)
image
by Ivan Sache
Apparently square, with central blue field on a white one edged by a
red-and-yellow border (upper and right border of flag red, other borders yellow,
diagonally divided).
Ocean Sparkle Ltd was founded in 1995. Activities: towage, lighterage and port
management. The firm cooperates with the famous Dutch Wijsmuller group. The
company was the first in India to use steel barges and tugs for cargo lighterage
instead of the traditional wooden barges. It currently owns 12 barges, two
harbor-towing tugs and two ocean going tugs.
Seat: Hyderabad. WebsiteL
http://www.oceansparkle.com/
Jan Mertens, Ivan Sache, 3 April 2004
![[Sanmar]](../images/i/in~sanmar.jpg)
image located by António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 November 2024
From: flags.seeleute.net:80/sanmar.jpg
![[Scindia Steamship Navigation Co. Ltd.]](../images/i/in~scind.gif)
image
by Ivan Sache
The Scindia Steamship Navigation Co. Ltd. (Mumbai/Bombay)
Blue
flag with a red swastika placed on a white disc in the middle of the flag.
Ivan Sache, 31 August 2002
Example of flag at
flags.seeleute.net:80/scindia.jpg
from Josef Nuesse's website.
Olivier Touzeau, 27 November 2024
![[Scindia Steamship Navigation Co. Ltd.]](../images/i/in~scin0.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker
Loughran (1995) shows a flag with a smaller
version of the disk and swastika.
Jarig Bakker, 28 September 2005
![[Shipping Corporation of India Ltd.]](../images/i/in~shipc.gif)
image
by Ivan Sache, 31 August 2002
The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd. (Mumbai/Bombay)
Example of flag at
flags.seeleute.net:80/shipco.jpg
from Josef Nuesse's website.
South India Shipping Corp. Ltd., Madras - blue flag, in center white diamond
charged with blue "SIS".
Surrendra Overseas Ltd., Calcutta - white field, in center "APV".
Texmaco Ltd., Calcutta - white flag, blue diamond, white "T".
Thakur Shipping Co., Ltd., Bombay - blue flag, a stylized trident.
Tolani Shipping Co., Ltd., Bombay - white flag blue top and bottom stripes;
red "T".
Tolani Shipping Co. Ltd. The Tolani Group started in 1950 in the construction
industry and gradually extended its interests in various activities entering
shipping in the 1960s. From 1980 it concentrated on its shipping interests and
gradually divested itself of the other interests until today when it is involved
in shipping and education with the latter through the Tolani Education
Foundation. Lloyds Groups describe it as the Tolani Group of Shipping Companies
and earlier there were subsidiary divisions but in 2003 the shipping interests
were consolidated under Tolani Shipping Co. Ltd. The flag shown as a logo on
their website [it is currently not available being under maintenance] has since
2002 [when it started] shown yellow bands, not blue and they seem to me to be wider with the white occupying about
half the field. The Brown editions of
Flags and Funnels (1982) and Flags and Funnels (1995) show that the flag forms the funnel band whereas current ships have my version
with yellow bands. There thus seems to have been a change but I have funnel
records which give the yellow bands version applying to a couple of vessels
which were scrapped in 1981 and 1993 respectively which seems to suggest that
they have been used for some time without reports reaching Louis Loughran.
Ivan Sache, 31 August 2002
Olivier Touzeau, 27 November 2024
South India Shipping Corp. Ltd.
![[South India Shipping Corp. Ltd.]](../images/i/in~sis.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 September 2005
Surrendra Overseas Ltd.
![[Surrendra Overseas Ltd.]](../images/i/in~apv.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 September 2005
Texmaco Ltd.
![[Texmaco Ltd.]](../images/i/in~texm.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 September 2005
Thakur Shipping Co., Ltd.
![[Thakur Shipping Co., Ltd.]](../images/i/in~thaku.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 28 September 2005
Tolani Shipping Co., Ltd.
![[Tolani Shipping Co., Ltd.]](../images/i/in~tolan.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker
Source:
Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 28 September 2005![[Tolani Shipping Co., Ltd.]](../images/i/in~tolani.gif)
image by Ian MacDonald, 10 April 2011
Neale Rosanoski, 28 March 2011
