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![[National Institute of Water Atmospheric Research]](../images/n/nz~niwa).gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
National Institute of Water Atmospheric Research. A Crown research company set up in 1992 as a stand alone company. In 1996 it took over the vessels of the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries operating them through NIWA Vessel Management Ltd. The logo is best explained by visual methods with a rainbow format and dark blue lettering including the Maori version of the name and which is placed on the white superstructure but with the small lettering being in black and slightly slanted but not as much as the larger dark blue "NIWA".
![[National Institute of Water Atmospheric Research]](../images/n/nz~niwa.jpg)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
There is also a flag which I photographed in 1997
being flown by the "Tangaroa" in which the "rainbow" effect is simplified
colourwise. I am not absolutely sure of the colour of the
smaller lettering, which seems to be black in several shots, but in one photo
I got a dark blue look.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
The lettering is dark blue, if their logo is anything to go by (see
http://www.niwa.co.nz) - which tallies
from what I've seen of NIWA logos and the like before (though I've never seen
their flag before).
James Dignan, 7 November 2010
![[Neptune Trident Line]](../images/n/nz~n536.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
Neptune Trident Line. Operated by Neptune Shipping Agency Ltd. which was
formed in 1997 and then taken over by the Australian based Neptune Pacific
Line Pte. in 2007. By their website they had a blue flag with a white trident
in the fly placed at an angle but there is no
evidence of an actual flag.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
![[New Zealand Apple & Pear Marketing Board]](../images/n/nz~n304.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
New Zealand Apple & Pear Marketing Board. Formed in 1948 it was a Government
marketing board which in 1999 became the New Zealand Apple & Pear Board and
was then privatized in 2000 as Enza Ltd. and finally merged with another
company in 2003. Although not a shipping company it was involved as a
charterer and as such its logo was shown on the various ships funnels. Whilst
I cannot say that the flag was ever flown by a vessel, it is possible, and it
did exist as I took photos of it being flown at the Wellington Head Office in
1997 with its design of a white field incorporating a green pear and red
apple emblem together with the black "enza" trade mark.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
![[New Zealand Coaster Service Ltd houseflag]](../images/n/nz~nzcs.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 27 Jan 2006
New Zealand Container Services Ltd., Lyttelton - bright
blue - yellow - bright blue horizontal triband; in center bright blue
outlined arrow pointing towards the fly.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2006
New Zealand Coaster Service Ltd. The company, which operated 1991-1998, was
New Zealand Coaster Service Ltd. with "Service" in the singular and not New
Zealand Coaster Services Ltd. as shown in Brown 1995. The correct flag had the
arrow head closed off and the whole design was taken from the logo of N.Z.
Express Transport Ltd. who were one of the originally proposed shareholders,
pulling out before the service started but with their arrow symbol retained. If
one focuses on the yellow portion in the hoist it can be seen to form an "E"
though obviously it was not retained for this reason. On the funnel the arrow
pointed forward on both sides and in 1992 one of the partners commented that the
flag would probably be amended so that the arrow pointed to hoist but they
apparently never got around to that, The blue of the flag was a sky blue shade
unlike the funnel which was royal blue [including its arrow].
Neale Rosanoski,
16 October 2010
![[New Zealand Government]](../images/n/nz~m681.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
New Zealand Government. Government Departments and then Government Ministries
from the 1970s have been involved with shipping and although following the
normal procedure of sailing under Government Ensigns other flags have been noted
at times. How official they are I do not know but would imagine that they are
not covered by Acts of Parliament though Department/Ministry sanctioned.
In 1986 the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries had a vessel on charter and flew
a blue over green biband with overall towards fly a yellow circle bearing a blue
"a" in which the central horizontal arm did not touch the vertical arm and there
was a small nick in the vertical. Possibly the green
represented agriculture and blue fisheries but whilst "a" could also stand
for "agriculture" there was no way
an "f' for "fisheries" could be made out [this is as it was described to me
by reputable sources but unfortunately a promised slide copy was never
received so I only have the verbal description to work on].
![[New Zealand Government]](../images/n/nz~d383.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
In 1988 I
saw at Lyttelton being flown by the "Rapuhia", at that point under the
Marine & Fresh Water Science Oceanographic Institute being a division of the
Department of Scientific & Industrial Research division, a dark blue flag with a
white emblem of a simple 3 masted vessel with two double arcs top and bottom. From correspondence it turned out that a
close resemblance to the emblem had been sighted several years before in
Australia on the "Tangaroa" with a crew member stating that it belonged to
the DSIR.
![[New Zealand Government]](../images/n/nz~m655.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
In 1992 the new "Tangaroa", which at that point was under the
Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, was sighted with a royal blue flag with
three narrow white curving lines of descending thickness with in lower fly
the white slightly angled letters "MAF".
Proportions appeared to be 2x1. This was apparently the "Fisheries" flag with
"Agriculture" using a green version according to a pamphlet sent to an
Australian source in 1994 though this would not have been flown by a vessel.
