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image by Jarig Bakker, 24 October 2005
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World
[4]
Landskrona - white flag, blue "SL".
Neale Rosanoski, 17 August 2006
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 17 August 2006
Operated the ferry "Dana Scarlett" Landskrona-Tuborg 1985-1994 originally as
the L-T Linjen changing to Scarlett Line A/B 1989 according to kommandobryggan
site. However Josef Nüsse [5] shows a table
flag of blue with very broad white letters and this is supported by the flag shown
flying by the ship on a postcard copy I hold.
Neale Rosanoski, 17 August 2006
image by Jorge Candeias, 6 March 1999
Another dubious flag. If it's a flag, then it would be white with green stripes
along the top and bottom and a very dark blue logo centered. The logo is composed
of what could be described as three interconnected tildes forming the letters
"SL"
Jorge Candeias, 6 March 1999
The flag is confirmed from the Josef Nüsse [5]
collection where he domiciles the company as being at Nacka. He also
shows another flag in the Sea-Link name
domiciled Malmö. From Lloyds I have located Rederi A/B Sealink at Stockholm
[1985], then being shown as Sea Link A/B at Nacka (1992) and finally Rederi
A/B Sea-Link at Malmö (1996) with all being the same according to Lloyds.
Neale Rosanoski, 5 August 2003
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 October 2007
Based in Stockholm with its own vessels post-World War 2 until
the end of the 1950s. The cap badge from Collectors Corner has a blue
flag with a shell proper over "SHELL" in yellow and is given under the
name of Svenska Shell.
Neale Rosanoski, 8 June 2007
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 12 March 2007
Lloyds currently shows this flag the alternative name of Rederiet Sjöfartsverket in
respect of the shipping. Josef Nüsse [5]
shows a blue swallowtail with a
yellow star emitting 10 rays which look white in his scan but may well
be yellow also, being above a yellow foul anchor. The yellow appears to have a greenish tinge to it but that
may be an optical illusion. As a Government department flag it
probably does not rank as a proper house flag and vessel photos so far
do not show their wearing it but if they ever do it would be as a
house flag equivalent as the Swedish flag is flown as an ensign. The
emblems on the flag differ from the Arms as shown on their website
www.sjofartsverken.se.
A version of these appears on the ship funnels
where the flag charges appear on a sky blue vertical oval ensigned
with a crown proper, the charges however being all in white. However
both ship funnel and flag anchors are "foul" whereas the website logos
do not show a cable attached.
Neale Rosanoski, 12 March 2007
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 2 November 2006
Presumably the state forestry was involved in shipping its
products in the 1950s and 1960s. As given by
US Navy 1961 [8],
Stewart 1963 [6]
and Brown 1978 the flag was white with a
red crown above a blue triangle bearing three yellow crowns [of 3
points], all being ensigned with "ROYAL" in blue in an arc.
Neale Rosanoski, 2 November 2006
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 24 November 2006
Shown in the Josef Nüsse [5] site as Swedish and based
Stockholm, which it may have been, it was actually a consortium
covering 4 nations through the Axel Axelson Johnson & Co. [Sweden],
Finska Ångfartygs Aktiebolaget [Finland],
Royal Mail Lines Ltd. [UK] and Flomerca Line
[Guatemala] operating in the 1970s and 1980s. The flag was white with gold and blue panels was
somewhat similar to that of the later German company TT Line GmbH &
Co.
Neale Rosanoski, 24 November 2006
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 October 2007
Formed in 1870 and absorbed into
Göteborgs Bogsering & Bärgnings A/B in 1977. The Collectors Corner cap
badge shows a blue swallowtail with a yellow circle bearing the black
letters "TB". www.tugboatlars.se shows a
slightly different version with the circle being outlined black which
appears to have originated from an illustration on a pamphlet.
Neale Rosanoski, 8 June 2007
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 12 March 2007
Operated in the 1950s and 60s with the flag
shown on the Collectors Corner cap badges being a white swallowtail with a
broad blue band bearing the white letters "SÅA" with the central "Å"
being larger.
Neale Rosanoski, 12 March 2007
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 24 November 2006
Out of Trelleborg with a single vessel bought in 1939
trading until around the mid 1950s with US Navy 1961 [8] showing a white
flag with a blue "E".
Neale Rosanoski, 24 November 2006
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 25 November 2006
Based in Stockholm and operating
until the early 1960s, the Collectors Corner cap badge shows a blue
flag with a yellow horizontal band and overall a yellow circle edged
red and charged with a red "S" and surmounting a red arrow angled
towards upper fly. The version shown by
US Navy 1961 [8] has the yellow band
wider and the emblem only on this.
