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image by Ivan Sache
Source: Lloyd's book of house flags and funnels of the principal
steamship lines of the world and the house flags of various lines of sailing
vessel [1] #2038
The flag is horizontally divided red-white-red with H.J.S. (black) in the
white stripe.
Ivan Sache, 24 January 2004
image by Jarig Bakker
Source: The Caltex book of Flags and Funnels [15]
#184 H.K. Wallem, Norwegian and Panamanian flags - flag red- white - blue - white - red, proportioned 2:1:1:1:2.
Note that the funnel is identical to Mowinckel (NO) Brown (1951) has the
same colors, but proportions c. 4:1:1:1:4 for Wallem & Co., A/S, Bergen &
Hong Kong
Jarig Bakker, 8 January 2005
image by Jarig Bakker
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship
Companies, 1926 [9]
Haugesund - blue flag, white border; white "W".
Jarig Bakker, 22 Janurary 2004
The company was founded by Hakon Baron Waldemar Wrangell, a colourful character it seems, dates 1859-1942. The company survived his death and was at one point the third largest shipping company (transporting goods, herring fishery, and whaling) in town.
Vormedal Forlag shows a book cover where we see a thin border and not so thin initial. The 1928 German Flaggenbuch (Part II) [18] gives the same rendition as Brown 1926 [9] does.
Haugesund, a port in SW Norway, was indeed Wrangell’s business seat confirmed by skipet.no (houseflags no longer available).
The rather thick initial appears again but also a predecessor with a red field.
Wrangell dates listed by ‘Skipet’ are as follows: general dates, 1882-1988. ‘H.M. Wrangell’ 1882-1911, addition of ‘& Co.’ from 1911- 1914 then becoming ‘H.M. Wrangell & Co. AS’. Business terminated in 1988.
Jan Mertens, 6 May 2008The company was founded in 1882 by Haakon Magne Valdemar Wrangell (1859-1942), a shipowner from Haugesund also involved in whaling and herring export. He also served as mayor of Haugesund, president of the Norwegian shipowners' association and Member of Parliament. I cannot find any information that he was a baron, quite the contrary a history thesis notes he worked his way up from a meager background, though he might have started out as a poor nobleman (this not very likely as the nobility was abolished in Norway in 1821 anyway). However, he was a consul.
The company, known as H. M. Wrangell & Co. A/S from 1914 according to Skorsteinsmerker og rederiflagg [20], sold its last ship (oil tanker Corona) in 1979. Two flags are given for this company in the plates of Skorsteinsmerker og rederiflagg 1996 [19] and Skorsteinsmerker og rederiflagg 1999. The first one has a white bordered red field with a white W, the other one the same but with a blue field (still with white borders). No date is given for when the switch was made, so I cannot shed any light on whether this was in connection with the two partners entering the company. The two sources, are a bit vague on whether this happened in 1914 or earlier.
Concerning the thickness of the initial, this is probably very difficult to
establish exactly, possibly there may have been several versions in use over
the life span of the company.
Jan Oskar Engene, 7 May 2008
image by Ivan Sache, 18 July 2005
This particular shipping company flag reached via
http://www.cabinclass.com/dinnerinthediner/pages/archives/steamship/haan_01.htm
Jan Mertens, 2 July 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 4 February 2006
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World
[4]
Alesund - blue flag, red diamond outlined white; white
5-pointed star.
Jarig Bakker, 4 February 2006
The company J. Hagenæs Shipping AS is still in business
and the flag can be seen flying on the office building in Ålesund where the company
is based. From personal observations I would say the diamond is larger than in the
drawing Jarig sent: It touches the edges of the cloth.
Jan Oskar Engene, 5 February 2006
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 May 2017
I spotted this flag the same place on 18 April 2017 and I found the
company’s door plate, both displaying on blue a red lozenge with white
fimbriation nearly touching the edges. The blue colour was darker on the
doorplate but the perfect match on flag.
Klaus-Michael Schneider,
11 May 2017
image by Jarig Bakker, 12 September 2005
Source: Brown’s Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World, 1995 [4]
Bergen - swallowtailed triband RWR; in center red
disk, charged with intertwined "HS".
Jarig Bakker, 12 Seprember 2005
image by
Ivan Sache, 14 December 2013
Oslo - blue flag, white diamond, blue "B".
Jarig Bakker, 8 January 2006
Josef Nuesse's "Ships and Flags" website shows the
company's house flag (photo of an actual flag) with a square diamond that does
not reach the edges of the flag.
Source:
http://www.flagpole.de/reedereiflaggen/europa/nordeuropa/
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Ivan Sache, 14 December 2013
image by Jarig Bakker, 28 February 2006
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World [4]
Oslo - white flag, two narrow horizontal wavy
stripes; in center "H", all blue.
Jarig Bakker, 28 February 2006
image by Jarig Bakker, 27 December 2005
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World [4]
Oslo - swallowtail quartered per saltire white
and blue.
Jarig Bakker, 27 December 2005