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Rostock Tourist Ships (Germany)

Rostockerer Hafenrundfahrten

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Apr 2012

Rostock Tourist Ships
Käptn Brass
Blaue Flotte(Schütt)
Gelbe Flotte(Fahrgastschifffahrt Heckmann)
Warnow Personenschifffahrt
Weiße Flotte Rostock
Baltic Schiffahrt und Touristik GmbH Warnemünde

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Rostock tourist ships

All tourist ship companies are flying this jack, if there is a pole on the prow. The pennant is yellow with a black, statant griffin tongued red shifted to the hoist.
Source: I spotted this flag in Rostock-Warnemünde on 25 April 2011
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Apr 2012

Käptn Brass

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Feb 2007

Fahrgastschifffahrt Käptn Brass - Käptn (German slang for captain) Brass is a shipping company for passenger transports, especially for excursions of daytrippers. The company is located in Rostock-Warnemünde.
It is a white flag with blue horizontal stripes at both edges and a blue capital "M" in the centre of the flag. I have no idea, why there is an "M" in the flag, but nearly all shipnames of the company are beginning with an "M", perhaps the company has kept the flag of a former company, which existed already in times of the DDR.
Source: I spotted this flag on 8 December 2006 in Rostock-Warnemünde.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Feb 2007

Blaue Flotte

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Apr 2012
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Apr 2012

The company had been established in 1932 by Fritz Schütt. The company currently runs 4 vessels for 620 passengers. The owner Dieter Schütt, established the "blue fleet" (Blaue Flotte) in 1991 as a pool of the three existing companies of the Schütt family.
For further information click: here.
Fahrgastschifffahrt Th.&D. Schütt /Rostocker Personenschifffahrt Dieter Schütt have the same flag (see left image above). It is a blue flag. A white diamond containing a red capital "S" is touching the top and bottom edge.
Description of flag:

Rostocker Personenschifffahrt Olaf Schütt (see right image above) has a blue flag. A white diamond containing a red capital "S" is shifted to the fly. The canton shows the colours of the Hansa City of Rostock without griffin, i.e. blue (double height) over white over red. The canton has a thin white edge. Its height is 70% of total height.
Source: I spotted these flags in Rostock-Warnemünde on 25 April 2011
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Apr 2012

Gelbe Flotte

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Apr 2012

Fahrgastschifffahrt Heckmann (Gelbe Flotte/yellow fleet)
The only vessel is SELENE doing round trips through the basins of Rostock-Warnemünde port. For further information click: here.
Description of flag:
It is a yellow flag. At the hoist is a blue stripe approx 25% of total width and containing two white 8-point stars ordered vertically. In the centre of the yellow field is a blue, serifed capital "H" filling the field completely.
Source: I spotted this flag in Rostock-Warnemünde on 25 April 2011
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Apr 2012

Warnow Personenschifffahrt

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Apr 2012

Reinhard Kammel had had an apprenticeship in maintaining e-engines. He worked one year in Warnowwerft (dockyard) before he started seamanship in 1979 in tugboating, excavation projects and salvaging/rescue. He arose to the rank of a captain and had been made redundened in 1991. Then he went to Frisia in order to learn passenger shipping.
He owned his first ship HERTHA in 1992. Meanwhile the company runs three vessels. The company is located in Elmenhorst near Rostock.
For further information click: here.
The white flag is horizontally divided by two blue narrow stripes at top and bottom and a broad red stripe in the middle. In the centre is a shiled divided per bend into blue over white over red. In the centre is a white inescutcheon having an "invisible" white edge with the ownwers initials "RK" orderd bendily.
Source: I spotted this flag in Rostock-Warnemünde on 25 April 2011
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Apr 2012

Weiße Flotte Rostock

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Apr 2012

The company runs a car- and passenger ferry line across the mouth of river Warnow between Warnemünde and Hohe Düne.
Description of flag:
The blue flag is divided by a red bend sinister superimposed in the middle by a white anchor. In the blue fields are white italics "W"(hoist) and "F"(fly).
Source: I spotted this flag in Rostock-Warnemünde on 25 April 2011
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Apr 2012

Baltic Schiffahrt und Touristik GmbH Warnemünde

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 July 2019
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 July 2019

It is a one-vessel-company, based already in Lübeck. Its only ship had been built in 1959 as RÜM HART and sailed for Wyk auf Föhr based Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei Föhr-Amrum (W.D.R.) until 1982 on the line Dagebüll-Wyk-Amrum, occasionally on day trips to Helgoland, also from Husum or Tönning.
Between 1961 and 1974 there had been also sails to Denmark and Sweden. In 1971 and 1972 she was chartered by Reederei Cassen Eils on a line Büsum-Helgoland and 1976 by HADAG on a line Cuxhaven-Helgoland. In 1981/82 it was used on the line Hörnum- Helgoland bei WDR.
In 1982 the ship was sold and renamed. The new name was BALTICA. In the following years she was used on the so called "butter sails" (German: Butterfahrten) between Neustadt, Flensburg, Kollund and Kappeln by various owners. Between 1985 and 1999 she sailed on the line Flensburg-Gråsten-Kappeln. Since 1995 she belonged to Seetouristik Kappeln. In 1997 the new owner was Heinrich Böttcher from Lübeck, who organised Travemünde based butter sails. Due to changing duty free rules in Lübeck she was sold in 1999 to Baltic Schiffahrt und Touristik GmbH Warnemünde and runs harbour trips in Warnemünde, the seaport of Rostock. Since 2000 the home port of the ship is Lübeck.
The flag ( see left image above) is white and displays in fly two chevrons of yellow and blue pointing to the hoist and a dark blue inscription "BSTW".
A similar flag ( see left image above) is that one of Neustäädter Seetouristik, a short living company based in Neustadt (Holstein) and one of the previous owners of the BALTICA. The flag was white and displayed in fly two chevrons of yellow and blue pointing to the hoist and a blue italic "B".
Sources: German WIKIPEDIA and Josef Nüsse's webpage, furthermore I spotted this flag in Rostock-Warnemünde on 25 April 2011 and again on 19 October 2013 during the DGF meeting in Rostock-Warnemünde,
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 July 2019

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