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Bergen. Red swallowtail; at hoist white vertical
rectangle, charged with blue Maltese cross. Brown (1951) has the same flag for
Albert Schjelderup, Bergen
Jarig Bakker, 17 February 2005
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 March 2007
Maritime timetable images shoe Klaveness Line (A.F. Klaveness & Co. A/S, Oslo) having red swallowtail with broad blue horizontal edges, a large white letter `K' in the middle.
The firm was located at Sandefjord before moving to Kristiania (Oslo) in 1910. And then, of course, the on-line 1912 Lloyd's Flags & Funnels shows a rectangular flag (No. 734).
A letter of reference to Carrell & Co. (Greek ship repair company). This letter is dated 22 July 1969 whereas the Maritime Timetable image shows a schedule dated 1 April 1951.
So at some point between 1926 and 1951 the swallowtail was introduced.
Jan Mertens, 22 September 2006
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 March 2007
Oslo - triband BRB proportioned c. 1:3:1, white
"K".
Jarig Bakker, 30 Janurary 2004
image by Jarig Bakker
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship
Companies, 1926 [9]
Blue flag, white "AJM".
Jarig Bakker, 18 December 2004
Oslo - red flag, white 5-pointed star
Jarig Bakker, 2 February 2005
image by Ivan Sache
The original source:
http://www.borgestad.com/
The company was founded in 1904. It is based in Porsgrunn and operates 15
vessels, 5 of them being Borgerstad-owned. The flag is swallow-tailed,
horizontally divided white-blue-white (2:1:2) with a white shield outlined in
blue and charged with a blue B.
Ivan Sache, 30 November 2003