It might not be thought that these flags qualify as house flags, but as
many our Government sections are now cost centres that are expected to make
profits perhaps there is a case.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
![[New Zealand Line Ltd.]](../images/n/nz~n293.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
New Zealand Line Ltd. Formed in 1974 as the state owned shipping line The Log
11/1990 gives a light blue flag with a Southern Cross constellation of 4 red
stars edged white in the hoist and the white letters "NZL" in the fly which were
slightly slanted. My memory is that the shade of blue was light. Loughran
1979 shows a slightly different version as regards positioning of the charges
and shows 6 pointed stars in error and also ascribes it to the Shipping
Corporation Of New Zealand Ltd. which is incorrect. The livery was for its first
two vessels, "NZ Waitangi" and "NZ Aorangi" which were replaced in 1978.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
![[New Zealand Refrigerating Co. Ltd.]](../images/n/nz~n561.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
New Zealand Refrigerating Co. Ltd. Dating from1889 it was known on the coast
from 1890 with its last vessel sold 1954. From The Log 11/1985 the flag was
white with the red letters "NZCL" in the corners and a blue "R" in the centre.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
![[New Zealand Sea Transport Ltd.]](../images/n/nz~n604.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
New Zealand Sea Transport Ltd. Sir Robert Owens of the Owens Group Ltd.,
involved mainly in trucking and shipping agency and stevedoring, also wished to
be a ship operator and so this company was set up to bareboat charter a vessel
in 1969. The venture was not a success and the ship was withdrawn in 1972. The
Log of 5/1990 shows a blue flag with a white "S" resting on small design having
a white base and black under-carriage style design though it is not known
exactly what it represented.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
image by Pete Loeser, 12 April 2022
Based on this photo.
According to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London: "The New Zealand Shipping Company was formed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1873 as a result of complaints about high freight rates... The passage times between London and New Zealand for sailing ships were between 74 and 100 days... In 1910 New Zealand shipping company took control of Canadian-Australian Line and...[added]...services between New Zealand, Australia and Canada... In 1916 P&O [an English shipping company] took over New Zealand shipping company [and ownership transfered to London] but the company continued to operate as before until 1973 when ownership of all ships was transferred to P&O Line and the separate existence of New Zealand Shipping Company ceased." Source: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London: Pope Collection)
For further information and flags see New Zealand Shipping Company.
Pete Loeser, 3 November 2010
![[New Zealand Steam Navigation Co.]](../images/n/nz~n599.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
New Zealand Steam Navigation Co. Conflicting dates given but operated
approximately 1850s to beginning of the 1870s in the coastal trade. The Log
5/1988 shows a diagonally quartered flag of white and red with the letters "NZSNCo."
but unfortunately does not give the colour of the letters in its B&W image.
Shown here as black they could well be the same as its replacement, the New
Zealand Steam Shipping Co. with blue letters on white and white letters on red.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
![[New Zealand Steam Shipping Co.]](../images/n/nz~n600.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
New Zealand Steam Shipping Co. Formed about 1870 it bought out the New Zealand
Steam Navigation Co. and lasted about ten years before liquidators were
appointed. It basically retained the livery of the previous company merely
altering the letters, and possibly their colours, as on its diagonally quartered
flag of white and red the letters "NZCSC" they show as blue on the white and
white on the red being given by The Log 11/1994 and also shown on a painting of
their vessel "Wellington" displayed at the Wellington Maritime Museum in 1993.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
![[New Zealand Steel Mining Ltd.]](../images/n/nz~n664.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
New Zealand Steel Mining Ltd. According to Sea Breezes 6/1979 a company of this
name operated an ex-trawler servicing vessels loading iron sand off the Taranaki
coast. Probably the reference should have been New Zealand Steel Ltd. [who were
a forerunner] with these operations presumably taking place from around the
early 1970s. The flag as given by this source was white with a blue circle
enclosing a series of black dots.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
![[New Zealand Stevedoring & Wharfingering Co. Ltd.]](../images/n/nz~n670.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
New Zealand Stevedoring & Wharfingering Co. Ltd. Not a shipping company as such
but in the industry and if agents and brokers can figure in these pages why not
a stevedore especially as it started as a division of Union Shipping Group in
1986 as New Zealand Stevedoring Co. Ltd. changing name in 1987. In 1989 it was
sold to American interests being renamed back to New Zealand Stevedoring Ltd.
and going into liquidation in 1998. They had a table flag of 1x2 proportions of
white with a logo of a large squat "S" surmounted by the smaller "nz" edged by
the field and below these the small lettering "n.z. stevedoring" all in dark
blue and all lettering apart from the large "S" being slightly angled. I never
saw a proper flag flying though there may have been examples at the H.O in
Auckland in the Union Shipping building.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
![[Northern Steam Ship Co. Ltd.]](../images/n/nz~n662.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
Northern Steam Ship Co. Ltd. Formed in 1881 with the last vessel sold in 1976,
its flag was blue with white saltire between the red letters "NSSCo" with the
"o" enhanced to be seen in Lloyds 1904, Stewart 1953, 1957 & 1963 and Sea
Breezes 6/1979.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
![[Northern Union Steamboat Co. Ltd.]](../images/n/nz~n580.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
Northern Union Steamboat Co. Ltd. Operated on the Kaipara River from
approximately 1899-1907 with a white flag with a red cross and black letters "NUSCo."
from The Log 8/1986.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
![[Northern Wairoa Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd.]](../images/n/nz~n655.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
Northern Wairoa Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd. Formed in 1902 it appears to have
been involved in shipping between 1910 and 1932 with the company itself merging
in the late 1980s. Sea Breezes 6/1979 and The Log 8/1997 give the flag as white
with a blue cross between the red letters "NWDCo".
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
![[North Westland Shipping Co. Ltd.]](../images/n/nz~n570.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
North Westland Shipping Co. Ltd. Formed 1950 and operated coastal until 1955.
From The Log 5/1986 a red pennant with the white letters "NWSC".
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010
