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Joseph Nüsse shows on his website colour pictures of
several house flags of shipping companies. The site is a very good
source since it shows pictures of *real* flags. It is clear from his
website that Joseph served (and maybe still serves) in the merchant
navy and most probably regrets the decline in merchant shipping. The
website disclaimer says that most of the companies whose house flags
are shown there have gone out of business.
Ivan Sache, 15 September 2002
image located by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Apr 2012
The complete image shows the brigg ELITE from Blankenese (today Hamburg) in 1862.
There are the flags/pennnants hoisted:
-
foremast: white flag divided by red saltire (probably the houseflag)
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mainmast: red name pennant cotized white with ship’s name upon
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mizzenmast: Danish ensign with cypher
Probably the ship was trading with the mediterranian (cypher as distinguishing
mark to Knights of Malta, although those had been already
history then). Can somebody assist in
order to identify the houseflag?
Source: own photo shot in Aurich on 1 May 2009
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Apr 2012