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image by Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021
In 1866, Thomas Appleby (1839-1909) and Robert Ropner founded the shipping
company of Appleby, Ropner & Co. This partnership was dissolved in 1874, with
each partner establishing their own companies: T. Appleby & Co., and R. Ropner &
Co.
Thomas was chairman of the Hartlepool Gas Company, president of the South
East Durham Conservative Association and a J.P.
http://www.hhtandn.org/venues/3831/appleby-and-co
Hartlepool History
Then and Now
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the
house flag of Thos. Appleby & Co. (#877, p. 78) as quartered per saltire red and
white.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/43/
Ivan
Sache, 28 April 2021
image by Eugene Ipavec, 17 June 2009
The story of ‘Appleyard Lincoln & Co (Boatbuilders) Ltd’ (Ely, GB) is found at
http://www.orcharddelight.co.uk/index.html. Quote from ‘Appleyard & Lincoln’
section (upper menu):
“Appleyard’s Boathouse, built in 1877 at Ely in
Cambridgeshire, was taken over in 1946 by Harry Lincoln and became Appleyard
Lincoln & Co (Boatbuilders) Ltd. During the next sixteen years they built over a
thousand wooden constructed boats of which Orchard Delight was the last. Harry,
whose name was associated with innovation and quality, was a pioneer of Glass
Reinforced Plastic to which they switched in 1962. They went on to build over a
thousand GRP boats before he retired.”
A design of theirs, the Elysian,
would – after a slow start - prove to be very popular: it is easy to find these
boats described and offered on the internet.
Shown on the website as a
drawing, the wharf's pennant was yellow traversed by a green horizontal stripe;
near the hoist was placed a yellow lozenge, outlined green, containing green
initials ‘AL’ (no serifs).
Jan Mertens, 13 May 2009
image by Jarig Bakker, 30 November 2005
ARC Marine Ltd., Southampton - horizontal blue-white-blue flag; in center black
"ARC".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 30 November 2005
image by Ivan Sache, 27 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Arctic
Steam Fishing Co., Ltd. (#855, p. 77), a Grimsby-based company, as yellow with a
red star.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/42/
Ivan Sache, 27 April 2021
image by Ivan Sache, 21 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Argonaut
S.N. Co., Ltd. (B.C. Atkinson & Son) (#1, p. 37), a Middlesbrough-based company,
as blue with a white, cursive "A".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#2
Ivan Sache, 21 April 2021
image by Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Ariadne
Steamship Co., Ltd. (#971, p. 83), a London-based company, as light blue with a
darker blue cross, charged in the center with a slanted yellow anchor.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/48/
Ivan
Sache, 28 April 2021
image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of the
"Armenia" Steamship Company, Ltd. (B.B. Murrell & Co.) (#1861, p. 125), a West
Hartlepool-based company, as white with a red cross, in the respective quarters,
the red letters "W", "H", "&", and "Co"
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#90
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Armitage's Steam Trawling Co., Ltd. (#1835, p. 124), a Hull-based fishing
company, as blue with a red lozenge charged with a white seven-pointed star.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#89
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of R.T.
Arthurs & Co. (#1830, p. 124), a Glasgow-based shipping company, as
swallow-tailed, red with a white saltire charged in the center with a black "A".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#89
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
British Shipping lines: continued