Bermuda - Houseflags of Shipping Companies (original) (raw)

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Atlantic Marine
Red Rose Navigation

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Atlantic Marine

image by Jarig Bakker, 3 October 2005

According to <www.amlp.bm>, Atlantic Marine LP is a member of the Schulte Group.
Schulte Group's site at <www.beschulte.de> show also the logo of this company.
Dov Gutterman, 27 October 2003

Atlantic Marine Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda - Spanish style blue-white-blue, in center blue disk interspersed with white lines.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 3 October 2005

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 January 2007

The main page of the Beschulte Group website as of 18 July shows only a white flag with the wavy disc of the center. This symbol is shared by other companies: Dorchester, Baltic Marine Gdynia and possibly others.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 January 2007

image by Eugene Ipavec, 23 June 2010

If we leave out the special case of the Muscovy Merchants, I believe the only house flag not shown on FOTW-ws is that of the Red Rose Navigation Co. Ltd (second row, central image):
http://www.allatsea.cx/images/memorabilia/Peter_Murphy_House_Flags2.jpg
This firm is briefly mentioned here (url followed by quote):http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/holt.htm
"In 1965 the Guinea Gulf Line with a subsidiary of Holt, the Red Rose Navigation Co. Ltd at Bermuda, was acquired by Elder Dempster Line Ltd..."
Elsewhere we learn that this company was established at Liverpool - just enter "bocna" under "Name" and click "SEARCH" (later click "VIEW"):http://www.hartlepoolbuilt.co.uk/form.html
I suppose Red Rose Navigation ('Bocna' was first named 'Rose of Lancaster' - also look at the funnel) moved to Bermuda for fiscal reasons. Certainly active 1958-1965 but no other ship found yet.
I find it hard to believe that the house flag was square but anyhow: dark blue field, large white disk bearing a red rose seeded and barbed green.
Jan Mertens, 21 June 2010