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1770 illustration
Loughran (1979) shows "The flag of
the Dansk Asiatisk Compagnie was derived from the Danish national flag ... It
was distinguished from the Dannebrog by being swallowtailed, and defaced in the
center by arms which varied over the years. The two examples illustrated date
from 1770 and 1800 respectively."
Željko Heimer, 7 June 2004
1800 illustration
1802 illustration
Loughran (1979) shows a third flag
of this company, flown by the frigate 'Kronprinssen' of 1802, and is completely
different. This flag is rather a house flag - that was, I suppose, hoisted on
"mainmast" or some other suitable place, while the usual ensign was hoisted at
stern.
Željko Heimer, 7 June 2004
What was the activity of the Danish Asian Company?
Nozomi Kariyasu, 7 June 2004
Didn't they have treaty ports in China? The Danish flag is one of those shown on
the Shanghai International Settlement flag.
James Dignan, 8 June 2004
The state ensign defaced with the golden inscription "D. Ø. K." along the
horizontal crossbar and with a rectangular patch in the canton containing a
light blue top-towards-the-hoist slanted cabled anchor and in its lower hoist
corner letters "ØK".
Željko Heimer, 2 June 2004
image by Jarig Bakker, based on the British National Maritime Museum
The website of the National
Maritime Museum describes the house flag of "the house flag of Ostasiatiske
Kompagni A/S Det, Copenhagen. A white flag with a blue anchor placed diagonally
and fouled by a chain and the letters 'Ø. K.' below. The flag is made of a wool
and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn. The
design is printed.
Jarig Bakker, 23 August 2004
Ostasiatiske Kompagni A/S, Copenhagen: white, a blue fouled anchor placed in
a diagonal position (the flukes toward lower right), in the left lower corner
the blue letters Ø K. Two versions are shown on Josef Nüsse's
site under 'Flags', 'Danish Shipping Companies', 'Seite 6': first, the flag with
the letters nearer the anchor, which is bigger and has a chain rather than a
cable, second, said flag in a split Dannebrog's upper hoist corner and golden
letters D. Ø. K. in the cross's centre,
horizontally arranged.
Jan Mertens, 11 December 2003
Östasiatiske Kompagni. The 2nd flag mentioned by Jan has the company house
flag in the canton flying from a pole which is angled bendwise. This differs
from that shown in "Das große flaggenbuch" which only has a panel of the flag
and is defined as used by sailing vessels in overseas service. I suspect it may
have been used as an Ensign including for motor vessels judging by an
illustration of the "Selandia" 1912 in "Merchant Ships of the World in colour
1910-1929" by Laurence Dunn which has the houseflag flying from the mainmast and
what seems to be this 2nd flag as the Ensign from the stern.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 September 2004