Neale Rosanoski, 25 November 2006
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 October 2007
Unknown company based Stockholm shown by the Collectors
Corner cap badge as blue with a white horizontal band bearing a red
ring enclosing a red "S".
Neale Rosanoski, 8 June 2007
'Stavsnäs Båttaxi Skärgårdstrafik & Charter AB' or Båttaxi ("boat taxi") for short is a Swedish shipping company established at Stavsnäs/Stockholm offering transportation and charter cruises among the islands off Stockholm - as the name says. Website, Swedish version (the English version is rudimentary as yet): http://www.battaxi.se/
The six vessels operated by Båttaxi are presented under the ‘Taxibåtar’ heading (upper menu): they take between 12 and 196 people; a seventh, ice-going boat takes 29. The boats are used for local transportation but may be chartered as well.
‘Om oss’ (i.e. About us, see upper menu) informs us that Båttaxi was founded in 1967. Actually separate firms operate each a number of boats (I hope I fully understood the original text, helped by Google Translate): Cascade Rederi AB, Runmäro Marinsöm HB, and owners B. Soderholm and D. Karlsson.
Finally, Båttaxi explicitly mentions concern for the environment.
The house flag dominates the ‘Om oss’ page: white bearing a red rectangle with rounded corners (fimbriated red) and on the rectangle, suspended from its upper edge so to speak, a broad stylized anchor shank and flukes in white.
Jan Mertens, 3 January 2010
House Flag
image by António Martins
Logo flaglet
image by António Martins
The small ferry that took us to and fro [between Helsingborg in Sweden and Helsingør in Denmark, in August '98] belonged to Sundebus HH, and it's houseflag is a 2:3 blue over red per bend with an white uppercase sans serif "M".
Why an "M", I don't know but I can only speculate that this particular houseflag once belonged to a company called "M"-something which was renamed or bought or merged to Sundebus HH.
This may imply that house flags are somehow fixed for sea usage and it
is not that easy to change them, like company logos and such (like logo flags
for land use). This idea of mine (that might add some weight to the notion
that house flags are not that irrelevant) is reinforced by the fact
that this very same company Sundebus HH uses in land (poles by the company
peer, ticket office etc.) a completely different flag, consisting of a red
upper case serif "S" (for Sundebus), on a red bordered white square canton
of a 3:2 (and not 2:3!) white and green wavy background.
António Martins, 21 October 1999
Sundbusserne, with HH not part of the company name, rather representing the two cities the ferries are running between, Helsingør and Helsingborg, is no longer running Norwegian colours. They flagged over to the Swedish ship registry and they are running Swedish flag since September 2001. The Sundbusserne are however still a daughter company of the shipowning company A/S Moltzaus Tankrederi in Oslo. (Hence the M in the houseflag - M for Moltzau). Moltzaus no longer have any ships other than Sundbusserne.
At the Sundbusserne home page [http://www.sundbusserne.dk/]
you can find the Sundbusserne logo that seems to be the model of the speculated
secondary houseflag of Sundbusserne. As far as I know, it is no houseflag,
only a company logo.
Morten Øen, 20 December 2001
The parent company, is/was Moltzau & Christensen of Oslo who operated tankers
as Moltzau's Tankrederi A/S from 1930. It seems
that in the mid 1960s they started operating ferries having a 1st name of
"Sundbuss" through a subsidiary A/S Rendal. In the 1970s, no longer being
involved with tankers, the ferries were eventually placed in the name of A/S
Moltaus Tankrederi hence the oddity of the name compared with the trade. Around
1990 Sundbusserne A/S was set up at Helsingør, Denmark to act as managers
and by the web address it seems they are still located there even though the
vessels have changed registry. Unfortunately they no longer show in my
Lloyds shipowning groups so the current update of their activities was
helpful.
Neale Rosanoski, 5 August 2003
http://www.lauritz.com/no/auksjon/jonna-b-sundbusserne-henrik-pernille-litografisk-plakat/i3261004/
no~sbhh.gif hoisted on the prow on ferry
Hälsingborg-Helsingør in a lithography from 1958. (see also our page:
no~hfs1.html#sunbus)
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 February 2021
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 12 March 2007
Based in Halmstad the company was formed in 1989 operating
chemical tankers. In 2003 its last vessel was acquired by
Stolt-Nielsen who were ship managers at the time. The flag from the
Josef Nüsse site [5]
was yellow with narrow blue borders top and bottom
and on the field a blue diamond bearing a pair of yellow seahorses
facing one another.
Neale Rosanoski, 12 March 2007
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 2 November 2006
Operated in the 1950s with a flag of 7 horizontal
bands white and red and partly overall the red bands a white circle bearing
a blue "R". Based on a Collectors Corner cap badge and shown by US Navy 1961
[8].
Neale Rosanoski, 2 November 2006